ProbableNamed from the place
Liverpool sound
noun · first attested 1960s
Merseybeat by another name, exported worldwide by four of its practitioners.
The bright, guitar-led beat music made by Liverpool groups in the early 1960s.
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Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- ProbableThe conventional story is likely, with caveats.
- Attested
- 1960s
- Part of speech
- noun
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Liverpool
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Liverpool sound
Dozens of Liverpool bands, the Beatles among them, played a fast guitar style that the press labeled the Liverpool sound around 1963. The romantic explanation, that merchant sailors carried rare American records home to the port, is popular locally but hard to prove.
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