Well attestedNamed from the place
Mersey sound
noun · first attested 20th century
A river named the sound of Liverpool, then named a bestselling poetry book.
The bright guitar and harmony pop made by Liverpool groups in the early 1960s.
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River Mersey
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Mersey sound
The Mersey runs through Liverpool, and journalists covering the city's beat groups reached for the river rather than the city, also coining Merseybeat. The label was borrowed in 1967 for an anthology of Liverpool poets that sold in numbers almost unheard of for poetry.
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