Well attestedNamed from the place
Merseybeat
noun · first attested 1961
The genre borrowed its name from a local newspaper before the newspaper's name meant a genre.
The guitar-based pop sound of Liverpool groups in the early 1960s.
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- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
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- 1961
- Part of speech
- noun
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River Mersey
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Merseybeat
Bill Harry founded the Liverpool music paper Mersey Beat in July 1961, punning on the river that runs through the city and on musical beat. When Liverpool groups reached the national charts in 1963, the press transferred the word to the sound. Sailors returning to the port are often credited with bringing American records into the city ahead of the rest of Britain.
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