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Bill Harry....Bigger than The Beatles
Special thanks to Bill Harry for inviting me to the book launch to take these photographs..
It was a great evening that everybody enjoyed..
Thank you very much Bill.

Bill Harry..Bigger than The Beatles...

Photos taken at the launch of Bills new book Thursday 27th August 2009.
At The Beatles Story..Albert Dock.


The write up below is taken from Peter Grants Liverpool Echo piece about the book..
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That prolific author Bill Harry's been at it again.
The writer who gave us the Mersey Beat newspaper has a new book out next month called Liverpool - Bigger than the Beatles.
Bill was one of the first people to publish the work of his mate John Lennon.
The two were part of a litte literary group called The Dissenters.
This latest work is a lively, fact-filled, no-nonsese look at how people can sometimes overlook the fact that we had already been a musical city before the Fab Four put us on the global map.
We had more Christian bands, black music, folk, country, poets, girl singers than any othewr city: we had it all .
We still do.
But there were also the venues, the colourful promoters and the disc jockeys.
No wonder we are called the Capital of Pop by the Guinness Book of Records.
Bill will be in Liverpool next month to promote the book so look out for one of his talks and signing sessions.
The great factior about this partiuclar anthology is that Bill knew most of the peple in it not just as a writer but also when he became a record company supremo.
Still Scouse too and proud of it...
Peter Grant..2009.
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Bill listens on as Billy Kinsley recollects the Mersey Beat days...Ken Rogers who published Bill's new book is on the right.74 views
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The Casbah coffee club reproduced at The Beatles Story Albert dock72 views
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The Casbah coffee club reproduced at The Beatles Story Albert dock63 views
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Frank Hessy's music shop reproduced at The Beatles Story Albert dock69 views
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Kaiserkeller Hamburg reproduced at The Beatles Story Albert dock59 views
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Bill Harry's Mersey Beat office reproduced at The Beatles Story Albert dock56 views
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Quarry Men exhibit at The Beatles Story Albert dock55 views
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Steve Aldo gives speech about Mersey Beat days to Ken Rogers.54 views
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Joey Bower of the Fourmost tells the audience a few of his Mersey Beat memories.55 views
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Left click to enlarge all pics113 viewsVirgina with Steve Aldo and Joe Flannery, who managed numerous acts from Lee Curtis to Beryl Marsden.
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104 viewsDave Ferguson reads the evenings Liverpool Echo Mersey Beat supplement..Dean Sullivan centre pic having the yarn
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Left click to enlarge101 viewsCharlie and Thelma Landsborough
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103 viewsBilly Kinsley of The Merseybeats
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Left click to enlarge109 viewsL-R..Billy Kinsley, Bill Harry, The Beatles story founder Mike Byrne..Wally Shepard Chairman of The Merseycats and Beatles Historian Spencer Leigh
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93 viewsBill's opening speech
Bill with his award from Merseycats Wally Shepard and Dave Ferguson.jpg
95 viewsBill recieves special award from Merseycats Wally Shepard and Dave Ferguson
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The Beatles Story entrance at the Albert dock53 views
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Wally Shepard, Chairman of Mersey Cats presents Joey Bower, former member of the Fourmost with a special award.54 views
   
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