A few bands can have their original master tapes mucked about with to offer a new spin. The Beatles have become the wallet-busting exemplars. However, with most of their Sixties contemporaries, such ...

Chart-topping Merseyside band The Merseybeats had a string of hits in the 1960s including I Love You, Yes I Do; Wishin’ and Hopin’; and Sorrow. Liverpool-born lead singer and guitarist Tony Crane MBE, ...

Viv Hardwick talks to founder member of The Merseybeats, Tony Crane, about the fateful day his band lost the chance to record Lennon and McCartney songs. WHEN the Merseybeats walked away from a ...

The Merseybeats-a rock group that formed in Liverpool, England, in the early 1960s-were very much a part of the scene that led to the British Invasion, but for whatever reason, they weren't part of ...