Bill Harry
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William Harry is a British journalist who founded Mersey Beat, a newspaper of the early 1960s focused on the Liverpool music scene. Harry had previously started various magazines and newspapers, such
The Liverpool College of Art at 68 Hope Street, Liverpool, which Harry, Lennon and Sutcliffe all attended
The original Mersey Beat office was at 81a Renshaw Street, Liverpool. (green shop front on the right)
Brian Epstein
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Brian Samuel Epstein was an English music entrepreneur who managed the Beatles from 1961 until his death in 1967.
Bill Harry
…edited the paper in a small attic office above a wine merchant's shop at 81a Renshaw Street, Liverpool. Harry arranged for the future Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, to see them perform a lunchtime concert at the Cavern Club on 9 November 1961. Epstein subsequently asked Harry to create a national music paper, the…
Epstein receiving the Edison Award for the Beatles at the Grand Gala du Disque 1965
Commemorative plaque at Epstein's birthplace, 4 Rodney Street, Liverpool
The telegram that Epstein sent to Mersey Beat newspaper in Liverpool to announce that he had secured the Beatles their first recording contract
Commemorative plaque in Argyll Street, Soho, London