Apart from the Beatles ..Liverpool produced some great artists in the early 60's ..featuring Gerry and The Pacemakers, The Merseybeats, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Big Three, The Fourmost, The Searchers, Billy J Kramer, Cilla Black, Rory Storm and The Hurricanes and The Quarry Men (The Beatles ..before The Beatles) and finally Gerry singing Ferry Across The Mersey !! Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music genre that developed, particularly in and around Liverpool, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The genre melded influences from British and American rock and roll, rhythm and blues, skiffle, traditional pop and music hall. No copyright infringement intended. All shared from You Tube with thanks.