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Les Chadwick

Les Chadwick was the bassist for Gerry & the Pacemakers. Blessed John Leslie Chadwick in Liverpool in 1943, he reached his teenagers amid the skiffle increase. He was a boyhood friend of George Harrison — both had been guitar aficionados. Chadwick eventually connected up with Gerry Marsden and Freddie Marsden …

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Tommy Quickly

Tommy Quickly is actually known for just two things: he was managed by Beatles overseer Brian Epstein, and were able to record a Lennon-McCartney composition, “Suggestion of My Tongue,” which the Beatles hardly ever got around to launching themselves. Among Lennon-McCartney’s slightest quantities — it had been downright wimpy, actually …

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Jim McCarty

Wayne McCarty was among the founding users of one from the seminal Uk Invasion organizations, the Yardbirds. After departing the group, he created the progressive rock and roll clothing Renaissance with Yardbirds vocalist Keith Relf. McCarty remaining Renaissance in 1973; he published materials for Dave Berry and Dave Clark, amongst …

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George Harrison

Nicknamed “the Calm Beatle” on the height of Beatlemania, George Harrison do indeed appear somewhat reserved set alongside the various other members from the Fab Four. He preferred wry wit to Ringo Starr’s clowning, and he hardly ever indulged in either John Lennon’s penchant for controversy or Paul McCartney’s crowd-pleasing …

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Mike Byrne

b. Michael Alexander Byrne, 10 January 1943, Liverpool, Britain. Byrne, an apprentice tailor, spent his lunchtimes on the Cavern membership in Liverpool. He sang and performed bass in his first group, Mike AS WELL AS THE Thunderbirds, and worked with many 60s Liverpool rings like the Roadrunners. Probably the most …

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Cilla Black

Who was the next biggest-selling music superstar to emerge from Liverpool following the Beatles? It wasn’t Gerry & the Pacemakers or Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, nor was it the Searchers. It had been Cilla Dark, a onetime coat-check female in the Cavern Membership who was simply still understanding …

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