Tag Archives: The Roadrunners

By legal rights, if skill were a concern, the Roadrunners will be remembered alongside such 1960s Uk blues clothes as the Rolling Rocks, the Animals, as well as the Pretty Things. At least, they’d have already been doing the type of lucrative concertizing in North European countries that performers Alexis …

In 1962 George Harrison, time for Liverpool following a couple of days in London, told fellow music artists, ‘I’ve heard this great group in London, the Rolling Rocks. They’re almost as effective as the Roadrunners.’ The regional satisfaction was justified. Motivated by Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf and acquiring their …

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 …