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The Liverbirds: Our Life in Britain's First Female Rock 'n' Roll Band

by Mary McGlory and Sylvia Saunders - £20.00  Faber and Faber (2024)
hardback    ISBN 13: 9780571377022 | ISBN 10: 0571377025

The little-known success story of four working class girls who formed ‘the female Beatles’ in 1960s Liverpool.
 
In the early ‘60s, four friends from Liverpool formed a band. But this is not the ‘fab four’ story we know...
 
Mary, Sylvia, Valerie and Pamela – also known as The Liverbirds – were one of the world’s first all-female rock’n’roll bands. At an early gig, backstage at the Cavern Club, a young John Lennon told them that ‘girls don’t play guitars’. But they took that as a challenge. Despite the early scepticism, they won over tough crowds, toured stadiums, recorded two hit albums, and played with the Kinks, Rolling Stones and Chuck Berry – all in the space of just five years.
 
Now, the two surviving members of the band tell their incredible story in full for the first time – capturing a lost era of liberation and rock’n’roll, as they thrived in the vibrant Merseybeat music scene and formed a friendship that has endured through the decades.

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