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Liverpool hosts several music festivals each year which celebrate and represent the different cultures within the city. Africa Oye [6] is the UK's largest free festival of African music. Each year the Liverpool Irish Festival [7] is held featuring mostly folk music celebrating the cultural links between Liverpool and Ireland. Liverpool contains ...
Peter Beckett is an English musician and songwriter who has written songs for many prominent recording artists, his own bands and solo work, and for several films. He is likely best known as the lead singer and guitarist for 1970s soft rock group Player, which scored a U.S. number 1 hit in 1977 with "Baby Come Back" Buster
They continued to play local clubs and venues around Liverpool for the rest of 1960, but at the end of the year Wallington and Hughes decided to leave. [ 3 ] At the start of 1961, the group reformed using the name Howie Casey and the Seniors, with Frank Wibberley on drums, and Wilkie sharing vocals with Freddie Fowell.
The word "Liverpool" has been added to distinguish them from other bands who subsequently used the name.) Unlike many of their Liverpool contemporaries , they specialised in a Chicago blues / Muddy Waters / Bo Diddley / Bobby Bland style of rhythm and blues - a genre of music which was more popular in Southern England at the time, led by the up ...
In 2009, "The Liverpool Barrow Boys", from Songs Spun in Liverpool, was included in Topic Records 70-year anniversary boxed set Three Score and Ten as track 19 on the sixth CD. [ 11 ] The surviving members of the group, often with bass player/musical director John McCormick, continued playing at various venues such as Exeter, Buxton, London ...
For a while that same year he became the in-house session drummer for Apple Music and is notable on a couple of songs on Jackie Lomax's album, Is This What You Want?. [8] Still wanting to be in a group, in 1969 he joined the strange poetry band, The Liverpool Scene , and still working for Apple he did sessions for Kiki Dee and Billy Preston ...
David Fairclough: footballer, Liverpool F.C., one of the six Liverpool-born players to win the 1977 European Cup Final and 1978 European Cup Final Emily Fairn : actor William Fawcett (1763–1844): engineer who commissioned the William Fawcett paddle steamer, the first ship operated by P&O shipping line , and the SS Royal William , the first ...
Jimmy Campbell (4 January 1944, Kirkby, Liverpool – 12 February 2007, Liverpool) was an English musician and songwriter from Liverpool, England. [1] He was a member of Merseybeat groups The Kirkbys, The 23rd Turnoff, and Rockin' Horse, as well as releasing three solo albums.