The Liverbirds From Merseyside To Hamburg - The Complete Star Club Recordings (CD)

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The Liverbirds: From Merseyside To Hamburg - The Complete Star Club Recordings (CD)

(ACE Records) 29 tracks, the complete Star Club recordings 1965/66 with a 16 page color booklet.

The Liverbirds were not unique, but they were certainly unusual. The male groups of the Merseybeat era were ten a penny. Of the 400 Liverpool combos listed by Spencer Leigh in his book Let’s Go Down The Cavern, less than a handful are female. The fact that the Liverbirds played their own instruments made them doubly rare, even more so on a national and international level.

Although they were from Liverpool, as photographs suggest (at a quick glance they could almost be mistaken for the Pretty Things or the Stones) musically the Liverbirds had more in common with the R&B-influenced bands of the South East than your typical Merseybeat group.

So overwhelming was the competition from their local male counterparts that the group found gigs difficult to come by until Manfred Weissleder entered the picture. Weissleder owned the Star-Club in Hamburg, the Beatles' old stomping ground, and was always on the lookout for new talent.

The Liverbirds had a lot to prove – not least their newly acquired nickname die Weiblichen Beatles (the Female Beatles) – but after a shaky start they soon settled in, cranking up the volume and winning over the tough Star-Club crowd with their repertoire of mainly Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry numbers. The club’s audience was known for its contingent of female groupies, but even they grew to accept and admire the group. Duly impressed, Weissleder offered them a recording contract on his Star-Club label. The girls ended up moving to Hamburg permanently.

What the Liverbirds might have lacked in musical expertise, they more than made up for with youthful dynamism, knocking out the songbooks of Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry in particular with a compelling punkish naivety often found wanting in the recordings of the their male contemporaries.

As their celebrity grew, the Liverbirds toured all over Germany, Switzerland and Denmark, sharing a bill with their hero Chuck Berry in Berlin. Usually their sets would include several of his songs, but they were told not to play them that night. Ignoring the instruction, the group launched into ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, prompting Berry’s manager to rush the stage demanding that they stop. They carried on playing regardless.

Barring a single issued on US Philips in 1965 and the three tracks featured on Ace’s “Destroy That Boy: More Girls With Guitars” compilation of 2009, “From Merseyside To Hamburg: The Complete Star-Club Recordings” marks the first-ever release of the Liverbirds’ repertoire outside of their adoptive Germany.

By Mick Patrick

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Album titlle: From Merseyside To Hamburg - The Complete Star Club Recordings (CD)
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Label Big Beat Records
EAN: 0029667429023
weight in Kg 0.107

Liverbirds, The - From Merseyside To Hamburg - The Complete Star Club Recordings (CD) CD 1
01	Talking About You	The Liverbirds
02	Bo Diddley Is A Lover	The Liverbirds
03	He's Something Else	The Liverbirds
04	Long Tall Shorty	The Liverbirds
05	He's About A Mover	The Liverbirds
06	You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At The...	The Liverbirds
07	Johnny B Goode	The Liverbirds
08	Mona	The Liverbirds
09	Road Runner	The Liverbirds
10	Diddley Daddy	The Liverbirds
11	Money (That's What I Want)	The Liverbirds
12	Got My Mojo Working	The Liverbirds
13	Hands Off	The Liverbirds
14	Too Much Monkey Business	The Liverbirds
15	Before You Accuse Me	The Liverbirds
16	Leave All Your Old Loves In The Past	The Liverbirds
17	Shop Around	The Liverbirds
18	It's Got To Be You	The Liverbirds
19	Peanut Butter	The Liverbirds
20	Oh No Not My Baby	The Liverbirds
21	It's So Exciting	The Liverbirds
22	He Hardly Ever Calls Me Honey Anymore	The Liverbirds
23	Loop De Loop	The Liverbirds
24	Love Hurts	The Liverbirds
25	For Your Love	The Liverbirds
26	Around And Around	The Liverbirds
27	Down Home Girl	The Liverbirds
28	Heatwave	The Liverbirds
29	Why Do You Hang Around Me	The Liverbirds

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The Liverbirds: From Merseyside To Hamburg - The Complete Star Club Recordings (CD)

Article properties: The Liverbirds: From Merseyside To Hamburg - The Complete Star Club Recordings (CD)

Interpret: The Liverbirds

Album titlle: From Merseyside To Hamburg - The Complete Star Club Recordings (CD)

Genre Beat

Artikelart CD

Label Big Beat Records

EAN: 0029667429023