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# Bill Harry

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Bill Harry is an English author. He went to Liverpool College of Art with John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe. Using the name the Dissenters, they promised to make Liverpool famous with Lennon's music, Sutcliffe's paintings and Harry's writing.

Bill created the phrase "Mersey Beat". He created a newspaper with that name in July 1961 to publicise the Beatles and the Liverpool music scene. He got Brian Epstein to go to the Cavern and see the Beatles for the first time. He also gave Cilla Black her name. He was the first person ever to write about the Beatles.

Over the years, he has been on over 400 television and radio shows in Britain, America, Europe and Asia. Shows he has been on include Good Morning, Good Morning America, BBC News, Sky News, CNN, ITV and many television documentaries and movies about the Beatles. The British Council had him represent them for their Beatles exhibiticons in Hong Kong. Henry has also appeared as a guest at Beatles conventions in Britain, Europe and America.

Henry moved to London in 1966 when he was a music journalist for Weekend Magazine and columnist for the Fleetway magazines Marilyn and Valentine.

He was given an award by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors for everything he had done for the music business in his lifetime.

## [edit] Artists worked with

In London, Henry worked with many entertainers. His job as their press officer was to deal with the media for the people he worked for.

- The Kinks
- The Hollies
- Pink Floyd
- Ten Years After
- Jethro Tull
- David Bowie
- Led Zeppelin
- The Beach Boys
- Procol Harum
- Blodwyn Pig
- Chicken Shack
- Free
- Mott the Hoople
- Stone the Crows
- the Pretty Things
- Suzi Quatro
- Hot Chocolate
- Cockney Rebel
- Bill Kenwright
- Alexis Korner
- Nazareth
- Supertramp
- the Electric Prunes
- Kim Wilde
- Dave Prowse (Darth Vader in Star Wars).

## [edit] Books writen by Henry

- Mersey Beat: The Beginning of the Beatles (Omnibus Press)
- Arrows (Everest Books)
- Heroes of the Spaceways (Omnibus Press)
- the Beatles Who’s Who (Aurum Press)
- the Book of Lennon (Aurum Press)
- The Book of Beatles Lists (Javelin Books)
- Ask Me Why: The Beatles Quizbook (Javelin Books)
- the Beatles (Beatles City)
- Beatlemania: The Beatles on Film (Virgin Books)
- Paperback Writers: the Beatles in Print (Virgin Books)
- Beatles for Sale (Virgin Books)
- The McCartney File (Virgin Books)
- Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Atalanta Press)
- The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopaedia (Virgin Books)
- The Encyclopaedia of Beatles People (Blandford Press)
- The Beatles Encyclopaedia (Revised edition) (Virgin Books)
- The Best Years of the Beatles (Headline)
- The John Lennon Encyclopaedia (Virgin Books)
- The Paul McCartney Encyclopaedia (Virgin Books)
- The George Harrison Encyclopaedia (Virgin Books)
- The Ringo Starr Encyclopaedia (Virgin Books)
- Whatever Happened To… (Blandford Press)
- The British Invasion (Chrome Dreams)

## [edit] External links

- Bill Harry's story on Mersey-beat.com
- The Beatles and Mersey Beat by Bill Henry

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