Scouse Proud: Liverpool - Bigger than the Beatles

That prolific author Bill Harry's been at it again.
The writer who gave us the Mersey Beat newspaper has a new book out next month called Liverpool - Bigger than the Beatles.
Bill was one of the first people to publish the work of his mate John Lennon.
The two were part of a litte literary group called The Dissenters.
This latest work is a lively, fact-filled, no-nonsese look at how people can sometimes overlook the fact that we had already been a musical city before the Fab Four put us on the global map.
We had more Christian bands, black music, folk, country, poets, girl singers than any othewr city: we had it all .
We still do.
But there were also the venues, the colourful promoters and the disc jockeys.
No wonder we are called the Capital of Pop by the Guinness Book of Records.
Bill will be in Liverpool next month to promote the book so look out for one of his talks and signing sessions.
The great factior about this partiuclar anthology is that Bill knew most of the peple in it not just as a writer but also when he became a record company supremo.
Still Scouse too and proud of it,
Bigger than The Beatles (Trnity Mirror, £8.99)