Album DescriptionThis essential 2-CD set explores the music of the Merseybeat phenomenon, focusing on the major players, The Beatles, of course, but also Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Big Three, The Searchers, The Undertakers, and The Swinging Blue Jeans among many others. These are all brought together with a welter of cult classics and intriguing oddities. Incorporating all strands of the scene, Merseybeat gives equal space to the beat merchants, the R&B bands, the mods, the rockers, the girl groups and the balladeers to come up with the ultimate primer of a movement that effectively kick-started modern British music. Castle Music. 2006.