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Photographs by kind permission of Beryl Marsden

The ‘Star Club’, Hamburg, Germany.

Beryl started singing at the age of 15 with The Undertakers and Farons Flamingos. She was a ‘Pint-sized’ rock ‘n’ roller, Liverpool’s answer to Brenda Lee and considered the best female singer on the Mersey Beat scene. Her manager was Joe Flannery and she appeared with his brothers group Lee Curtis & the All Stars.

At the age of 16 Beryl appeared at the Star Club in Hamburg, having to obtain a special licence to be able to perform. Her first record ‘I Know’ was released by Decca in 1963 and was recorded in the style local audiences were used to hearing. Her second record, ‘When The Lovelight Starts Shinning Through His Eyes’ was a poor follow up, had someone at Decca persuaded her to change her style? Tony Stratton-Smith became her new manager and she had two singles released on the Columbia label, ‘Who You Gonna’ Hurt’ in October 1965 and ‘Music Talk’ in December 1965. In early 1966 Beryl joined Rod Stewart, Peter Green, Peter Bardens, Dave Ambrose and Mick Fleetwood in the group Shotgun Express, releasing just the one record ‘I Feel The Whole World Turn Around’ . Beryl returned to Liverpool and joined Paddy Chambers in the soul band Sinbad before returning and finally settling in London where she discovered Buddhism, becoming District Leader for the SGI UK Buddhism organisation. During this time she became a close friend of Sandie Shaw, a top female singer from the ‘sixties’.

A new Beryl Marsden CD is to be released in the new year titled ‘One Dream’, I have had permission from LoneBoy Records to add 2 pre-release tracks from the CD ‘Baby It’s You’, (available as a single 15th January 2007) and ‘To Love Somebody’, both superb examples of this very talented artist . . . . Beryl is back!