Sixties
City presents
a wide-ranging series of
articles on all aspects of the Sixties, penned by the creator of the iconic
60s music paper Mersey
Beat
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Sixties
City presents
a wide-ranging series of
articles on all aspects of the Sixties, penned by the creator of the iconic
60s music paper Mersey
Beat
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 There are many more film features by Bill Harry - see the Article Index page  |
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there is a strong British presence in the chart, including the 'James Bond'
series of films, epics such as ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and ‘Dr Zhivago’, the
science-fiction classic ‘2001, A Space Odyssey’ and historical dramas such
as ‘A Man For All Seasons.’ An analysis of the trends of the decade show the largest category of films represented is that of the big-scale musical. The Fifties had seen an upsurge of major epics to lure viewers away from the burgeoning television influence. That fight seems to have been abandoned during the Sixties, although a handful of epics are present. The 60s also saw the final round of movies using the Second World War as their theme. Interest in that particular war waned during the succeeding decade and the 80s saw the large-scale introduction of films concerning the war in Vietnam. The traditional American Western also declined in the Sixties, despite a short burst of interest in the 'spaghetti western' and virtually vanished in the following decades. Film-going tastes were to change and future audiences were fed a diet of action-adventure, science-fiction and cops-and-robbers movies. |
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Bill Harry attended the Liverpool College of Art with Stuart Sutcliffe and John Lennon and made the arrangements for Brian Epstein to visit The Cavern, where he saw The Beatles for the first time. Bill was a member of 'The Dissenters' and the founder and editor of 'Mersey Beat', the iconic weekly music newspaper that documented the early Sixties music scene in the Liverpool area and is possibly best known for being the first periodical to feature a local band called 'The Beatles'. He has worked as a high powered publicist, doing PR for acts such as Suzi Quatro, Free, The Arrows and Hot Chocolate and has managed press campaigns for record labels such as CBS, EMI, Polydor. Bill is the critically acclaimed author of a large number of books about The Beatles and the 60s era including 'The Beatles Who's Who', 'The Best Years of the Beatles' and the Fab Four's 'Encyclopedia' series. He has appeared on 'Good Morning America' and has received a Gold Award from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors. |
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