Bill Harry

**Bill Harry** is an English author, from Liverpool. He went to college with John Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe, who were members of The Beatles. They promised to make Liverpool famous with Lennon's music, Sutcliffe's paintings and Harry's writing. They did not get far together, but each member later became well-known.

Harry founded _Mersey Beat_, a newspaper about the local music scene in Liverpool, in 1961. He was the first person to write news articles about the Beatles.

Over the years, Harry has been on over four hundred 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 exhibitions in Hong Kong. Harry has also been a guest at Beatles conventions in Britain, Europe and America.

Harry 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 has done for the music business in his lifetime.

## Artists worked with

In London, Harry worked with many entertainers. His job as their publicist was to deal with the media.
- 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
- David Prowse (Darth Vader in _Star Wars_).

## Books by Bill Harry

- _Arrows : The Official Story_ Everest Books (1976)
- _Mersey Beat: The Beginnings of The Beatles_ Omnibus Press (1977)
- _The Beatles Who's Who_	Aurum Press (1982)
- _Beatlemania_	Virgin Books (1984)
- _Paperback Writers_	Virgin Books (1984)
- _The Book of Lennon_	Aurum Press (1984)
- _Ask Me Why_	Javelin Books (1985)
- _Beatles For Sale_	Virgin Books (1985)
- _The Book of Beatle Lists_	Javelin Books (1985)
- _The McCartney File_	Virgin Books (1986)
- _Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band_	Atalanta Press (1987)
- _The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia_	Virgin Books (1992)
- _Jan Olofsson: My 60s_     Taschen (1994)
- _The Encyclopedia of Beatles People_ Blandford Press (1997)
- _The Best Years of The Beatles_     Headline (1997)
- _Whatever Happened to ..._     Cassell     (1999)
- _The Beatles Encyclopedia: Revised and Updated_ Virgin Books (2000
- _The John Lennon Encyclopedia_	Virgin Books (2000)
- _The Paul McCartney Encyclopedia_	Virgin Books (2002)
- _The George Harrison Encyclopedia_	Virgin Books (2003)
- _The Ringo Starr Encyclopedia_     Virgin Books (2004)
- _The British Invasion_	Chrome Dreams	(2004)
- _Bigger Than The Beatles_, Trinity Mirror (2009)
- _Lennon's Liverpool_, Trinity Mirror (2010)
- _The Sixties_ (Harry & Robert Orbach) Endeavour London Ltd. (2011)

## Other websites

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

## Infobox (person)

- **image size**: 200px
- **name**: Bill Harry
- **caption**: Bill Harry with his wife Virginia, 1964
- **birth place**: Smithdown Road, Liverpool, Smithdown Road Hospital, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, UK
- **occupation**: Journalist, Public relations, P.R.
- **spouse**: Virginia Harry (née Sowry)
- **children**: 1
- **website**: [http://triumphpc.com/mersey-beat/about/founders-story.shtml Triumphpc]