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)  

References

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

Category:English journalists
Category:The Beatles
Category:Writers from Liverpool
Category:Living people
Category:1938 births