The Liverbirds - The Complete Star-Club Recordings

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The Liverbirds foi um grupo feminino de hard rock, originário de Liverpool.

Não tiveram muito sucesso nessa cidade mas, em 1963, foram para Hamburgo, onde se tornaram muito populares a tocar no Star-Club. 

Irene Green (voz), Sheila McGlory (guitarra, voz), Mary McGlory (baixo, voz), Pamela Birch (guitarra, voz), Valerie Gell (guitarra, voz) e Sylvia Saunders (bateria) juntaram-se no início de 1962 sob o nome de Debutones, antes de o alterar para The Liverbirds, mais específico em relação à cidade. Irene Green deixou o grupo para se juntar às Tiffany's Dimensions, enquanto Sheila McGlory foi para The Demoiselles, ficando a banda reduzida a um quarteto. The Liverbirds tornaram-se numa grande atração no Star-Club, onde gravaram dois LPs pelo rótulo com o mesmo nome e lançaram cinco singles na Alemanha.

Elas surpreendiam em palco, pois eram quatro garotas vestidas de negro e a tocavam maravilhosamente os seus instrumentos com grande atitude. Elas chegaram a tocar uma versão hard rock de "Mona" de Bo Diddley, ao nível de outros grupos de rock da época.

O grupo permaneceu na Alemanha até 1967, onde vários dos seus membros se estabeleceram permanentemente.

The Liverbirds (sometimes spelled Liver Birds) were one of the more distinctive outfits in Liverpool (and anywhere else, for that matter) by virtue of the fact that they were a hard-rocking all-girl group, self-contained instrumentally and focused on rhythm and blues. They weren't too successful musically in Liverpool, but in 1963 they went to Hamburg, where they became one of the most popular acts ever to play the Star-Club. Irene Green (vocals), Sheila McGlory (guitar, vocals), Mary McGlory (bass, vocals), Pamela Birch (guitar, vocals), Valerie Gell (guitar, vocals), and Sylvia Saunders (drums) got together in early 1962 under the name the Debutones, before changing it to the more city-specific Liverbirds. Irene Green left to join Tiffany's Dimensions, while Sheila McGlory jumped to the Demoiselles and, reduced to a quartet, the Liverbirds became a major attraction at the Star-Club, cutting two LPs for the label of that name and charting a number five single in Germany with their cover of "Diddley Daddy." They were startling to look at in an era when girl singers were supposed to be pretty on-stage, four tough-looking northern girls dressed in black and playing their instruments with attitude -- they cut a savage version of Bo Diddley's "Mona" and could rip through most any rock & roll standard, but when their record company had them throw on a soft Everly Brothers-type ballad or two, it sounded more like a joke; these girls couldn't harmonize to save their lives, but they rocked their asses off. What's more, they lasted all the way to 1967, primarily playing in Germany, where several of the members settled permanently.

Fonte: Bruce Eder, Rovi

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