Hands up who has heard of The Liverbirds? No? Well, all that’s about to change, in fact if you’re from Liverpool there is a chance that you may be in the know via the sell-out musical Girls don’t play Guitars that ran at the City’s Royal Court Theatre in 2019 and is due a re-run this September. Sometime prior to that show, I was in conversation with a very good friend of mine and fellow music writer, Paul Fitzgerald who was enthusing about The Liverbirds, a largely forgotten all girl Beat Band who formed around the time of The Beatles Cavern era, taking a similar journey from Merseyside to Hamburg but unlike their fellow Merseybeat friends they stayed on, entertaining their ever-growing German fanbase. Paul had the idea that the girls, who were Britain’s first female Rock and Roll ba...