the Mersey beat

🔊/ðə ˈmɜːzi biːt/
🔊/ðə ˈmɜːrzi biːt/
(also the Mersey sound)
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  1. the name used to describe a style of pop music which was created and played by a number of groups from Liverpool in the first half of the 1960s, and which became very popular all over the world. The most famous of these groups was the Beatles.