The Liver Birds, a sort of female Likely Lads starring Nerys Hughes and Polly James, began in 1971. But this wasn't quite how the programme started. In the late 1960s, a pair of Liverpudlian ...

We explore some of Wikipedia’s oddities in our 5,993,858-week series, Wiki Wormhole. This week’s entry: The Liverbirds What it’s about: A lovable foursome of rock-and-rollers from Liverpool, who tore ...

For 16-year-old Mary McGlory, the Liverbirds’ bassist, the sight and sound of the Beatles made for an originary moment. From her earliest days, she had planned on becoming a nun, but in one indelible ...