The Merseys has been played on NTS in shows including Outsider Oldies, featured first on 27 October 2020. Songs played include Sorrow.

The Merseys are a spin-off of The Merseybeats, a band that emerged from the Liverpool scene in the early 1960s, performing at The Cavern Club along with The Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers and other similar artists.

After the initial success of The Merseybeats had waned, the band folded, and in 1966 founding members Tony Crane and Billy Kinsley formed a vocal duo called The Merseys. They had a major hit with their first single Sorrow, which became a Sixties classic and has since…