![L-R Mary McGlory, Pamela Birch, Sylvia Saunders and Valerie Gell of Liverpool band The Liverbirds pose for a group portrait outside the Star Club c 1963 in Hamburg, Germany](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/TwNSPHKrhXoKHpRXfZus2f-320-80.jpg)
The Liverbirds played alongside the Beatles and the Rolling Stones – and paved the way for women in rock
From booting Chuck Berry’s manager off stage and proving John Lennon wrong, to touring Japan and blazing a screaming trail across Europe, The Liverbirds took Merseybeat beyond British shores, on their own terms