List of beat bands

This is a list of beat bands. Beat is a genre of rock music and R'n'B developed around Liverpool in the late 1950s. Freakbeat subsequently grew out of the beat-scene in the 1960s, simultaneously with the Netherlands-specific Nederbeat-scene and the Italian beat-scene.

Beat bands

• The Aces (rock and roll band) ^[1]
• The Applejacks (British band) ^[2]
• The Beatles ^[3]
• Blossom Toes ^[4]
• Cliff Bennett and the Rebel Rousers ^[5]
• The Blackbirds (German band) ^[6]
• The Cryin' Shames ^[7]
• Lee Curtis and the All-Stars ^[8]
• The Dakotas (band) ^[9]
• The Dave Clark Five ^[10]
• The Dennisons ^[11]
• The Equals ^[12]
• The Escorts (British band) ^[13]
• Faron's Flamingos ^[14]
• The Fortunes ^[15]
• The Fourmost ^[16]
• Freddie and the Dreamers ^[17]
• Gerry and the Pacemakers ^[18]
• Herman's Hermits ^[19]
• The Hideaways (band) ^[20]
• The Hollies ^[21]
• The Honeycombs ^[22]
• The Hullaballoos ^[23]
• Ian and the Zodiacs ^[24]
• Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers ^[25]
• The John Barry Seven ^[26]
• John's Children ^[27]
• Johnny Kidd & the Pirates ^[28]
• Kingsize Taylor and the Dominoes ^[29]
• The Liverbirds ^[30]
• Liverpool Five ^[31]
• The Lords (German band) ^[32]
• Manfred Mann ^[33]
• The Merseybeats ^[34]
• The Mindbenders ^[35]
• The Mojos ^[36]
• The Moody Blues ^[37]
• The Nashville Teens ^[38]
• Olympic '64 ^[39]
• The Puppets ^[40]
• The Rockin' Berries ^[41]
• The Rockin' Vickers ^[42]
• The Searchers (band) ^[43]
• Small Faces ^[44]
• The Sorrows ^[45]
• The Swinging Blue Jeans ^[46]
• Tages (band) ^[47]
• The Undertakers (band) ^[48]
• The Warriors (British band) ^[49]
• Wimple Winch ^[50]
• The Zombies ^[51]

Freakbeat bands

• The Action ^[52]
• The Attack (band) ^[53]
• The Birds (band) ^[54]
• Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich ^[55]
• Downliners Sect ^[56]
• The Easybeats ^[57]
• The Fleur de Lys ^[58]
• Pretty Things ^[59]
• The Rattles ^[60]
• The Rokes ^[61]
• St. Louis Union ^[62]
• The Syn ^[63]
• The Syndicats ^[64]
• Tomorrow (band) ^[65]
• The Toggery Five ^[66]
• The Troggs ^[67]

Nederbeat bands

• The Cats (Dutch band) ^[68]
• Cuby + Blizzards ^[69]
• The Motions (band) ^[70]
• The Outsiders (Dutch band) ^[71]
• Q65 (band) ^[72]
• Sandy Coast ^[73]
• The Shoes (Dutch band) ^[74]
• Shocking Blue ^[75]
• Tee-Set ^[76]

Italian beat bands

• Dik Dik ^[77]
• Equipe 84 ^[78]
• New Trolls ^[79]
• Nomadi ^[80]
• Stormy Six ^[81]

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