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Cunard Yanks

Liverpool, New York City, Hamburg

and the Beatles

John Winter

KEY SELLING POINTS

What it was like to live and work on Cunard’s iconic ships, such as the Queen Mary, and meet the famous
film stars and jazz musicians who regularly travelled on them in the 1950s.
For lovers of New York City, the early Beatles, Liverpool and Merseybeat, and U.S. singers such as Elvis
Presley and Buddy Holly.
A linked prequel by the author of ‘Blame It On The Beatles … And Bill Shankly’ (Troubador 2018)

Cunard Yanks were British men, mostly young, who worked on Cunard ships from the 1940s to the early
1960s on the transatlantic routes, mainly between Liverpool and New York. American consumer goods,
fashions and music which they brought to Liverpool gave the city a special awareness of popular American
culture.

New York is their second home at a time when few British people go there. They see Buddy Holly play at the
famous Apollo Theatre in Harlem and watch Pee Wee Marquette introduce Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie at
Birdland. They visit Jack Dempsey’s Bar and shake the great man’s hand. And catch the A-line to Coney Island
before watching Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field.

American clothes and records, and gifts of stockings and perfume, are a hit with the girls back home, while
American music inspires groups like the Beatles who play at the Cavern and the Casbah, as well as at the
Kaiserkeller in Hamburg, before finally presenting their Merseybeat version of rock ‘n’ roll to the world.

John Winter was a teenager on Merseyside in the nineteen sixties. He worked at The Cavern as a songwriter
and got to know the musicians who were making Liverpool famous. He has sailed all the world’s major oceans
with Cunard. And a close relative was electrical engineer on the original Queen Mary. This has provided him
with the background for his latest book, Cunard Yanks.

Publication Date: 28th August 2024 £10.99 ISBN: 9781805144915
Thema subject category: FV – Historical fiction
paperback 216 x 138 mm 400 pp Portrait Author location & book setting: Liverpool

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