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Freddie & the Dreamers

Shaking their moptops alongside Gerry And The Pacemakers, The Searchers and The Beatles, Freddie And The Dreamers were part of the Merseybeat scene that kick-started a golden age of British pop music and helped shape the great rock bands of the 1960s. Frontman Freddie Garrity was originally a skiffle-loving milkman from Manchester, but when Beatlemania struck he joined up with Pete Birrell, Roy Crewsdon, Derek Quinn and Bernie Dwyer and headed out to Germany to play at Hamburg's infamous bars and nightclubs. Freddie's energetic leaping and manic dance move known as "The Freddie" ...