The Liverbirds

The Liverbirds were a British all-female beat group, based in Liverpool, active between 1963 and 1968.The hard-rocking quartet (consisting of vocalist-guitarist Valerie Gell, guitarist-vocalist Pamela Birch, bassist-vocalist Mary McGlory and drummer Sylvia Saunders) was one of the very few female bands on the Merseybeat scene.Indeed, they were one of the few self-contained all-woman rock and roll bands anywhere in the world at the time.The band took their name from the liver bird, a fictional creature which is the symbol of their native Liverpool.