Valerie Gell obituary

Guitarist and singer with the Liverbirds, the 60s Liverpool beat group billed as the female BeatlesIn the 1960s, Valerie Gell, who has died aged 71, was part of the all-female Liverpool teenage beat group the Liverbirds. They had their greatest success in Hamburg, with residencies at the Star-Club, where the Beatles had played on and off throughout 1962 before their chart breakthrough and where the Liverbirds were billed as “die Weibchen Beatles” (the female Beatles). Although presen