Brum Beat
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Brum Beat was a monthly magazine about the music of Birmingham, England,<ref name=visb/> and the neighbouring towns. The magazine was started in 1970<ref name=visb>Template:Cite web</ref> as Midlands Beat by promoter and band-manager Jim Simpson, who sold it to its latter editor, Steve Morris,<ref>Template:Cite web Template:Dead link</ref> who in turn relaunched it in newspaper format as The Beat, before converting it into a website.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
It took its original name from the term coined in the late 1950s to collectively describe the city's music scene, in the manner of the Mersey sound.
It has been suggested that The Moody Blues, formed in May 1964, were the first of the "Brum Beat" bands to become internationally famous.<ref>Moody Brum Beat</ref> other bands such as the Spencer Davis Group were members of the Brum Beat scene.
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- Mass media in Birmingham, West Midlands
- Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom
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- Music in Birmingham, West Midlands