Brum Beat was a magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 about the music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

 of Birmingham

Birmingham

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, England

England

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 and the neighbouring towns. It was started as Midlands Beat by promoter

Tour promoter

Tour promoters are the individuals or companies responsible for organizing a live concert tour or special event performance. The tour promoter makes an offer of employment to a particular artist, usually through the artist’s agent or music manager. The promoter and agent then negotiate the live...

 and band-manager

Talent manager

A talent manager, also known as an artist manager or band manager, is an individual or company who guides the professional career of artists in the entertainment industry...

 Jim Simpson, who sold it to its latter editor, Steve Morris, who in turn relaunched it in newspaper

Newspaper

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 format as The Beat, before converting it into a website.

It took its original name from the term coined in the late 1960s to collectively describe the City's music scene, in the manner of the Mersey sound

Mersey sound

Mersey Sound or Merseybeat or may refer to*Merseybeat , a television series*Mersey Beat, a music newspaper*Beat music, a musical genre also known as the Mersey Sound or Merseybeat...

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