The Liverpool Scene — “Baby”: Brace for the Obscure (60s rock)! — June 13, 2026

THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD

2,005) The Liverpool Scene — “Baby”

These Liverpool poet/hipsters’ “raucous pastiche” (Marco Rossi, https://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/album/the-amazing-adventures-of) about a girl who “make[s] me feel like last week’s knickers!”, “like two already legalized consenting vicars” is “a strange uptempo jazzy beat R&B track with a talking half sung vocal”. (Teabiscuit, https://www.45cat.com/record/rca1762) Teabiscuit’s verdict: “pretentious theatre styled stuff no commercial potential/A case of ‘You Had To Be There’ is probably a fair comment.” What?! It is hilarious. I wish I was there. Well, we can be there! Here is a cool video of the Scene performing “Baby” in London’s Victory Park in ’70: http://damnable-iron.com/liverpool_scene.html.

Piccadilly Sunshine tells us:

A notorious outfit that was effectively a collaboration between numerous poets including Adrian Henri, Andy Roberts, Mike Evans and Pete Brown (Battered Ornaments) amongst many others. Heavily supported by John Peel and Jack Bruce, they were popular on the college circuit, but it was a limited enclosure for wider appeal. They managed five albums in various guises up until 1972.

liner notes to Piccadilly Sunshine: Volumes 11-20: A Compendium of Rare Pop Curios from the British Psychedelic Era

Marco Rossi adds:

The Liverpool Scene coalesced semi-accidentally around poet and painter Adrian Henri, one of the chief architects of the city’s multi-media “events” of the early-to-mid-60s. Today, being a poet is to risk being battered, de-kegged and set on fire. Back then, however, poetry was a noble, rather sexy and decidedly rock’n’roll calling, thanks in no small measure to the witty, perceptive and pretension-free work of Henri and his “Mersey Sound” contemporaries. Fronting a band was a logical and inevitable progression . . . .

https://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/album/the-amazing-adventures-of

Oh, and “the band quickly found itself an integral part of music’s underground circuit, culminating in their impressive appearance at the 1969 Isle Of Wight Festival.” (All Music Guide, https://www.allmusic.com/artist/liverpool-scene-mn0000311258#biography)

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