LIME STREET BLUES captures the heady freedom that Liverpudlians rejoiced in during the '60s. The Beatles provide background music for this study of three families intertwined over a twenty-year period by rock and roll and fast-paced social changes. Maggie Ollerenshaw is flawless as the performer of the numerous characters who comprise this panoramic look at music in all its facets--composing, practicing, organizing, and performing. After the various sets of parents cavort, conspire, divorce, and abandon their mates, their various children grow up, marry, have children of their own, cavort, conspire, divorce, and move through the fabric of one another's lives in a tapestry of frenzied fame, and all its trappings. Death, forgiveness, and redemption ensue as the joyful music of the time burns into acid and hard rock. M.D.H. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine--
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Three Liverpool families, the Flowers, the Baileys and the McDowds are inextricably linked by music. The young people revel in the heady excitement of Sixties Liverpool. Against all odds in this male dominated world, three of the girls form a successful group, only splitting to go their separate ways, Rita to find ever greater success as a singer, Marcia to become a mother and Jeannie Flowers cruelly to deceive the husband she loves in order to have the family she longs for. It is Sean McDowd who becomes the greatest star of them all, adored by women everywhere, yet never able to get his childhood love, Jeannie, out of his mind. But Jeannie is married to his best friend...