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Gerry Marsden formed Gerry & The Pacemakers in the late 1950s with his brother, Fred Marsden, Les Chadwick and Arthur Mack. They rivalled The Beatles early in their career, playing in the same areas of Hamburg, Germany and Liverpool, England. Mack was replaced on piano by Les Maguire around 1961. They are known to have rehearsed at Camell Laird shipping yard at Birkenhead.

They began recording in early 1963 with “How Do You Do It?”, a Mitch Murray written song that both Adam Faith and The Beatles had turned down (in the latter case because they wanted to record their own material, specifically “Please Please Me”). The song became a number one hit, until being replaced at the top by The Beatles’ third single, “From Me to You”.

Gerry & The Pacemakers next two singles, Murray’s “I Like It” and Rodgers And Hammerstein’s “You’ll Never Walk Alone”, both also reached number one in the UK Singles Chart. Never before had the first three singles by a performer all reached the top spot (the feat would not be duplicated until Frankie Goes to Hollywood did it in the 1980s).

Despite this early success, Gerry & The Pacemakers never had another number one single in the U.S. Gerry Marsden began writing most of their own songs, including “It’s All Right”, “I’m the One”, and “Ferry Cross the Mersey”, as well as their first and biggest U.S.
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  • Lillsimon

    YNWA - We love you Liverpool, We do! [72]

    29 Apr 5:29pm Reply

  • bapiws

    YNWA - We love you Liverpool, We do! [71]

    23 Apr 3:42pm Reply

  • amiakuy

    YNWA - We love you Liverpool, We do! [70]

    19 Apr 1:53am Reply

  • lgr

    YNWA - We love you liverpool,we do! [69 ]

    10 Feb 8:47pm Reply

  • bomb_the_bass

    YNWA - We love you liverpool,we do! [68]

    27 Dec 2012 Reply

  • guowa

    whatever club you support you just can't hate this

    6 Dec 2012 Reply

  • marksplace2008

    You'll Never Walk Alone is No.1 on itunes!!!! Hope it stays there for Sunday.

    15 Sep 2012 Reply

  • baizixiele

    YNWA - We love you liverpool,we do! [67]

    6 Aug 2012 Reply

  • NotWhatUThought

    YNWA - We love you liverpool,we do! [66] Going to see them on Saturday!!!

    17 Jul 2012 Reply

  • iPowers

    It's amazing how The beatles got over 20000000 plays and these guys haven't even hit 1 million.

    29 May 2012 Reply

  • siridwan

    YNWA - We love you liverpool,we do! [65]

    16 May 2012 Reply

  • aviesoavie

    YNWA - We love you liverpool,we do! [64]

    12 May 2012 Reply

  • WoozieGTA

    YNWA - We love you liverpool,we do! [63]

    7 May 2012 Reply

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    YNWA - We love you liverpool,we do! [63]

    7 May 2012 Reply

  • britishboy1976

    For anyone who is interested, EMI release on 23 April 2012 'Completely Cilla: 1963-1973' - a 5CD boxset of material by the British pop singer Cilla Black who began her career alongside The Beatles in Liverpool during the 1960s. Cilla went on to chart 18 Top 40 singles during that decade and toured across the world with many of the other sixties greats. The new set contains 139 recordings all produced by George Martin (the man behind The Beatles' hits) and comes with a bonus Region 0 / NTSC DVD of many previously unreleased BBC TV music performances.

    22 Apr 2012 Reply

  • ddm809

    better than beatles

    17 Apr 2012 Reply

  • carolyne28

    That's truly fascinating, Damiand77!

    8 Apr 2012 Reply

  • ROTTEN15

    YNWA - We love you liverpool,we do! [62]

    15 Mar 2012 Reply

  • Bob_the_snake

    YNWA - We love you liverpool,we do! [61]

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