How old is gerry marsden of gerry and the pacemakers

The song was embraced during the outset of the coronavirus pandemic last spring when a cover of the song, which featured World War II veteran Tom Moore, reached number one. In , Beatles manager Brian Epstein signed up the band and their first three releases reached No.

Marsden is survived by his wife Pauline, whom he married in The couple had two daughters. IE 11 is not supported. While Marsden was a songwriter as well as a singer, his most enduring hit was actually a cover of a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical number from , which he had to convince his bandmates to record as their third single. In many interviews over the years, he explained how fate played a part in his band ever recording the song.

He was watching a Laurel and Hardy movie at Liverpool's Odeon cinema in the early s and, only because it was raining, he decided to stay for the second part of a double feature. That turned out to be the film Carousel - which featured that song on its soundtrack - and Marsden was so moved by the lyrics that he became determined that it should become part of his band's repertoire.

In a interview, Marsden told the Liverpool FC website how You'll Never Walk Alone was adopted by the club's fans as soon as it topped the chart in "I remember being at Anfield and before every kick off they used to play the top 10 from number 10 to number one, and so You'll Never Walk Alone was played before the match.

I was at the game and the fans started singing it. Sir Kenny Dalglish, who managed Liverpool at the time of the Hillsborough tragedy, tweeted that he was "saddened" by the news of Marsden's death, and that You'll Never Walk Alone was an "integral part of Liverpool Football Club, and never more so than now".

Lost too many good friends in , so was glad to see the back of it. Was notified of the death of another of my great friends this morning. Gerry was an entertainer.

He loved being an entertainer; he loved people seeing him in the street and asking him for his autograph and the like. He had a very distinctive voice, and that is terribly important. You knew instantly it was him on those records.

He was best on those ballads. I think he really did them very well indeed. You'll Never Walk Alone was a big show song that had been around for years and years, and lots of people had done it. Just before Gerry brought his version out, Johnny Mathis brought his out. If that version had been played on the Kop, I don't think the Kop would have taken to it because you couldn't sing along with Johnny Mathis - he had too big a range and too perfect a voice.

See ya, Gerry. However, in , Marsden topped the charts with a new version of the song recorded with fellow Merseyside artists The Christians, Holly Johnson and Paul McCartney in aid of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster. So glad I met him. Was notified of the death of another of my great friends this morning. He was awarded the MBE in and six years later was given the freedom of the city of Liverpool for his charitable works for the city and for his contribution to Liverpudlian culture.

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