Gerry Marsden RIP
-
- Posts: 1450
- Joined: Sat Feb 11, 2017 12:45 pm
- Been Liked: 664 times
- Has Liked: 379 times
Gerry Marsden RIP
Gerry Marsden died aged 78.
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
Another one goes rip
-
- Posts: 67789
- Joined: Thu Dec 24, 2015 3:07 pm
- Been Liked: 32408 times
- Has Liked: 5273 times
- Location: Burnley
- Contact:
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
How strange - heard Ferry Cross the Mersey only yesterday. He will certainly be mourned at Anfield where he gave them something a bit special.
RIP Gerry
RIP Gerry
This user liked this post: Juan Tanamera
-
- Posts: 5363
- Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 2:42 pm
- Been Liked: 1904 times
- Has Liked: 1978 times
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
I flew from Liverpool to Malaga a couple of years ago and we had opposite aisle seats on the plane. He was full of fun and great to chat to. A really likeable man, we had a few g&ts together on the flight. RIP to a sixties star.
This user liked this post: Juan Tanamera
-
- Posts: 25445
- Joined: Sat Mar 26, 2016 12:46 am
- Been Liked: 6930 times
- Has Liked: 11660 times
- Location: Leeds
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
RIP. I was a bit of a fan of Gerry and the Pacemakers when I was young, as my parents used to sometimes listen to them.
"I like it" and of course Ferry Cross the Mersey were 2 of my faves of theirs.
"I like it" and of course Ferry Cross the Mersey were 2 of my faves of theirs.
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
Don't let the sun catch you crying......Brilliant!
These 2 users liked this post: LoveCurryPies Colburn_Claret
-
- Posts: 5363
- Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 2:42 pm
- Been Liked: 1904 times
- Has Liked: 1978 times
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
I think they were the first band/artists ever to have their first three singles go to number one in the Uk. "What do you do to me", "I like it" and "You'll never walk alone" if my memory serves me.
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
RIP Gerry, another 60s legend passes away.
-
- Posts: 17935
- Joined: Thu Jan 21, 2016 7:07 pm
- Been Liked: 4068 times
- Has Liked: 1853 times
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
A lot of people assume GM and the Pacemakers wrote "You'll Never Walk Alone", but its actually from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.
Written in 1945 by Richard Rodgers.
RIP Gerry.
Written in 1945 by Richard Rodgers.
RIP Gerry.
-
- Posts: 3313
- Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:15 pm
- Been Liked: 699 times
- Has Liked: 174 times
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
The passing away of Gerry Marsden is one of only a few that has brought a tear to my eye. A real legend for us oldies.
This user liked this post: Juan Tanamera
-
- Posts: 67789
- Joined: Thu Dec 24, 2015 3:07 pm
- Been Liked: 32408 times
- Has Liked: 5273 times
- Location: Burnley
- Contact:
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
Countless people recorded it previously but Gerry took it to number one and then saw it adopted by the football club he supported. It’s the version we now all know best.ElectroClaret wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 6:02 pmA lot of people assume GM and the Pacemakers wrote "You'll Never Walk Alone", but its actually from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.
Written in 1945 by Richard Rodgers.
RIP Gerry.
I know we all sing “Where’s you famous atmosphere” when we go to Anfield but I’ve been at the other end for a non Burnley game when they sing it and it really is something incredible.
-
- Posts: 67789
- Joined: Thu Dec 24, 2015 3:07 pm
- Been Liked: 32408 times
- Has Liked: 5273 times
- Location: Burnley
- Contact:
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
I never met him, never saw him perform live but I always had it in my head that he was a really good bloke.Vino blanco wrote: ↑Sun Jan 03, 2021 5:51 pmI flew from Liverpool to Malaga a couple of years ago and we had opposite aisle seats on the plane. He was full of fun and great to chat to. A really likeable man, we had a few g&ts together on the flight. RIP to a sixties star.
-
- Posts: 2005
- Joined: Sun Aug 12, 2018 9:20 am
- Been Liked: 307 times
- Has Liked: 319 times
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
Always liked Gerry and the Pacemakers ever since we went to New Brighton on the ferry when I was a kid. When we got back from holidays he brought out Ferry ‘Cross the Mersey which was great. RIP Gerry.
-
- Posts: 2102
- Joined: Tue Dec 29, 2015 8:31 am
- Been Liked: 1141 times
- Has Liked: 1617 times
- Location: Worsthorne
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
In the absence of Lord Beamish
You'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone
-
- Posts: 9599
- Joined: Thu Jan 21, 2016 9:45 pm
- Been Liked: 3148 times
- Has Liked: 10237 times
- Location: Staffordshire
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
I'm assuming he played the Imp at Nelson.
-
- Posts: 927
- Joined: Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:30 pm
- Been Liked: 252 times
- Has Liked: 313 times
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
Saw him perform in Durham a few years ago and got chance to chat afterwards and I can confirm he was a lovely chap.
RIP Gerry
RIP Gerry
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
RIP always came across as a gent.
-
- Posts: 9459
- Joined: Sun Oct 16, 2016 10:47 pm
- Been Liked: 1183 times
- Has Liked: 778 times
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
RIP Gerry.
-
- Posts: 5829
- Joined: Thu Jan 21, 2016 12:38 pm
- Been Liked: 2491 times
- Has Liked: 1477 times
- Location: On the high seas chasing Pirates
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
R I P Gerry .
-
- Posts: 4955
- Joined: Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:47 am
- Been Liked: 1087 times
- Has Liked: 996 times
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
Knew his daughter at Uni many years ago. Gerry and the band came to a function and played for us youngsters - a great night!
RIP
RIP
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
Another part of my youth gone. I loved Gerry and the Pacemakers as a teenager, I don't think I saw them live but did see a
lot of acts at the Imp, perhaps I did, I just can't remember them all nowadays. I don't mind admitting I often shed a tear every time I here them sing " You'll never walk alone" R.I.P. Gerry.
lot of acts at the Imp, perhaps I did, I just can't remember them all nowadays. I don't mind admitting I often shed a tear every time I here them sing " You'll never walk alone" R.I.P. Gerry.
This user liked this post: Juan Tanamera
-
- Posts: 4439
- Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 8:20 pm
- Been Liked: 1161 times
- Has Liked: 1293 times
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
Such a shame, like many on here his music was very much the backdrop to my childhood. I saw him with a few other 60s acts at Colne Muni a few years back.
RIP
RIP
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
Don't mind admitting it used to have the hairs on the back of my neck up, seeing the kop in full voice.More poignant now with no crowds.
-
- Posts: 5870
- Joined: Wed Jan 27, 2016 6:39 pm
- Been Liked: 1695 times
- Has Liked: 2531 times
- Location: Rawtenstall
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
Very much part of my formative years. My dad actually asked me to go and buy YNWA in November 1963 for him. No1 in the charts when Kennedy was assassinated. Gerry's brother,Fred, was a member of his band and played the drums. RIP Gerry Marsden. A life well lived.
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
I had a scooter in the 70s and it was a Lambretta:
In the UK the 150 Special was marketed as the Pacemaker, a Pacemaker sticker was affixed directly under the Special badge on the front leg shields. Concessionaires the pop group Gerry and the Pacemakers in a whole host of promotional material.
The group were one of the number that made up the "Mersey Sound", great time were the "Swinging 60s" and 70s IMO.
Football and Popular music fans heyday then in many ways, and for BFC and other Town teams in the First Division a time of the unequal Wages and gate receipt changes that favoured the City teams. Burnley were of course the last team in Lancashire to get relegated from the First Division.
In the UK the 150 Special was marketed as the Pacemaker, a Pacemaker sticker was affixed directly under the Special badge on the front leg shields. Concessionaires the pop group Gerry and the Pacemakers in a whole host of promotional material.
The group were one of the number that made up the "Mersey Sound", great time were the "Swinging 60s" and 70s IMO.
Football and Popular music fans heyday then in many ways, and for BFC and other Town teams in the First Division a time of the unequal Wages and gate receipt changes that favoured the City teams. Burnley were of course the last team in Lancashire to get relegated from the First Division.
-
- Posts: 1390
- Joined: Thu Feb 25, 2016 11:51 am
- Been Liked: 236 times
- Has Liked: 441 times
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
Great band were Gerry and he's pacemakers, feel very privileged to have seen them would you believe at springhill wmc in Accy around 1976/77 R. I. P. Gerry
-
- Posts: 823
- Joined: Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:03 pm
- Been Liked: 299 times
- Has Liked: 440 times
- Location: Burnley
-
- Posts: 5640
- Joined: Thu Jan 21, 2016 4:25 pm
- Been Liked: 1217 times
- Has Liked: 7178 times
- Location: Chiang Rai, Thailand.
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
RIP Gerry.
Re: Gerry Marsden RIP
I was born in 1952. I was so fortunate to have grown up through the sixties and for the Clarets to be one of the best sides in the country. Match day was me and dad dashing down to Rawtenstall town centre to the bus station at Queens Square to board the many double decker bus 'specials' that were put on to get supporters to Burnley and to the Cattle Market on match day. Walking down Yorkshire Street amongst the throngs of supporters that filled the pavements and road. My dad was an engineer and worked Saturday mornings and we used to listen to the radio and music before setting off. It was all the great early sixties pop stuff.The point of this for me is that Gerry and the Pacemakers opitimised that period in my life like no other. Whenever I hear 'Dont let the sun catch you crying' it is very emotional and reminds me of those great days of me and dad going to the match. They had a unique sound. To me they were more Liverpool sound than perhaps the Beatles. Great sounds, great memories. Thanks Gerry. God bless. That's all.....I just felt the need to have a bit of a ramble. Hope you dont mind. HNY everybody..
This user liked this post: Paulclaret