RIP Gerry Marsden

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  1. Donny Red

    Donny Red Well-Known Member

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    Frontman of the Pacemakers has died aged 78 RIP Gerry.
     
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    RIP Gerry.
     
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    R.I.P. Gerry. You'll never walk alone.
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    Not covid related. Infection in his heart. He had a pacemaker fitted. He really did.
     
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    RIP Gerry
     
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    Probably the most famous adopted football song ever. RIP sir.
     
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    :(
     
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    This song was repeatedly requested on the local Liverpool radio stations on the night of the Hilsborough disaster, another of Gerry's hits, as folk waited anxiously for news of loved ones. He rereleased it as a charity single to raise money for the grieving families.
     
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    I knew one of those DJ's Big Lil. He was the late Kenny Johnson who played at the
    Cavern with his then Band Sonny Webb and the Cascades. He was big mates with
    Gerry Marsden, the Beatles, the Meseybeats, the Searchers and many more. He was
    once approached by Brian Epstein to record pop songs, but he refused on the grounds of
    his loyalty to country music.

    I booked him times many with his group Northwind at the club I helped to run in
    Doncaster. He always packed the place out , he was that popular. He was also a
    DJ on local radio in Liverpool.

    In the 80's he was voted best U.K. Country singer and invited me to the presentation
    of the Aria Guitar Award at the Peterborough Festival of Country Music.

    Kenny had a wicked sense of humour and as the presentation Party lined up for the photo for the
    local rag, he flipped a fifty pence piece in the air just as the camera shutter was about
    to click. Everybody on the front row including the Mayor of Peterborough and myself,
    bent down to pick it up, which caused gales of laughter.

    https://www.alancackett.com/kenny-johnson
     
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    looks like STYLES
     
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    Sad news. R.I.P. Gerry
     
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    R I P Gerry
     
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    R.I.P. Gerry

     
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    Absolute giant of the 60's. Fantastic voice, clear and distinctive. Sad that he has gone.
     
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    Thetykester, which match was this? the 'You'll Never Walk Alone' rendition?
     
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    You have to ask, Mick?

    Clue: opponents were Bratfud City........
     
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    26th April 1997 the day we were promoted to the Premier Division after a 2-0 win
    against Chris Kamaras Bradford City. I was somewhere in the middle of that lot.
    A truly memorable day.

    Bradford fans were so generous in their applause and well wishes that quite a number of Reds fans
    attended their next home game to help cheer them to a win that saw them narrowly avoid relegation.
     
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    Yes, I missed the game. I thought the rendition must be prem season.

    I live in Sydney. I make most of the big ones... but this one seemed to just happen quickly.

    Memorable for me too. I was in bed and the match ended around 3.30am. I was more than half asleep. The commentary was always patchy and unreliable back then. But I knew that a goal and we were straight promoted... I heard the Clint goal and we kept the lead, It was a beautiful feeling and still more than half asleep. Over the next week I realised how big the match was to all of us. I realised that the Bradford game was as good as gets in the last fifty years

    From then on I came over for all the important matches. You can come a cropper too... I came over for a Crewe match.

    I was there for the West Ham match and the Chelsea 0-6 and Palace away... maybe Bolton.
    Ipswich and Swansea.... but I missed the Bradford match.

    (I was at Altrincham)

    I was at Altringham, too.
     
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    He'll never walk alone.....
     
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