Gerry Marsden

So, I don't really mean that.

Do you know the wonderful verse in that? Do you remember Gerry Marsden on the part? Was it 2003? Was it the UEFA Cup game? Where the Liverpool fans were the corner and Gerry Marsden came out and sang it.

And that was goosebump stuff.

I thought that was incredible.

That was the, that was the big star attraction before kickoff.

When you f- you know, when you heard the end of the teams announcing and the first strains of Gerry Marsden, and you see the flags go up, and it's coming, and it's like, oh, it was so much fun.

I used to look behind me to the way, to the way fans at the back just to see how many were in awe, but they were too busy fighting at the time most of them.

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This is like a real anthem, this, and everyone's swaying and, in tune to it, and it, it's got a great sense of, of hope at the end of it, hasn't it, and, and optimism.

Then it, it falls out the charts as old records do, and immediately the Kop are singing Where's Our Song? Where's Our Song? And it goes back in, and it's, it's been played every game since.

Um, yeah, You'll Never Walk Alone is, it's, uh, it's funny that the Gerry Marsden version's so famous, yet it's not even the original, and there's been other restorations of it have yet, but, but, uh, even in touch at the very start of your book about, um, um...

I'm trying to remember what it was.

And produced by the great Sir George Martin.

The band's lead vocalist was Jerry Marsden, and his band was the Pacemakers.

And their first three singles topped the charts in the UK, while seven made it to the top 40 in the U.S.,

So, Jim, let's get to two sublime songs from 64 and 65, respectively.

It's been very emotional each time it's happened.

On Sunday night, apparently a group of prominent Australian musicians are going to sing an acapella version of the classic, You'll Never Walk Alone, Jerry Marsden's classic, as Arrow will complete a lap of honour.

And it'll follow a whole season of the rugby league community rallying around the football star and frankly raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for motor neurone disease awareness and his family.

It promises to be a very moving 11 minutes of television right before the Roosters and the Knights kick off.

What's this?

When all the assembled mass and all the dignitaries are going to sing, Jerry Marsden and the pacemakers, you'll never walk alone.

A couple of things struck me.

It was the Bataclan.

Exactly two years earlier to the day, Another member of the group the Angels was born, it was Phyllis's sister, Barbara Bibbs Allbutt, born in 1940.

How's that for a coincidence? Jerry Marsden was born in 1942.

He, of course, is the front man and leader of the Mercy Beat Pop group.

Jerry and the Pacemakers had songs like You'll Never Walk Alone and Ferry Cross the Mercy.

Uh, where Liverpool play football at Anfield has been there since the 1880s, the 1880s.

And were he still with us, Gerry Marsden would be having a birthday today.

He was born in 1942, but we lost Gerry in 2021.

And, you know, the Beatles explosion, the music that came out of Liverpool, he had no doubt, no question, one of the best voices of all of them.

Yeah.

I just get my timing wrong.

Yeah, this one from Gerry and the Pacemakers and, uh, Gerry Marsden's birthday, if he was with us today at five to nine.

[upbeat music] Life goes on day after day.