B6 - Sunday, June 24, 1984 - Nurth Shore News

GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS
Viersey sound comes to Plaza

GERRY MARSDEN, the man who has been
through three sets of Pacemakers in twenty five
years, is nowhere near giving up the rock and roll
life or the touring lifestyle that goes with it.

The ‘Gerry’ of Gerry and
the Pacemakers, and only
remaining original member,
says he’s having too much
fun, and watching him on
Stage it’s not hard to believe.
“‘] didn’t intend staying on

By NANCY WEATHERLEY

the road this long, but I love
it.

‘‘Audiences don't change,
they’re all kids from 17 to

99. I'd pack it in if it became
a battie.”” Opening night
Wednesday, Marsden’s only
battle seemed to be stopping
the applause so he could get
on with the next” song.
Marsden looks a bit like a
musical anachronism on
stage: a middle aged man,
with receeding hair and
middle age spread, playing
electric guitar surrounded by
much younger band
members. But his voice

sounds almost exactly the
same as it always has.

The band plays the hits
you'd expect, Ferry Cross
the Mersey, Don’t Let the
Sun Catch You Crying, I
Like It, | Like It, You’ll
Never Walk Alone, as well
as hits by artists ranging
from Chuck Berry to Carole
King.

According to Marsden,
Gerry and the Pacemakers
started out in Liverpool in
the late ‘50s strictly for fun.
**We'd never made a penny,
neither had the Beatles,. the
band just kept us out of
prison.’’ Then Love Me Do
and Please Please Me were
released by the Beatles.
**‘Suddenly 47 billion bands
started playing in Liver-
pool.’’ Marsden admits he
wouldn't have been as suc-
cessful had it not been for
the Beatles. ‘‘They opened
the door. Before the Beatles
nobody ever came to
Liverpool for bands, they
went to London.”’

overlooki

See page B7

NEWS photo Stuart Davis
GERRY MARSDEN gives the audience a litthe romance in

one of the quieter moments of the Gerry and the Pacemakers
show at Plazazz.

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