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Gerry & the Pacemakers

One of the original Merseybeat bands who took the pop world by storm with The Beatles, Gerry & the Pacemakers created a chart record that stood for nearly 20 years (until equaled by another Liverpool band, Frankie Goes to Hollywood) by going to Number 1 with their first three singles. The original 1959 line-up of Gerry and Freddie Marsden with Les Chadwick and Arthur Mack were originally called Gerry Marsden and the Mars Bars, but they changed to Gerry & the Pacemakers after a complaint from the makers of Mars chocolate bars. They cut their teeth playing at Liverpool's Cavern and...