Gerry Marsden You Will Never Walk Alone

had a heart attack the sound of that monitor Now Jerry the reason you brought all of these PWS of yours together of course was to make a special record of your 1960s hit You'll Never Walk Alone to boost the fun setup after the tragic fire at Bradford City football ground with that record Jerry Maron and his clows here raised £200,000 of which 100,000 went to the Bradford City fire disaster fund and £100,000 to help set up a hospital of burns unit Jerry it was the second time in your career you'd had You'll Never Walk Alone at number one in the charts the first was back in 1963 and with it Jerry and the Pacemakers became the first group in popular music history to have number one hits with their first three recordings because earlier that year had come these two I like it I like the words you say and know the things you do and I like the way you Shing my side and I like the way you're wi in your ey and I know I like you you know I like you hello I'll do you do what you do to me I wish I knew if I knew how you do it to me I do it to you [Applause] a few days after your first wet went on sale you had a lunchtime date with your greatest fan you treated her and yourself to a big bag of fish and chips and you sat on a bench in a park in Liverpool to eat them and then you told her you told her the news you've been bursting to tell her all morning that your record had leap straight to the top of the charts and I said that's marvelous Jerry but when are you going to get a proper job so we can get married well you didn't get that proper job J but she married you anyway yes from your home in Willis Cher your wife [Applause] Pauling I'm paing it was on October the 11th 1965 the Jew and Jerry walked down the aisle of St Mary's Church Wilton Liverpool and two years later Jerry more calls for celebration when Paul present you with a baby daughter now that baby is 18 years old and of course she too is here tonight your daughter [Applause] IET Paul and after the happiness of iet's birth came sad news yes s we were told that we could never have any more children so you could scarcely believe it when 13 years later your doctor had some important news for you yes that I was on my way yes J you call her your Miracle child your 5-year-old daughter [Applause] [Music] Vicki Len she a great girl and Vicki tell me did you did you bring anybody with you tonight yes I put my my two grand nannas and my two grandads she did too Jerry from Liverpool your parents Fred and Mary paing serum Ruth and Jerry and with them your brother Fred his wife Margaret and their daughter Sarah James and your cousin Peter [Music] I tell it was in the early 60s that Liverpool's Cavern Club became famous and it was there that you and Pauline first met and uh this group that we're just going to have a look at you actually beat to number one in the charts when he with no hard feelings from the Beatles one of them in fact who although he can't be here tonight is a special pal who went on to become perhaps the most successful musician over our time he's taken time out to to make a home movie Just For You Paul McCartney hello Jerry hello Pauline hello Aon Andrew hello folks how you doing Jerry Pauline Freddy all the family and not forgetting Aon of course hello aan how you doing all right all Wonder remember when we were back in Liverpool there in the very early days and uh there was a music paper called the Mery beat and there was a poll in that to see who's the most popular group in Liverpool and of course we wanted to win it you wanted to win it all the groups wanted to win it so what we did was we went around to all the news agents and we brought up a lot of copies of this paper and we took them home to our families and we'd say you know see if you can fill in your uh favorite group like hint hint anyway the trouble was we couldn't find too many of these papers because I think Jerry had been nipping around to these news AG before we had and it uh scoffed a lot and he took them all home to his friends and uh it was a very close thing in that pole as you remember Jerry but we managed to just pip you and I think both of us went on to uh greater things and we had a good laugh on the way so I'd like to say to you all have a lovely evening wonderful time and uh all the best for me and mine and remember all fair oh no thank you did you really buy up all those papers yes M didn't you m well Jerry Maron this is your life when you were born in Liverpool September 24th 1942 and brought up here at 8 meny Street in the Dingle and your house proud mom there thought were that you were a trendy dresser from the very start now school is our is Our Lady of manl and the Dingle where because you have a natural soprano voice you frequently sing in school concerts and in the church choir you're also good at sport you're goalkeeper in the school's junior soccer team a member of the local boxing club and many a rounds you had there and jelly maybe I was the one who persuaded you to stick to singing with the right hook to the chin he stuck to boxing and fought his way right to the top former British Commonwealth and European bate Champion your school days pal Alan rkin [Applause] so Alan you must take some credit for uh shaping his career as a singer yeah when we were kid you know we we all want to be Fighters didn't we you know so one night me and Jerry were matched up you know at the local Mount C Boxing Club and uh I was on good form that night I whacked him a couple of times in events never again I think I'll be a singer thank you Alan rodkin Al course there's another Boxer here tonight former world champion John conter you know personally of course that uh despite the couple of Clips he got from Allan he remained very much a fight fan yes very much so a and he loves the fight Jerry and he was when I knew he was in the audience to support me as he was at times really cheed me off give me a lot of encouragement you know and inspiration and just as his music did great well done J thank you Jill thank you all Jerry your your dad felt of course that you'd be better off sticking to music and singing too and when you were 10 years old he bought you a guitar soon afterwards Fred you helped Jerry from a school boy skiffle group to play in talent contests and local pubs and clubs now what was the name you gave that group Jerry mouses and the mesb well Jerry your brother Fred there also played in that group in fact there were five of you in all yes Jerry because I was a marsbar and I was a marbar and I was a marsbar too that was back in the mid-50s Jerry for the first time in 30 years we unwrapped the marsbars your school days filed Kenneth Dixie Tommy Ryan and [Applause] [Music] Jimmy than the mar after you leave school Jerry you have a number of jobs but music is still your great love Yeah and again with your brother Fred you form another group Jerry and the Pacemakers and by the early 60s are playing regularly at the Caron club and there you and Pauline become close friends of someone who has gone a long way since you used to help in the cloak room there and if you look at that screen Jerry you'll see she's gone a long way again of course your old pal Sil black hi Jerry hi Paulie hey I'm so sorry I can't be with you there tonight but I'm over here in the Middle East entertaining all those Lawrence of arabas actually they're very they're very kind to me you know they' bought me a Rolls-Royce the only trouble is it's got two ooms on its back hey Jerry tonight tonight I know is a very very special night and it must be absolutely marvelous to have all your family and all your friends sharing it with you I'm only sorry I can't be there with you too it's going to be a very special night the best that you'll always remember for the rest of your life enjoy it lad I'll see you when I get home ter all then [Applause] thanks 1964 Jerry you're so well established in the pop world you keep an eye open for new challenges and when you're offered a major role in the film you leap with the chance on the first day of filming you begin to dream about the Glamorous film star life and on the second day you began to think you should have taken more of those boxing lessons when you had the chance as it happened yes he too harbored hopes of film stardom back in 64 but instead he fixed it to make his career in television your good pal Jimmy Sav [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so why was Young jelly here in need of boxing lessons this aspiring film St I was working on one of his films and the day that I went to film at the gr rooms in Liverpool a terrible fight broke out and it was for real and it looked so good on the screen the producer said keep it in and people were saying to me marvelous axes or Scrappers weren't they said no my Liverpool friends with Jerry Mars at the lead they were so I should have had a bit more boxing that's true actually well a bet hasn't changed his mind about being a film star has he he's better looking now this still owes me three quid as well oh no thank you Jimmy colle 1968 Jerry after a decade as a successful pop singer you take on a completely new challenge when you're offered a leading role in a hit West End Musical and you're too nervous that when you go there and you think that the lad from Liverpool might be a little out of his depth in these new surroundings until you arrive at the theater and hear this greeting hell old Jack don't worry you old think of be GE yes a surprise with authentic Liverpool welcome from your usually terribly terribly Posh pile Derek [Applause] Nimo Charlie girl was Jerry's first experience in the West End and you decided that you'd try and take him under your wings so to speak well not very terribly but he treated me fairly appallingly in a way I remember getting into his dressing room one night and he said to me that he'd like me to meet this freelance drama critic friend of his and he wasn't a very prepossessing sort of fellow he had terrible decayed teeth I remember hump back and club foot and a withered hand and Jerry was wonderfully kind and generous to him and gave him glasses of whiskey and gin the man drank everything he had and every time Jerry went on stage this awful Gastly little CL kept saying most appalling things about Jerry so when Jerry finally came off St I said Jerry and this man he's supposed to be a friend of yours and he's been saying these Gastly things about you all night he said JS what's he say I told him what he say the little rat the little G and he pic he got her this sck and start to hit him on his hump pushed him on the ground kicked and I you little swine you little rat you little I said Jerry for goodness I said St on chap St on chap I thought he was going to kill this eventually I pull him apart I said I think this fell is dead and then I discovered I've been totally set up it hard an act to come in dressed up as a with and leg and and and Jerry he's still a friend of yours to this day your pal and partner that leg pull Larry Viner oh no Min thank you Larry and J Nimo Now Jerry one of your greatest memories of that show of course is meeting and of course starring with one of the great ladies of the theater Dam I an [Music] [Applause] eagle tell us how did you feel about co-staring with a young pup performer who' rocket it to fame with the mercy s well but I I'd already been in Charlie girl for two years when Jerry joined us and you know apart from being so wied as they used to call it then us I think they've dropped that now haven't they I found he was such a good natural actor and and a model of Old World courtesy we soon became great friends didn't we thank you s still great friends thank you d man and Eagle thank you thank you L on our joury the early 60s you had with the record bying public meant that you were now on demand to make appearances the length and breadth of Britain so you and your group hit the road and on many a lengthly tiring tour you traveled countless hundreds of miles yeah well that's true because he travel loads of miles but he brought smiles to many people it was a real little rascal yes an up and coming comic he toured with you 20 years ago of course your great mate Jimmy t well it sounds as though Jerry made traveling a lot easier well he was great you know he was quite unique he said about the three songs being in the Hip Parade I was the compare of his show and we had a hero on the show Benny King the American Entertainer and we were in uh England going up to Scotland and he he said I mean I'm known for practical jokes said let's have a laugh with Benny King tell him we're going to another country so he sat in the coach Ben I said have you ever been to Scotland Ben no man he said I thought it was another country you know I said they're wild up there you got to change your passport and your money he said no it's Great Britain I said no no no it's different sent a road manager on ahead and he stopped the coach just outside greter green and he went all out and here's this poor American he said what the hell's going on I said well Ben get out so we all stood there he said let's have the Scottish Allegiance O So I said I'll start it off I said you take the high road I take the high road you take the low road and here's this poor Benny King an American visitor to us we're like keeping straight faces and like we all got he said well this is ridiculous he's said having to do this across borders and like he didn't know for 5 days that we'd pull this gag on him yeah kill us I bet he wasn't I can tell you Jerry that home in North Carolina these last 20 years that guy's never forgotten that experience yes you took your own Road and I on my road and I'm back in England to greet you yes CH toing lead singer of the internationally famous American groups The Drifters van e [Applause] [Music] [Applause] what made you finally catch on to the fact that they were pulling your leg well I don't think I ever caught on to that it was about four or five days later on my way out I think it's when I felt comfortable and nobody looked for your B nobody looked for the B thank you Betty King and Jimmy TR and from those days with Jimmy and Benny You' never stopped here North America Australia Canada and won a whole new generation of fans with children's television but before we finish a happy memory from the start of your career as Jerry and the Pacemakers I take this opportunity to introduce you to the members of our group gra on DRS John Frederick marman piano Leslie Charles Maguire and un base John Leslie can't we let's have a closer look at that film from 30 years ago Jerry that's your brother on drums John Frederick Mars and your colum who's here tonight on keyboard Leslie Charles Maguire who's now a royal Navy chief petty officer stationed at the Clyde submarine base Scotland and on bass guitar that's John Leslie CH as you call him who's a businessman in Sydney Australia but believe it or not together for the first time since 1968 the Pacemakers Le [Applause] we opened our surprise tonight with that great hit of yours You'll Never Walk Alone everybody knows of course that it became the anthem of the supporters of Liverpool Football Club whose players were your sporting Heroes but oddly enough although you knew several players you'd never met the whole team and ironically you have to travel 3,000 miles to New York to do that you and your group were appearing on the thing Ed Sullivan [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Show we you lighted tonight to have in our audience one of the great soccer teams of England the Liverpool team that won the English league fight would you stand up gentlemen all of you everybody El well come on now America let's hear it Liverpool and for you on this special night Jerry from that Old conquering Liverpool football team of 21 years ago Ron Yates Tommy Lawrence Jerry burn Bill Stevenson Tommy Smith Peter Thompson Ian Kahan and now half of a famous television double X Ian St John [Music] Jerry since you recorded It You'll Never Walk Alone as most often sung of course by choirs of thousands of football fans but there was one very special occasion when it was sung by one lone voice the occasion the memorial service for your great friend the legendary Liverpool manager Bill shankley the place Liverpool Cathedral the lone voice yours for my pal Shanks God bless him when you walk through a stor hold your head up high and don't be afraid of the dark that was the special request of a lady who I know you regard as very special Bill shanky's wife your dear friend Nessie Shank [Applause] this is your life thank you very

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Keywords: Gerry Marsden (Composer), Music (TV Genre), You'll Never Walk Alone (Composition), You'll Never Walk Alone (Musical Recording), Pop Music (Musical Genre), Liverpool, Kirby, Your, Life, Cry

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Length: 21min 10sec (1270 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 23 2015