Famously, and noted so often it’s a cliché, they were the first British group to score three number ones with their first three singles: "How do You do it?" "I Like it" and "You’ll Never Walk Alone." ...

LONDON — Gerry Marsden, lead singer of the 1960s British group Gerry and the Pacemakers that had such hits as “Ferry Cross the Mersey” and the song that became the anthem of Liverpool Football Club, ...

Gerry and the Pacemakers were the Beatles’ greatest early rivals during the “Merseybeat” music phenomenon that sprang from the city of Liverpool, on the banks of the river Mersey, in the early 1960s.

Gerry Marsden, frontman of the British band Gerry and the Pacemakers and singer on hits like “You’ll Never Walk Alone,” “Ferry Cross the Mersey” and “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying,” has died at ...

Gerry Marsden, one of British rock and roll’s earliest icons, has died at 78. Marsden was the leader of iconic Merseybeat band Gerry and the Pacemakers, who — like fellow Liverpool band The Beatles — ...

LONDON — Gerry Marsden, lead singer of the 1960s British group Gerry and the Pacemakers that had such hits as “Ferry Cross the Mersey” and the song that became the anthem of Liverpool Football Club, ...

LONDON — Gerry Marsden, lead singer of the 1960s British group Gerry and the Pacemakers that had such hits as “Ferry Cross the Mersey” and the song that became the anthem of Liverpool Football Club, ...