Gerry & the Pacemakers News

It was a date circled in many teenage diaries - Saturday June 1, 1963 - for this was the occasion when the Granada Cinema in Tooting was to be transformed, for one night only, into a concert arena.

That's a feat only previously achieved by the likes of Gerry & The Pacemakers. Their calling card and signature tune remains Relax , which courted controversy when Radio 1 DJ Mike Read took exception to the sexual content and took it off the air, describing it as "overtly obscene". Having languished in chart obscurity for some time, the record - ...

1978 - Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols attempted suicide while awaiting trial for the murder of his girlfriend Nancy Spungen.

ABERDEEN'S Music Hall and Eden Court Theatre in Inverness will be swinging to the sounds of the Merseybeat as several stars from that era, along with a fab four tribute band, turn the clock back to the 1960s and 70s.

Singer Sonny Turner of The Platters is 70. Singer Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers is 67.

It's all rock 'n' roll all weekend in the Library of Congress theater on Mount Pony.

That ol' Mark Knopfler, he just keeps rollin' along. Can't help but quote the classic Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein 'Show Boat' tune, as it applies so well to the former leader of Dire Straits.

Gerry & the Pacemakers would be in heaven if they lived in Windsor. For those of you who are too young to remember who they are, one of their big hits was "Ferry Cross The Mersey." Imagine what they could do with songs about the Detroit/Windsor ferry and the proposed ferry service to Detroit.

Rock enthusiasts are in for a treat this weekend thanks to the Malta Rock Festival which will be taking place at the National Park in Taa Qali.

Rock enthusiasts are in for a treat this weekend thanks to the Malta Rock Festival which will be taking place at the National Park in Taa Qali.

Rock enthusiasts are in for a treat this weekend thanks to the Malta Rock Festival which will be taking place at the National Park in Taa Qali.

Gordon Thompson is Professor of Music at Skidmore College. His book, Please Please Me: Sixties British Pop, Inside Out , offers an insider's view of the British pop-music recording industry.

KARAOKE fan Keith Krispin Brown was remembered in song as some of his favourite tracks were played at his packed funeral.

GLORIA ESTEFAN'S background is about as Latin American as they get. Growing up in Cuba, her father was the bodyguard of President Fulgencio Batista.

According to author Dr. S.H. Jacob, reading to a toddler is useful, but reading to a baby has little to no intellectual benefit.

It's been almost 45 years since he hit the American charts with "I'm Into Something Good," but Peter Noone, now 61 and speaking on the phone from California, still has that boyish charm that made him a teen idol as lead singer of Herman's Hermits.

The Beatles on Weston beach A BEATLES roadshow will revisit the Winter Gardens this month.

The naming of the new Midhurst Rother College sports hall was a tearjerking, tissue-scrunching testament to the popularity of Jon Barrott, acting head of Midhurst Grammar School, who died earlier this year before seeing the birth of the new school.

Friday November 28: 1.45pm PANTASTIC GUIDE Out today, and free with your Evening News, The Guide this week has a Christmas show round-up; introduces indie outfit Flamboyant Bella; chats up New York band The Virgins; and reveals the finalists for the Evening News Battle of the Bands.

The Liverpudlian band fronted by Holly Johnson are said to also be planning a re-release some of their hits, which include Two Tribes and The Power of Love, to tap into a new generation of fans.