I was born in the early 60s in Liverpool, so it was great as a child to see so many of the pop groups on the radio/telly were from Liverpool.
Now everyone from Liverpool in that period would tell you how they were related to or knew The Beatles etc. whether they did or not! However, in this case my mother knew Gerry Marsden’s mother, they came from the same part of Liverpool. My mother had me and my sister late, she was 42 when I was born so I’m in a generational slip, I should be in my late 70s like Gerry was not in my late 50s.
We did live about 15 mins walk from Paul McCartney’s family home when he had just become famous and my grandmother ended living only a couple of minutes or so from there too.
As for Gerry, well he did have his guitar up high when he was young! I think I have some original singles of his that were bought for me and my sister at the time along with Beatles and other “popular beat combos” of the time in a box of tat I cleared from my late mother’s house. I don’t really want them but like a box of toy motor cars from my childhood also recovered, I can’t quite bring myself to dump them.
Gerry’s B sides and upbeat R’n’B songs are rather good IMHO, more so than his ballads, but I quite like lots of those white British beat groups who borrowed from the black American artists of the time.