Pacemakers

The Pacemakers were the Beatles 'big Liverpudlian rivals, and if you've not seen them perform before, you might find yourself at a loss to explain how this was possible.

Expecting Rain Salon 2010

As unfathomable as it seems from the distance of over 30 years, for a few months, Gerry & the Pacemakers were the Beatles 'nearest competitors in Britain.

Fulldls.com 2008

Jerry and the Pacemakers: You know immediately what sort of band they are, unless you hear "pacemaker" as a medical device and think that they're going to show up in walkers and plaid pants buckled beneath their pot bellies.

David Weinberger: Rating 1960s Bands' Names David Weinberger 2011

Pacemakers are minimally invasive and he'll be back to running around with the grandkids and great-grandkids in no time.

Tick Tock Erin Zulkoski 2011

Gerry Marsden and the Pacemakers' yearning ballad, Ferry Cross the Mersey, which made the top 10 in both the UK and the US in 1964-65, is the top hum and whistle on the cheerful weekday service which shuttles commuters between 7.20am and 7pm.

Britain's Best Views: the Mersey ferry, Liverpool 2011

Jerry and the Pacemakers: You know immediately what sort of band they are, unless you hear "pacemaker" as a medical device and think that they're going to show up in walkers and plaid pants buckled beneath their pot bellies.

David Weinberger: Rating 1960s Bands' Names David Weinberger 2011

Pacemakers keep the heart beating at the proper rate. 120,000 defibrillators are implanted every year in the U.S. Defibrillators shock the heart to prevent death from a cardiac arrest.

Getting Around the Scan Ban Ron Winslow 2011

And every song he picked for us to record - that we didn't record - he gave to Jerry and the Pacemakers, or they're Brian Epstein acts usually.

Ringo Starr: The Drums Are Where The Soul Is 2010

Bursting with original interviews with the three surviving Beatles plus George Martin and the whole supporting cast, as well as bootleg rarities such as the band's first ever scratchy recording and the Fabs 'pre-Pacemakers cover of How Do You Do It?

Six to watch: The Beatles on TV 2010

Their parents can explain the origins of the term "Merseybeat" after listening to Eric Brace and Last Train Home strum the songs of Gerry and the Pacemakers.

Nightlife agenda 2010