Gerry and the Pacemakers

…the Searchers, the Fourmost, and Gerry and the Pacemakers—plus the quintet Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas—launched “Merseybeat,” so named for the estuary that runs alongside Liverpool. The Beatles first reached the British record charts in late 1962 (shortly after the Tornados’ “Telstar,” an instrumental smash that sent word of…

…several other acts, among them Gerry and the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, and Cilla Black. In 2014 Epstein was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame—one of the first two managers to receive that honor.

…in which their fellow Liverpudlians Gerry and the Pacemakers established Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s “You’ll Never Walk Alone” as the most sung song in the stands of football (soccer) stadiums in Britain.