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The affable, good-natured older brother from the equally outgoing singer/guitarist Gerry Marsden, Freddie Marsden was the drummer within their group Gerry & the Pacemakers. They began in skiffle music, Freddie playing an improvised percussion set-up — his 1st snare drum was tossed together from the males’ dad — before graduating …

As unfathomable since it seems from the length of more than 40 years, for a couple weeks, Gerry & the Pacemakers were the Beatles’ closest rivals in Britain. Managed (just like the Beatles) by Brian Epstein, Gerry Marsden and his music group burst from the gate with three consecutive number …