"Ferry Cross the Mersey" is a song written by Gerry Marsden. It was first recorded by his band Gerry and the Pacemakers and released in late 1964 in the...
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Ferry Cross the Mersey is a 1964 British musical film directed by Jeremy Summers and starring Gerry and the Pacemakers. It was written by David Franden...
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025°W / 53.416; -3.025 The Mersey Ferry is a ferry service operating on the River Mersey in northwest England, between Liverpool to the east and Birkenhead...
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Ferry Cross the Mersey is the soundtrack for the 1965 film of the same title, starring Gerry and the Pacemakers, who recorded the titular song. Both the...
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"Ferry Cross the Mersey" by Gerry and the Pacemakers. Its name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon mǣres, 'of a boundary' and ēa, 'a river'. The Mersey was...
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Gerry Marsden (category Members of the Order of the British Empire)
the United States Billboard pop charts. Their 1965 musical film Ferry Cross the Mersey was co-written by Tony Warren. Marsden was born at 8 Menzies Street...
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Marsden's death in 2021, "Ferry Cross the Mersey" did not re-enter the main UK singles chart but instead peaked at number 64 on the UK Official Singles Sales...
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the mid-1980s success of fellow Liverpool band Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Another of their most famous songs, "Ferry Cross the Mersey", refers to the...
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Relax (song) (category Controversies in the United Kingdom)
mobbed by teenyboppers". On all of the original 12-inch releases, the B-side featured a cover of "Ferry 'Cross the Mersey", followed by a brief dialogue involving...
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the Police Sergeant in the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night (1964) and as the art professor in the Gerry & the Pacemakers film Ferry Cross the Mersey...
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McCartney on the Gerry and the Pacemakers hit – "Ferry Cross the Mersey" – recorded to raise funds for the victims and their families of the Hillsborough...
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Les Maguire (category Gerry and the Pacemakers members)
Ferry Cross the Mersey. Maguire remained with the group until it faded from the public eye towards the end of the 1960s. Maguire briefly fronted the Mississippi...
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performers on a version of "Ferry Cross the Mersey", released in aid of those affected by the Hillsborough disaster. The single stayed at number one for...
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Margaret Nolan (category Actors from the London Borough of Camden)
theatre productions and films. The latter included A Hard Day's Night with the Beatles, Ferry Cross the Mersey with Gerry and the Pacemakers, and Marcel Carné's...
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Gerry and the Pacemakers and contributed to the "Ferry Cross the Mersey" charity single in 1989. Gladys Knight, formerly of Gladys Knight & The Pips, had...
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the Elliott-Clarke Drama School. In 1965, she made her first film appearance in Ferry Cross the Mersey as an uncredited extra. Sladen then joined the...
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of his favorite songs, "My Song" by Keith Jarrett and "Ferry Cross the Mersey" by Gerry and the Pacemakers, and a more recent favorite, "Don't Know Why"...
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A Hard Day's Night (film) (category Films about the Beatles)
Gerry and the Pacemakers film Ferry Cross the Mersey (1965). In 1999, the British Film Institute ranked it the 88th-greatest British film of the 20th century...
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formerly of Cliff Roberts & the Rockers. The band successfully auditioned for the Gerry & the Pacemakers film Ferry Cross the Mersey, and their amplifiers were...
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Holly Johnson (category Scouse culture of the early 1980s)
single "Ferry Cross the Mersey" with Paul McCartney, the Christians and others. The single reached number 1 in the UK and Ireland. After the 1990 remix...
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Seacombe (category Towns and villages in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral)
these is one of the terminals for the Mersey Ferry, the legendary "Ferry 'cross the Mersey" described by Gerry & The Pacemakers. The ferry travels in a triangular...
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Allmusic bio "The Fourmost". Discogs. Freddie and The Dreamers Allmusic bio Jonathan King Allmusic bio "With a "Ferry Cross the Mersey" type beat and...
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songs of 1965. The Top 100, as revealed in the year-end edition of Billboard dated December 25, 1965, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of...
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Paul McCartney (redirect from Back in the World (tour))
Kampuchea, Ferry Aid, Band Aid, Live Aid, Live 8, and the recording of "Ferry Cross the Mersey". In 2004, he donated a song to an album to aid the "US Campaign...
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The MV Royal Iris of the Mersey is a Mersey Ferry in operation on the River Mersey, England. From launch in Devon in 1959 until a major refurbishment in...
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- Pink Floyd Ferry Cross the Mersey - Gerry & the Pacemakers Going Down to Liverpool - The Bangles I Wish I Was Back In Liverpool - The Dubliners In My...
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Laurie Records (category Defunct record labels of the United States)
The company also licensed English records during the British Invasion period, including "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying" (1964) and "Ferry Cross the...
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in the film Ferry Cross the Mersey (a Gerry & The Pacemakers vehicle), as the losers in a battle of the bands, but this footage was cut from the film's...
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from various films entered the top 10 throughout the year. These included "Ferry Cross the Mersey" (Ferry Cross the Mersey), "Help!" and "Ticket to Ride"...
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Richard's "The Girl Can't Help It" and "Heebie-Jeebies". The band appeared in the 1965 film Ferry Cross the Mersey and on the soundtrack album of the same name...
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