British singer Gerry Marsden, who made the song popular in 1963 You’ll Never Walk Alone With his band Gerry and the Pacemakers, he passed away this Sunday at the age of 78.
The popular version of the piece, composed by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein almost two decades earlier, was adopted as an anthem by fans of the English team Liverpool FC.
In a statement, the club said it was “deeply saddened by the passing of Gerry Marsden.”
Likewise, Liverpool recalled that “the group’s third single, a version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic, became famous around the world as the Liverpool anthem and is sung moments before the start of every home game at Anfield.”
“Sung in times of celebration and commiseration, Gerry’s performance of ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ will always be tied to the club he loved,” lamented the squad.
The Gerry and The Pacemakers version was adopted by Liverpool fans starting in 1963 and later became one of the most famous anthems in football. Other clubs such as Celtic Glasgow, Feyenoord and Borussia Dortmund also opted for it.
Marsden re-recorded the song in April 2020 as a tribute to the British National Health Service during the onset of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Paul McCartney, mythical ex-member of The Beatles, who coincided with Marsden and his group in the 1960s in Liverpool, paid tribute to him on his Twitter account: “Gerry was a companion of our beginnings in Liverpool. He and his group were our elders rivals on the local scene. ” (efe / afp / reuters)
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Legends of the romantic ballad in Latin America
Armando Manzanero
The singer-songwriter Armando Manzanero was born in Mexico in 1935. He died on December 28, 2020, a victim of COVID. The artist was infected in Mérida (Yucatán), where he inaugurated the Casa Manzanero Museum. He wrote more than 400 songs, such as “This afternoon I saw it rain”, “With you I learned” and the iconic “We are boyfriends” that says: “We both feel deep mutual love / And with that we already won the greatest / in this world.”
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Legends of the romantic ballad in Latin America
Jose jose
His audience is in mourning. José José died on September 28, 2019. His name was José Rómulo Sosa and he was born in Mexico City in 1948. Since the OTI 1970 Festival, he was a benchmark for romantic song. “You hunted the seducer’s apprentice / And you fed me on your palm / Making me your humble servant …” lyrics of “Gavilán or dove”, shows who has the last word in love.
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Legends of the romantic ballad in Latin America
Leonardo Favio
“When my love arrives I will tell her so many things / or perhaps I will simply give her a rose”, an almost indelible piece in those who have heard “Simply a rose”, one of the great successes of this singer, author, actor and director of Argentine cinema, born in 1938 and died in 2012. With “You were mine a summer”, the romantic side woke up millions in the middle of the year of protests in 1968.
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Legends of the romantic ballad in Latin America
Roberto Carlos
The Brazilian Roberto Carlos Braga Moreira was born in 1941. Roberto Carlos was the first to convey to the Hispanic world the depth of the feelings of the Brazilian people, and love, as in “The cat that is sad and blue”: “The roses said that you were mine And a cat kept me company / Since you left me, I don’t know why / The window is bigger without your love ”.
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Legends of the romantic ballad in Latin America
Raphael
His real name is Miguel Rafael Martos Sánchez and he was born in 1943 in Linares, Spain, who opened a museum in honor of his figure and his record work. The “precursor” of the romantic song owes its world triumph to Eurovision with “I am the one, who gives life to you, I am the one who, while far away, does not forget you, the one who waits for you, the one who dreams of you, the one who who prays, every night for your love ”.
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Legends of the romantic ballad in Latin America
Julio Iglesias
Julio Iglesias de la Cueva, born in Spain in 1943, was a soccer player, a lawyer, but above all, the most successful singer in the Hispanic world. He set 2 Guiness Record: as the artist who has sold the most albums in more languages, and the Latin artist who has sold the most albums in history. In “Life goes on the same” he assures that “There is always why to live / Why fight / There is always someone to suffer for / And who to love.”
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Legends of the romantic ballad in Latin America
The Puma
José Luis Rodríguez González or El Puma, was born in Venezuela in 1943. Singer, actor and producer. “The man at the top”, his great success from 1972, sounds like a cry from today’s Venezuelan exiles: “I want help, they are innocent / I just can’t, I’m aware / tell me who can say something / I know come closer and two of us shouted ”.
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Legends of the romantic ballad in Latin America
Rocio durcal
Her name was María de los Ángeles de las Heras. She was born in 1944 in Spain, where she died in 2006. In Mexico she is still considered the best Spanish ranchera interpreter. There is no party that does not end with a chorus of “I like you a lot”: “I have not lost hope, to have you in my arms, And that day has to come / I have liked you for a long time, And what I like I get /Safely”.
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Legends of the romantic ballad in Latin America
Sandro
Roberto Sánchez, his real name, was born in Argentina in 1945 and died there in 2010. Besides being the “sexy star” of the romantic song, he also dabbled in pop and rock and roll. Of “Rosa, Rosa” he sold two million records, and drove many more crazy with refrains like “Ay, Rosa, Rosa ask what you want / but never ask / that my love dies / if something has to die / I will die for you”.
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Legends of the romantic ballad in Latin America
Jose Luis Perales
He is a singer-songwriter, composer and writer, born in Spain in 1945. His lyrics are poems that speak of love, nostalgia and peace. Who does not know a version of “Why are you leaving?” In which it expresses the pain of farewell: “All the promises of my love will go with you / You will forget me, you will forget me / And how every night I will cry like a child / Why are you leaving, why are you leaving? “.
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Legends of the romantic ballad in Latin America
Camilo Sesto
His real name was Camilo Blanes Cortés. He was born in Spain in 1946 and died there on September 16, 2019. He was a singer, songwriter and performer of romantic ballads, pop and rock. It was the Jesus in the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar in Spanish. In his song “Free Love”, he is less conservative than he seemed: “Love without barriers / Love without borders / Love of a friend, free love”.
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Legends of the romantic ballad in Latin America
Juan Gabriel
He was a singer, songwriter, record producer, philanthropist, and actor. Alberto Aguilera Valadez, as his name was, was born in Mexico in 1950 and died in the US in 2016. His artistic contribution was enormous in genres such as ballads, ranchera, bolero, and mariachi. Some Mexicans say that you have to know the lyrics of the national anthem, Cielito lindo and, by Juan Gabriel, “Dear / Every moment of my life …”
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Legends of the romantic ballad in Latin America
Paloma San Basilio
The Spanish Paloma San Basilio was born in 1950. She sang in musicals such as Evita, El hombre de La Mancha, My Fair Lady, Victor / Victoria or Sunset Boulevard, but it was the romantic ballads that made her famous, and her liberal stance, as in “Kiss by kiss, sweetly, hug me because I want / feel different, the world does not forgive and I, unfaithful Paloma, prefer to be with you / and not die with him.”
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