GREATGOLD – GERRY MARSDEN (pic-center, holding guitar), the retired lead singer of Gerry & The Pacemakers, one of the 1960’s “British Invasion” bands, has died after a brief illness. Marsden was 78 at the time of his death. In September 2003 Marsden had triple bypass heart surgery at Broad Green Hospital in Liverpool. He had a second heart operation in 2016, and announced his retirement in November 2018. Marsden died on January 3, 2021 at Arrowe Park Hospital in Merseyside, after being diagnosed with a blood infection in his heart.
GERRY & THE PACEMAKERS’ popular hits include “Ferry Across The Mersey”, “It’s Gonna Be Alright”, “How Do You Do It”, and “Don’t Let the Sun Catch You Crying”, all included in the music library of GreatGold.fm Internet Radio, the home of Classic Rock, Pop Oldies, Newbies, and Classic Hit Wannabees. CLICK ON LISTEN HERE to go to the GreatGold Audio Player to hear the GREATGOLD Oldies Mix from the past Seventy Years of the greats from The Soundtrack of Life.
It’s easy to tune in GreatGold using the player on our website, or in your favorite mobile player app, or from one of many online directories. See the list on our website for app and directory suggestions. You’ll find our site on the internet at http://GreatGold.fm, that’s why we often say GREATGOLD-DOT-FM in between songs, as a reminder that’s where you’ll find our internet radio stream.
THE MUSIC HEARD on GreatGold Internet Radio is curated, cataloged, processed into digital, programed for presentation on the internet, presented, and announced by Gary W. Morgan.
Before getting involved in internet radio, Gary’s professional career from 1966-2002 included on-air experience as a broadcast radio announcer, personality, music director, program director, commercial continuity director, commercial copywriter, commercial production specialist, news reporter, news director, radio rock show host, on-air interviewer, news anchor, and salesperson. He even managed a broadcast radio station in the 1970s before being editor of a newspaper for several years.
Since the turn of the century, Gary Morgan has been adapting all of his combined years of work and talents on the internet as a webmaster, content provider, editor, website developer-builder, website graphics creator, and manager-producer-music director-voice for GreatGold.fm Internet Radio. The latter is the occupation he likely enjoys the most. The music he plays on GreatGold.fm is music that he has purchased, and listened to his entire life, from the years in his baby crib, through high school dating, marriage, fatherhood, and into the now, his semi-retirement years.
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GREATGOLD is GreatGold.fm, and ClassicHitOldies.com, and GreatGoldHits.com, and GreatGoldMusic.com. No matter which you choose, you'll always get GreatGold. We play Classic Hits from the 1950s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and the best of the 2000s, 2010s, and beyond. Sometimes you'll hear a song in the Rock category, or Pop, Blues, Motown, Disco, Soul, Country Crossover, Soft Rock, male and female singers, boy bands, girl bands, and once in awhile you may hear an outstanding independent or new artist with a Classic Hits Wannabee.
The GreatGold Classic Hits Mix consists of, generally, Top 40 hits from the past, and, occasionally, songs that should have been. We play the Best of More Than 60+ years of The Greatest Music from Life's Soundtrack. The finest of the last half of the 20th Century, mixed in with gems from the 21st Century. No matter which Genre the Songs first fell into, or, which type of radio station first played them, it's a tune we call GREATGOLD, and, part of the History of Rock and Roll.
THE GREATGOLD STREAM is the place to be for 24 hours of blissful listening everyday. We have a healthy serving of delicious songs from the Soundtrack of Your Life. Only the finest survive the wars of GreatGold Hits, and We Always Play The Greats at GreatGold.fm Internet Radio.
