Famously, and noted so often it’s a cliché, they were the first British group to score three number ones with their first three singles: "How do You do it?" "I Like it" and "You’ll Never Walk Alone." ...

Gerry and the Pacemakers were the Beatles’ greatest early rivals during the “Merseybeat” music phenomenon that sprang from the city of Liverpool, on the banks of the river Mersey, in the early 1960s.