Maguire

Les Maguire was the last member of the classic lineup of Gerry & the Pacemakers to join that group, alongside Gerry Marsden, Freddie Marsden, and Les Chadwick. He served as the band's keyboard player from 1961 until their breakup five years later. Born Leslie Charles Maguire in Wallasey, Merseyside, England, in 1941, his entry into professional music came about not as pianist but as a tenor saxophone player in a Liverpool band called the Bob Evans & the Five Shillings, who renamed themselves the Vegas Five in 1959. About two years after that, they became the Undertakers, and...