Les Maguire Les Maguire Leslie Charles "Les" Maguire (born 27 December 1941, Wallasey, Cheshire) is an English pianist. Maguire started his career, playing tenor saxophone in a Liverpool pop group, the Vegas Five, which later changed its name to the Undertakers. Maguire later left in order to join the Merseybeat group, Gerry and the Pacemakers, replacing the group's original pianist, Arthur MacMahon. In 1961, the Beatles and Gerry and the Pacemakers merged to become the 'Beatmakers', for a one-off performance in Litherland Town Hall. The line-up comprised Gerry Marsden, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Les Chadwick, Pete Best, Freddy Marsden, plus
Gerry Blattner Gerry Blattner Gerry Blattner was a British Film Producer who worked on many films produced by Warner Bros. in the UK. Gerry Blattner was a British film producer and Executive Producer, best known for producing the Oscar- and BAFTA-nominated and Golden Globe winning feature film The Sundowners and co-producing the television adaptation of I, Claudius. Son of Ludwig Blattner (also a film producer, as well as an inventor), Gerry (real first name Gerard) followed his father into the film business. He was a production supervisor on My Lucky Star in 1933, which was filmed at the Blattner Studios in Elstree.