Gerry and the Pacemakers another number one single in the UK. Marsden began writing most of their songs, including "I'm the One","It's Gonna Be All Right" and "Ferry Cross the Mersey", as well as their first and biggest US hit, "Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying", which peaked at No.4. The band also starred in an early 1965 film, "Ferry Cross the Mersey" (sometimes referred to as "Gerry and the Pacemakers' version of "A Hard Day's Night""), for which Marsden wrote much of the soundtrack. The title song was revived in 1989 as a charity single for an appeal in response to the
Samuel Marsden Reggae band 1814 took their name from the year that Marsden held the first sermon in the Bay of Islands. Samuel Marsden Samuel Marsden (25 June 1765 – 12 May 1838) was an English-born priest of the Church of England in Australia and a prominent member of the Church Missionary Society, believed to have introduced Christianity to New Zealand. Marsden was a prominent figure in early New South Wales and Australian history, partly through his ecclesiastical offices as the colony's senior Church of England cleric and as a pioneer of the Australian wool industry, but also for his employment of