The Crowd (band) The Crowd (band) The Crowd was a charity supergroup formed specifically to produce a charity record for the Bradford City stadium fire, in which 56 people died on 11 May 1985. The group consisted of singers, actors, television personalities and others. Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers had decided to make a charity record to aid the families of the victims of the disaster (the "Bradford City Disaster Fund"). The re-recording of the 1963 number 1 hit song "You'll Never Walk Alone" from the broadway musical "Carousel", also a 'football anthem' for Liverpool supporters, entered the UK charts at
William Marsden (diplomat) two children, Inge and Thomas. William Marsden (diplomat) William Marsden (born 15 September 1940 ) is a former British diplomat (British Ambassador to Argentina from 1997 to 2000 and to Costa Rica and Nicaragua concurrently from 1989 to 1992). Since 2001 his work has been primarily concerned with nature conservation, currently as Chairman of the Chagos Conservation Trust. Marsden studied history and economics at Cambridge and London Universities and joined the Foreign Office in 1963. For much of the 1960s and 1970s his career was concerned with strategic "East-West" relations, in the UK Delegation to NATO, the Foreign and Commonwealth