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Les Maguire

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Les Maguire (born Leslie Charles Maguire, December 27, 1941, in Wallasey, Cheshire) is a pianist[1].

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 & The Pacemakers, replacing the group's original pianist, Arthur MacMahon. Gerry and the Pacemakers achieved immediate success in the British pop charts and later in the United States. Maguire remained with the group until it faded from the public eye towards the end of the sixties. He briefly fronted the Mississippi Blues band, Hog Owl in 1970 and teamed up with the Pacemakers for occasional reunion performances.