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Unafraid to drop a line like “My name’s Shaniqua and what?”, it was only a matter of time before N-Dubz turned their large underground following into mainstream success. Now, having shifted over 500,000 copies of debut disc Uncle B and reached No.1 alongside Tinchy Stryder, the Camden trio are aiming to become leaders of the Brrap pack with second album Against All Odds.

Reflecting their move up pop’s pecking order, this trailer single is their biggest, most bombastic moment yet. It’s got hawkish sirens and loads of clubby synths - evidently inspired by Fraser T. Smith’s production on the Tinchy album - but the N-Dubz music videos haven’t lost their usual quirky charm, dropping in oh-so-relevant references to Facebook and LBDs (that’s “little black dress”, fellas). With an appeal that extends far beyond the back of the bus, ‘I Need You’ is - to borrow a word from the inimitable Dappy - probably best described as a “smasher”.

N-Dubz have promised that their new album Against All Odds is full of “smashers”.

The Camden trio, who release the follow-up to Uncle B on November 16, admitted that they feel confident with the final version.

“You can expect some smashers. It’s got an epic and clubby sound with lots of powerful songs that were all produced by us,” rapper Dappy told DS.

“It’s a very personal record in that we did it all in the studio by ourselves. The songs are like our children and we’re very protective over them.”

The group, who teamed up with collaborators including Gary Barlow and Mr Hudson, praised the Take That star for agreeing to work with them.

“He’s got a heavy schedule with Take That but he came to the studio and wrote a song with us,” Dappy added.

Gerry Marsden was born on Sept 24, 1942 in Liverpool, England. His brother, Freddie was born on October 23, 1940 in Liverpool, they formed a group called The Mars Bars (hoping to get backing from the candy company–instead, they were invited to a lawsuit and then changed their name to the Pacemakers). Les Chadwick (born John Leslie Chadwick) on May 11, 1943 in Liverpool, originally worked as a bank clerk before joining the band in 1959. He was their lead guitarist before moving to bass. Les Maguire (born Leslie Maguire on December 27, 1941 in Wallasey-Cheshire) joined the band in 1960 (?) after their original piano player, Arthur McMahon left the group. Gerry and the Pacemakers greatest hits are still being played today.

They were the second group to be managed by Brian Epstein, who was also the Beatles’ manager. Their first three singles went to number one (a feat that was unbeaten until recently). The band enjoyed great success between 1964-1966 even releasing a full length feature film, Ferry ‘Cross the Mersey, in which Gerry Marsden wrote nine of the songs. In 1967 the group disbanded, Gerry found another love in acting and the band could not keep up with the musical changes of the late 1960s. To my knowledge, none of the original Pacemakers are involved in the music industry today, except Gerry himself.

Gerry Marsden formed the group in 1959 with his brother, Fred, Les Chadwick and Arthur McMahon. They rivalled the Beatles early in their career, playing in the same areas of Hamburg, Germany and Liverpool, England. McMahon (known as Arthur Mack) was replaced on piano by Les Maguire around 1961. They are known to have rehearsed at Cammell Laird shipping yard at Birkenhead.

The band was the second to sign with Brian Epstein, who later signed them with Columbia Records (a sister label to The Beatles label Parlophone under EMI). They began recording in early 1963 with “How Do You Do It?”, a song written by Mitch Murray that Adam Faith had turned down and one that The Beatles chose not to release (they did record the song but insisted on releasing their own song “Please Please Me”). The song was produced by George Martin and became a number one hit in the UK, until being replaced at the top by “From Me to You”, The Beatles’ third single.

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Classical guitars are based on the classical mode of music and follow classically oriented instructions. But the modern day guitar tablatures follow a slightly different course from that of classical notations. Playing classical guitar is more inclined to figure work and plucking. Therefore, these classical guitar tablatures are more meticulously structured and they are much more complex and intertwined with more uses of notes (i.e. C, Bb, G, A, F, F#, etc) than others.

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