Musician John Walker, 67, died of cancer of the liver

LOS ANGELES - John Walker, the American musician who was the leader of the Group of brothers Walker, one of the most successful groups of the golden age of rock Britain ' does roll, died at the age of 67.

Walker died Saturday of cancer of the liver, his personal assistant, Polly Klemmer, told Associated Press. He continued to work until a few weeks making his last appearance in concert in Los Angeles in March, Klemmer said Sunday.

He had his greatest success, as the guitarist and singer for the brothers Walker, which produced the hits of the 1960s as "the sun ain 'T gonna Shine Anymore," "Love her", "Make it Easy on yourself" and "my ship is Comin' '.".

While the Beatles and other British groups were Remaking the face of the rock ' does roll during the British invasion called America in the 1960s, Walker moved to the United States in England instead.

There, he and two other Americans, the bassist Scott Engel and drummer Gary Leeds, called themselves the brothers Walker and each Walker adopted as family name, although they were not related. They had an immediate success with their first British record, 1964 "Love Her", and a string of hits quickly followed.

Walker, who was born John Maus, began using the name of Walker professionally when he was 17, adopting, according to some sources, so he could get a fake I.D. that allowed him to play in nightclubs that he was too young to enter legally.

He, Engel and drummer Al "Tiny" Schneider, used first the name of Walker Brothers when they worked as the house band in discotheque Hollywood Gazzari, shortly before he and Engel moved to Britain and joined Leeds.

In the Walker brothers, he went on tour in the world and sold more than 23 million records, according to its Internet site.

The Group also appears on numerous British television programs in the 1960s, including the popular music of the programs "Ready, Steady, Go,"Top of the Pops"and the"Billy Cotton band Show"." He also appeared in the film "Beach Ball", the series of German music "Beat Club" and other shows.

Walker, who took the guitar at the age of 14, began playing professionally in the end of the 1950s. By the beginning of the 1960s, he was regularly in the popular Hollywood clubs like the box of Pandora's Sunset Strip and on the College circuit.

Over the years, he has worked with such musicians as Ritchie Valens and Glen Campbell, with producer Phil Spector and songwriters Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, who wrote for the Monkees and other groups.

Although he returned to the United States in the 1980s, Klemmer said Sunday that Walker continues to tour in England each year in a "Money of the 1960s" show until his State of health declined last year. He has been diagnosed cancer in December.

"It had set up a group based in LA and had planned to do more here", she says.

Walker is survived by his wife, Cynthia; a sister, Judy Hoyt; children Jamie Maus Anderson, Nickoletta Drew Maus, Adam Sarrazin and Heather Stewart, and several grandchildren.