Youll Never Walk Alone
The Huddle is ours, so please, no revisionism on this one Reds! Claire Higgins, Ballymena, Co. When "You'll never walk alone" was played it caught on as an anthem. Cyril Young, Alumim Israel The Anfield officials would play the number one song at that particular time, , over the PA before home games.
The Celtic supporters only sung it intermittenly during the 70's and it wasn't until the friendly with Liverpool directly after Hillsborough in that it was sung on a regular basis. BBC Panorama did a doco on the Kop in the early 60's and more or less attributed the Kop as the modern birthplace of singing and chanting.
Josh, New Zealand The idea that somehow or other Celtic were first to sing "You'll Never Walk Alone" is some kind of urban myth that has taken on a life of its own, thanks to the unthinking and gullible. As others have pointed out, apart from the folk memory of the Kop, the evidence of Liverpool's association with the song was actually recorded by the BBC in the early s.
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Celtic picked up on the song after coming to Anfield in a string of friendlies in the s. I was present at all of them and can confirm that far from singing YNWA at Ron Yeats's testimonial, for instance, the Celtic fans 'entertained' the Scousers with the usual collection of sectarian anthems as well as a hail of missiles.
In the interests of balance I should point out that Rangers's record in this area is no better than Celtic's. It wasn't until the 70s when Celtic and Liverpool had a string of friendly games and the LFC supporters sang our song that the Celtic Supporters picked it up. If my video collection is anything to go by, the song simply was not performed all that often during the s; most of the recordings are dated onwards.
Dunne, Glasgow, UK Several replies have stated that the song was not sang too often in the 70's by Celtic supporters.
I went to just about every home game in to and I can assure you it was sung when the players were entering the pitch to start the game Cliff Hobson, Wyoming Australia I am not overly concerned about who sang 'You'll Never Walk Alone' first, all I will say is most of the quotes I have read here are taken from an article published a wee while back where it was claimed that Celtic did not start singing that anthem till the 70's!
In the film, it is first sung by Claramae Turner as Nettie. The weeping Julie Jordan Shirley Jones tries to sing it but cannot; it is later reprised by Julie and those attending the graduation.
The famous YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE gate - Picture of Anfield Stadium, Liverpool
Progressive rock group Pink Floyd took a recording by the Liverpool Kop choir, and "interpolated" it into their own song, " Fearless ", on their album Meddle. In at the Nelson Mandela: Mandela turned to Adelaide Tambo who accompanied him onto the stage and asked what the song was.
She replied, "A football song". In the second season of American Horror Story , this song was recited as a poem.
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It has been the song of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps song since , where they first performed it as a part of their first field show in Challenged by the Rosemont Cavaliers singing " Over the Rainbow " in , the corps responded with "You'll Never Walk Alone", and it has been the official corps song ever since.
I've been to thirty wakes in two years, three this week, one being my cousin, Al's lost a brother in law. It's hit home close to us. I was leaving one of the wakes and this song came on and as I was listening to the lyrics it summed up exactly how I was feeling. Sad, but knowing there is hope. You never have to be alone.
I hope you like our version". In the UK, the song's most successful cover was released in by the Liverpudlian Merseybeat group Gerry and the Pacemakers , peaking at number one on the UK singles chart for four consecutive weeks. Sung by Liverpool fans in , the song quickly became the anthem of Liverpool F. According to former player Tommy Smith , lead vocalist Gerry Marsden presented Liverpool manager Bill Shankly with a recording of his forthcoming cover single during a pre-season coach trip in the summer of Football writers from the local newspapers were travelling with our party and, thirsty for a story of any kind between games, filed copy back to their editors to the effect that we had adopted Gerry Marsden's forthcoming single as the club song.
He said, 'Gerry my son, I have given you a football team and you have given us a song'.
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Liverpool fans on the Kop would sing along, but unlike with other hit singles, once "You'll Never Walk Alone" dropped out of the top ten, instead of disregarding the song, supporters continued to sing it. Aretha Franklin 's recording of the song was played by John Peel in his first show following the disaster, when he became too upset to carry on broadcasting for a period.
Today, Twente fans sing the song before every home game. Feyenoord and SC Cambuur have adopted the song as well. Germany's Borussia Dortmund , [17] 1. Tokyo , [23] Spain's CD Lugo. A special recording of the song was made in solidarity with Bradford City following the Valley Parade fire in , when 56 spectators died and many more were seriously injured. Some years later, after witnessing a rendition of "You'll Never Walk Alone" at Anfield in , the President of the Spanish Olympic Committee , Alejandro Blanco, said he felt inspired to seek lyrics to his country's wordless national anthem, the Marcha Real , ahead of Madrid's bid to host the Olympic Games.
During the Hong Kong protests , legislator Tam Yiu Chung quoted the song during a Legislative Council of Hong Kong meeting, to salute the Hong Kong Police, [28] who had received widespread criticism for using excessive force against pro-democracy protesters. More than 2, Liverpool Football Club fans in Hong Kong condemned his inappropriate use of the song, comparing his support of the police action to the police actions in the Hillsborough disaster , where South Yorkshire Police were found to have distorted facts relating to the unlawful killing by negligence of 96 Liverpool supporters.
On 13 March , after Borussia Dortmund 's win against 1. FSV Mainz 05 in the German Bundesliga , supporters of both teams performed the song to commemorate a Dortmund fan who died from a cardiac arrest in the stands during the game.
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