When you walk through a storm, hold your head up highĪt the end of the storm, there’s a golden sky What are the lyrics to ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’? ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ was sung by a lone choir boy, offering both comfort and hope to a city in mourning. On the day after the tragedy at Hillsborough, 13,000 people gathered at Liverpool’s Roman Catholic Cathedral 5,000 in the church, and a further 8,000 spilling into the streets outside. Throughout the painful process, the lyrics and themes of You’ll Never Walk Alone were prominent. There followed a 25 year legal battle before the courts ruled that the victims were unlawfully killed and that a catalogue of failings by police and the ambulance services contributed to their deaths. The song took on a much deeper and more tragic meaning after the Hillsborough disaster of 1989, when a human crush at the stadium in Sheffield injured hundreds and 96 fans lost their lives. Read more: The best classical football songs > I don’t know in English, but your skin is.”(flutters his fingers up and down his arm to explain). Later, Carlo Ancelotti, then coach of AC Milan was asked which club had the best fans. This small act of defiance in the face of adversity galvanised the Liverpool team, and they managed to pull back and win the match on penalties, crowning them European Cup Champions. Legend has it that the motivating effect of the fans singing You’ll Never Walk Alone gave the players hope when all seemed lost.

In the finals of the 2005 UEFA Champions League Final in Istanbul, Liverpool were losing 3-0 to AC Milan. The message of hope in the song has given the fans of Liverpool hope through some very tough times – both on and off the field. 1 in the charts for about four weeks in 1963, by which time it had become Liverpool FC’s signature tune. This was also the time when ‘Merseybeat’ bands like The Beatles and Gerry And The Pacemakers dominated the charts, so the fans would have heard a lot of their local heroes over the tannoy. How ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ became an LFC anthemĪt that time, Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium was one of the first football grounds to have a PA system, and the Top Ten in the charts would be played over the speakers before the match as a form of early pre-match entertainment. Richard Rodgers, Iva Withers and Stephen Douglass in rehearsal for 'Carousel'.

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