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Originally Posted by snbd
er, I am honestly trying to understand why this song is so strongly connected. Im not trying to start a war of words. Hope things dun get out of hand.
Peace.
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Bro, just ignore the fool, he IS in here for a war of words (which no one can be bothered with).
Anyway, for a start (Wiki not always right so Pool fansites might be better):
In England, the song's most successful performance was recorded in 1963 by the Liverpudlian Merseybeat group Gerry & The Pacemakers (peaking at number one in the singles chart for four consecutive weeks). It quickly became the anthem of Liverpool Football Club and is invariably sung by its supporters moments before the start of each home game.[2][3] The words "You'll Never Walk Alone" also feature in the club crest and on the Shankly Gate entrance to the stadium.
According to former player Tommy Smith, Gerry Marsden presented Liverpool manager Bill Shankly with a recording of his upcoming cover single during a pre-season coach trip in the summer of 1963. "Shanks was in awe of what he [had] heard. [...] 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."[4]
Marsden himself told BBC Radio how, in the 1960s, the deejay at Anfield would play the top-ten commercial records in ascending order, with the number one single transmitted last, shortly before kickoff. Supporters standing on the Spion Kop terrace would sing along, but once "You'll Never Walk Alone" dropped out of the top-ten, says Marsden, they continued to sing it.[5][6] The song was later adopted by the Scottish teams Hibernian and Celtic,[3] Dutch teams Feyenoord and FC Twente, the Belgium team Club Brugge,[7] and Japan's F.C. Tokyo.[8]
You'll Never Walk Alone (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia