Why does Liverpool sing; You'll Never Walk Alone?


You'll Never Walk Alone is perhaps the most famous song in football, and is heard before kick-off at every Liverpool match at Anfield.

It has traveled around the world as the Reds have toured Europe and even further afield as six-time European champions.

But how did it become such a huge part of the club's identity?

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The story of the song and its association with Liverpool the team and the city dates back to the 1960s.

You'll Never Walk Alone was written by Oscar Hammerstein II and composed by Richard Rodgers for their musical Carousel, which was released in the USA in 1945. 

It later spawned a number of cover versions, the most successful of which in the UK was released by Gerry and the Pacemakers in 1963. Formed by and named after lead singer 


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Gerry Marsden, Gerry, and the Pacemakers started out in 1959 and were part of the 1960s Merseybeat scene led by The Beatles.

Their version of You'll Never Walk Alone hit number one in the UK charts and stayed there for four weeks.

Around this time Liverpool was on a pre-season tour of the United States, while the band was also in America featuring on a talk show. Gerry invited the Liverpool team to join them on the show and so they did. The band performed "You'll Never Walk Alone" on stage which left the Liverpool manager Bill Shankly in awe of the song. After the performance, Shankly said to Marsden,

Gerry my son, I have given you a football team and you have given us a song
The reporters traveling with the party subsequently sent the word back home to England that You'll Never Walk Alone was the new club song and things developed from there. 

Shankly picked the song during an appearance on the BBC's Desert Islander Discs radio

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show in 1965 ahead of that year's FA Cup final and the television footage of that match provides the first evidence of it being sung in the stands.

The song quickly became a regular feature in the stands at Anfield and gradually it became the club Anthem for Liverpool which now holds a very special place in the heart of every Liverpool fan across the globe.

1st May 1965 FA Cup Final at Wembley Liverpool 2 v Leeds United 1 aet Liverpool's. Sport. Football. pic: 1st May 1965. FA. Cup Final at Wembley.
Celtic adopted You'll Never Walk Alone soon after Liverpool, with some even debating which club got their first. Most agree that the Scottish team's fans brought it home with them after they played Liverpool at Anfield in the 1966 European semi-finals, and it is now sung before European games at Celtic Park.

Since then, it has become widespread among a number of clubs. Probably the most famous club other than Liverpool and Celtic is Borussia Dortmund, who combined with Liverpool fans for a memorable rendition of the anthem when the two sides met in the Europa League during the 2015-16 season.

It is particularly popular in Germany and the Netherlands, where Feyenoord sing it and has

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gone around the globe to clubs like FC Tokyo in Japan.

When Liverpool played pre-season matches in Australia in 2013, 95,000 fans packed into the Melbourne Cricket Ground and produced an incredible pre-match chorus.

The song developed a new meaning and symbolism after the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 in which 96 fans lost their lives. Twenty-five years after the first coroner's inquest concluded the deaths were accidental, the campaigning efforts of the families of the deceased resulted in a new verdict being delivered stating that their relatives had been unlawfully killed.

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Throughout that process, the lyrics and themes of You'll Never Walk Alone were prominent. 

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Today, the words 'You'll Never Walk Alone' appear on Liverpool's crest based on the design of the Shankly Gates, which were erected outside Anfield in 1982.


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