American Songwriter

Why Liverpool Football Fans Sing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ by Gerry and the Pacemakers

The song was written by Oscar Hammerstein II and composed by Richard Rodgers for their 1945 musical, Carousel. But how did a show tune from an American musical make its way across the Atlantic to ...
PBS

Andrea Bocelli Performs “You’ll Never Walk Alone”

♪ When you walk through a storm ♪ Hold your head up high ♪ And don't be afraid of the dark ♪ At the end of the storm is a golden sky ♪ ♪ And the sweet silver song of a lark Walk on through the wind ♪ ...
Los Angeles Times

Gerry Marsden, whose hit song became a soccer anthem, dies at 78

LONDON — Gerry Marsden, lead singer of the 1960s British group Gerry and the Pacemakers that had such hits as “Ferry Cross the Mersey” and the song that became the anthem of Liverpool Football Club, ...