-When you walk through a storm hold your head up high.
-Walk on.
Walk on with hope in your hearts.
-And you'll never walk alone.
-You'll never--
-Walk alone.
-It's the most famous football song in the world.
[MUSIC-GERRY MARSDEN, "YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE"]
GERRY MARSDEN: I was livin' in New York doing the Ed Sullivan
Show and the Liverpool team were
playing around the Americas.
So I said to Ed, there's a soccer team in here from
England called Liverpool.
Get them on stage, and we'll sing "Walk Alone" with me.
He said, OK.
So we got the whole team on the stage, and we sang "Walk
Alone" on the Ed Sullivan Show.
Coming off, Bill Shankly said to me, "Teddy, my son.
I've given you a team, but you've given us a song."
[MUSIC-GERRY MARSDEN, "YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE"]
GERRY MARSDEN: This way in.
We'll go through here.
That's the Shankly Memorial.
How are you?
My name is Gerry Marsden from Gerry and the Pacemakers, and
you have the pleasure of being in Liverpool Football Club's
magnificent ground called Anfield.
Not many people get in here.
In fact, through them doors there, my team
walk in like gods.
Look at these names on the wall.
Look.
Look at them.
They're wonderful.
God himself, Mr. Bill Shankly, what a man.
He used to come to my house for dinner.
This is the European Kop.
Everybody tries to win it.
We won it so many times, we give them back.
Look at this sign.
This is Anfield.
Those other teams would come and see it and go, uh-oh.
The holy of holies.
Look at this ground.
I mean, when you look at it, you get frightened.
Nevermind playing on it.
Can you imagine coming here to play Liverpool on that field?
Your heart does that.
JAMES MCKENNA: Football's much more than entertainment.
It's part of who you are.
My first picture in my dad's arms when I was born was with
a Liverpool scarf on.
It's stuff that instills in you.
It's part of you, and it always has been.
You don't ask people the question, what do you do?
You ask them, who do you support?
Liverpool at the time, they used to play the Top 10, and
"You'll Never Walk Alone" was number one, and they used to
just sing along.
Probably also just liking the song.
GERRY MARSDEN: Once I came to the game one day, and they all
sang at the Kop, and I thought the Kop is singing our song.
Wow.
I was over the moon.
Then when it went out of the Top 10, and that weekend, the
Kop shouted, where's our song?
Where's our song?
So we had to put it back on.
And from that day to this, every home match, we play
"You'll Never Walk Alone."
You all know the words.
You can all help just a bit, if you don't mind.
JAMES MCKENNA: But it's when you think of what's gone on at
Liverpool, our history, our dark times, our joyous times,
that the words seemed to fit.
It was like it was meant to be.
It was like that song was meant to fit the Liverpool
Football Club.
[MUSIC-GERRY MARSDEN, "YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE"]
GERRY MARSDEN: When you walk through a storm, hold your
head up high.
Don't be afraid of the dark.
And that's all great.
That's what made this song.
And also what made this song is the build up-- the way it
goes up to a great sound, and that's what gets everybody
going as it builds and builds and builds.
And the end is just wonderful.
And that's why I think the Kop picked it all up.
Easy to sing.
At the end, give it a bit of rally.
And thank God it worked.
[MUSIC-GERRY MARSDEN, "YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE"]
JAMES MCKENNA: You can go abroad now and probably within
a few minutes, you'll meet someone who likes Liverpool,
has a Liverpool [INAUDIBLE], or is from Liverpool, and it
shows you won't be alone.
You will always meet someone.
There will always be them stories in our history to live
on as well.
[MUSIC-GERRY MARSDEN, "YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE"]
GERRY MARSDEN: When they said we're going to put Walk Alone
on top of the Shankly gates, I said, what?
It was such a wonderful thing not only for me, but for my
kids and the kid's kids.
I still love looking at it when I come up.
You'll Never Walk Alone.
It is, it's tremendous.
-You'll never walk alone.