"You'll Never Walk Alone".
Sung by: Joyce DiDonato.
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Liverpool Football Club fans singing "You'll Never Walk Alone".
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"You'll Never Walk Alone".
Sung by: Gerry And The Pacemakers.
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The Hillsborough Memorial.
Date: 10 April 2004.
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"You'll Never Walk Alone" is a Show Tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein Musical "Carousel". In the Second Act of the Musical, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the female protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, commits suicide after a failed robbery attempt.
It is reprised in the final scene to encourage a Graduation Class of which Louise (Billy and Julie's daughter) is a member. The now invisible Billy, who has been granted the chance to return to Earth for one day in order to redeem himself, watches the ceremony and is able to silently motivate the unhappy Louise to join in the song.
The song is also sung at Association Football Clubs around the World, where it is performed by a massed chorus of supporters on Match Day; this Tradition began at Liverpool F.C. in the Early-1960s.
The Hillsborough Disaster was a human crush at Hillsborough football stadium in Sheffield, England, on 15 April 1989, during the 1988–89 FA Cup Semi-Final game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
The resulting ninety-six fatalities and 766 injuries makes this the worst disaster in British sporting history. The crush occurred in the two Standing-Only Central Pens in the Leppings Lane Stand, allocated to Liverpool supporters.
Shortly before kick-off, in an attempt to ease overcrowding outside the entrance turnstiles, the Police Match Commander, Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield, ordered Exit Gate C to be opened, leading to an influx of even more supporters to the already overcrowded Central Pens.
