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What's up guys! Today, we're going to talk about the song YNWA and its history, composer...

"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 protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, falls on his knife and dies 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 matchday; this tradition began at Liverpool F.C. after the chart success of the 1963 single of the song by the local Liverpool group Gerry and the Pacemakers.

The song has been recorded by many artists, with notable hit versions made by Roy Hamilton, Frank Sinatra, Roy Orbison, Billy Eckstine, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Lee Towers, Judy Garland, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Andy Williams, Johnny Maestro and The Brooklyn Bridge, Olivia Newton-John and Doris Day. Rock group Pink Floyd took a recording by the Liverpool Kop fans, and "interpolated" it into their own song, "Fearless", on their 1971 album.

From 1964 through 2010, Jerry Lewis finished  the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day MDA Telethon,The MDA Labor Day Telethon was an annual telethon held on  Labor Day in the United States to raise money for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA), by singing the song. After the end of a concert of  the rock band Queen, the audience spontaneously sang this song, and this helped to inspire the creation of their songs "We Are the Champions" and "We Will Rock You".

American singer Barbra Streisand performed this song in a surprise appearance at the close of the 2001 Emmy Awards, in honor of the victims of the 11 September 2001 attacks.^[7]To mark the first anniversary of the attacks, Renée Fleming sang the song at the Concert for America. Fleming sang the song again at the Inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009.

Despite this, as I said before it has also become a football anthem, especially in Liverpool.In the UK, the song's most successful cover was released in 1963 by the Liverpudlian Merseybeat group Gerry and the Pacemakers, peaking at number one on the UK singles chart for four consecutive weeks. Sung by Liverpool fans in 1963, the song quickly became the anthem of Liverpool F.C. and is sung by its supporters moments before the start of each home game with the Gerry and the Pacemakers version played over the public.  

Once former player Tommy Smith said: lead vocalist Gerry Marsden(  Gerry and the Pacemakers)presented Liverpool manager Bill Shankly a recording of his  single during a pre-season trip in the summer of 1963.Tommy said this:  "Shanks was in awe of what he heard. ... Football writers from the local newspapers were travelling with us and,they  filed copy back to their editors to the effect that we had adopted Gerry Marsden's single as the club song." The squad was invited to perform the track with the band on The Ed Sullivan Show.  Marsden stated this, "Bill came up to me. He said, 'Gerry my son, I have given you a football team and you have given us a song'." shortly before the kickoff Liverpool fans on the Kop tended to  sing along, but unlike with other hit singles, once "You'll Never Walk Alone" dropped out of the top ten, instead of forgetting the song, supporters continued to sing it.

It is also sung by other teams as: Celtic, Twente, Borussia Dortmund, Mainz... abd even in other sports as ice hockey.

Gerry and the Pacemakers were an English beat group prominent in the 1960s Merseybeat scene. In common with the Beatles, they came from Liverpool, were managed by Brian Epstein, and were recorded by George Martin.

They are most remembered for being the first act to reach number one in the UK Singles Chart with their first three single releases: "How Do You Do It?", "I Like It" and "You'll Never Walk Alone". This record was not equalled for 20 years, until the mid-1980s success of fellow Liverpool band Frankie Goes to Hollywood. Another of their most famous songs, "Ferry Cross the Mersey", refers to the River Mersey that flows past Liverpool.

The members of the band were: Gerry Marsden, Freddie Marsden, Arthur Mack, Les Chadwick, Les Maguire; Jose McLaughlin, Billy Kinsley, Pete Clarke 

Now, we're going to try to analyse the song:

When you walk through a storm, hold your head up high: with this they want to say that in bad times you have to be strong
And don’t be afraid of the dark: with this that you don’t have to be scared of bad times neither difficult times
At the end of the storm, there’s a golden sky
And the sweet, silver song of a lark: and with this that if you fight at the end there will be a good end and all will finish well

Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Though your dreams be tossed and blown: with this they want to say that you have to do what you can, all what is in your hands, to fight againts all the difficulties to make your dreams true

Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone
You’ll never walk alone: 

Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you’ll never walk alone
You’ll never walk alone:and to finish with this they want to say that you have to be possitive and trust in what you think, to be yourself and you are always going to be with people.
This has been out radio programme I really hope you have liked it because this sing means a lot for me and for a lot of redmen. Have a good afternoon!

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