From Penny Lane to Anfield, a walk through the most football and musical Liverpool

Much has been said about The Beatles’ football connection is a sport they never really cared about. But as the children of the city they live in, they experienced the football atmosphere of this industrial metropolis with three clubs. Paul McCartney has always been seen as a ‘candy’ by Everton fans after he was spotted in the 1968 FA Cup final between Goodison Park and West Brom. His father was born in Everton and his family was from there, so it’s no wonder Paul sympathizes with the blue shores of the Mersey.

John’s father was a Liverpool fan but was never interested in football. His solo album ‘Wall and Bridges’ despite scoring a goal from the 1952 Cup final between Arsenal and Newcastle. George Harrison was smarter and chose not to take notes from the start: “There are three teams in Liverpool and I am from the other.”. What did the fans of Liverpool’s ‘poor’ team Tranmere Rovers celebrate? And Ringo was never associated with any of them.

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But, like the good ‘scousers’, which is the name of the city’s villain, they lived together with football. For example, in the ‘Eleanor Rigby’ video, two teams in red and blue shirts appear with the faces of the musicians in the Merseyside derby. Another nod, ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’.

John and Paul in 1957 in the suburb of Woolton St. Peter’s Church, Bill Shankly had not yet set foot in town. The legendary coach arrived at Anfield in December 1959 and transformed the warehouse into the historic ‘Boot Room’, where Liverpool joined the best players ever Joe Fagan and Bob Paisley. The ’60s were born and the city was divided by Stanley Park. In the south, Shankly began writing Liverpool’s golden pages. In the North, Harry Catterick ignited the illusion of Everton fans.. And in the heat of both, Merseysound was born. In 1961, the Beatles made their debut at the legendary club ‘The Cavern’ on Matthew Street, where they arrived after training in Hamburg. In 1962, Liverpool was promoted to the Premier League, weeks after the Beatles released their first single, “Love Me Do”.

In March 1963, the turning point came for the Fab Four, when they released ‘Please Please Me’, an album that reached the top of the British charts. Beginning with their third single, “From Me to You”, they peaked at number seventeen over the next six years. Around that time, a friend of the band, musician Gerry Marsden, presented Bill Shankly with a recording of the song. The leader of ‘Gerry and the Pacemakers’, with whom the Beatles played together in their early days on ‘The Cavern’ and eventually mingled in a band they called ‘The Beatmakers’, gave him the first demo of “You’ll Never Walk Alone”. The song became a regular at Anfield and became an anthem after the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989. Where 97 fans were crushed to death by the crowd. In 1992, Liverpool decided to add the title to the club’s shield as a motto, and they “never walk alone” ever since.

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Whether they went to the field or not, the Beatles were always there. Both at Anfield and ‘evertonian’ Goodison Park, Where The most listened song in England’s football stadiums was ‘She Loves You’. The song ‘In Red’ fans celebrate their Premier title after they beat Arsenal at Anfield (5-0) in April 1964. Buses from the roundabout that afternoon penny strip they came packaged. Sefton Park’s historic junction with Smithdown Road, Paul gave this name to a legendary Beatles song as it was the place where John, George and Ringo met. because it was the transfer point for buses connecting the center and the suburbs. While Paul and John lived in the neighborhood, George came on the 86 line and Ringo on the ‘circle’. From there today, head straight to the 14th quay, where ‘Tres Marías’ emerges majestically on the banks of the Mersey, which are now Liverpool’s most emblematic buildings, the Liver Building, Cunard Building and Port of Liverpool Building.

By the time the Beatles sent Shankly that telegram wishing him luck in ’65, he had already won a Grammy, had sold over a million copies of “She Loves You,” and was crowned Queen of Scots II. . They gave their last concert at ‘The Cavern’ on December 5 that year and never again came together to play in their city. Fifty years after this farewell, in 2015, a bronze statue of four people cruising not far from the ‘Yellow Submarine’ dock on the river was unveiled. By then Shankly had arrived in front of The Kop stands and the Shankly Hotel had just opened in the centre.

On this cold Tuesday in February, we’ll celebrate a tasting of ‘scouse’, a seafood stew that gives its name to ‘liverpulian’ and the local dialect, at the magnificent Shankly Hotel in Liverpool. pipe music. Then to cover a little more than two miles separating Victoria Street from Anfield. A march full of football and music like the whole city.