1964: LIVERPOOL FANS bring POP to the KOP | Panorama | Classic BBC Sport | BBC Archive

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"It used to be thought that Welsh international rugby crowds were the most musical and passionate in the world, but I've never seen anything like this Liverpool crowd." - John Morgan.

Panorama's John Morgan reports from Anfield, where fans of Liverpool Football Club have taken to belting out not just traditional football songs, but the latest pop hits from Merseyside. On this occasion - during a 5-0 thrashing of Arsenal that won Liverpool the league championship - the Kopites deliver stirring renditions of The Beatle's hit She Loves You, and Cilla Black's version of Anyone Who Had a Heart.

What is it about Liverpool that stirs such football fervour?

Clip taken from Panorama, originally broadcast on BBC Television, 20 April, 1964.





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All Comments (21)
  • @Mick_Ts_Chick
    Love the kid who wanted to play just for the honor! 👍😊
  • @GhastlyCretin
    I wonder if they were singing 'I Am The Walrus" three years later lol
  • @standenberg
    As a massive Beatles fan (with no links to Merseyside or it’s football teams) I must’ve seen this clips many times since the 1980’s….and it never loses it appeal, & makes me nostalgic for an era that existed 10 years before my birth 😁
  • @johnrockyryan
    Liverpool has always been and will always be a special club, im an Arsenal fan but i respect tf out of yall
  • @Petersworld77
    Seen this footage any number of times, a time when my dad & uncles went regularly, they’re probably in there somewhere.
  • That was brillant! Being a red since 1971 at 9y. I would have loved to have seen this team however have been lucky over the years to the great players & teams. My favourite was 1974 - 1977 in my youth.
  • @2511dhall
    Broadcast before the launch of BBC2.
  • @Turtlefast235
    Pretty girls at 6:12, brunette on the left with the dreamy blue eyes❤, and I just realized, if they were around 20 in '64, they are 80 y.o grannies now!! ❤❤YNWA
  • @jasonayres
    When did "You'll Never Walk Alone" become a regular chorus for Liverpool?
  • @colincarroll5953
    Magical era of football and life itself when Britain was great -times that are sadly missed before all the corporate bollocks came in etc.