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

"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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[@johnrockyryan]

Liverpool has always been and will always be a special club, im an Arsenal fan but i respect tf out of yall

[@lyndoncmp5751]

I well remember that the Kop stayed behind and applauded Arsenal when Arsenal won the title off Liverpool in the last minute at Anfield in 1989. They were gutted but had the grace to acknowledge Arsenal as champions. Shame Arsenal just missed out to 115 Charges FC this season. All the best to you.

[@KevinMannix-sf5zk]

There are two clubs in England, Liverpool represents the North and Arsenal the South Its a Druidic thing the crowds are the same type of people We both know how to sing them home, nice to hear your voices again this year risen in pride , don't ever let it drop The money is always temporary

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

Love the kid who wanted to play just for the honor! 👍😊

[@markbrown4039]

Liverpool!!! And Happy 70th, Panorama!

[@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 😁

[@AANDYist]

so where did u see the clips loads times in the 80s? i call bs on this one. was only 4 channels and deff wasnt on them.maybe once max

[@standenberg]

⁠@@AANDYist Perfect example of the sort of banality we need less of. Nothing constructive, nothing insightful, just a vapid insult from someone with silly American phrases, who evidently can’t read properly 🤦🏻You can call bs or call whatever you want. I didn’t say I saw it loads in the 80s, I said I’ve seen it loads SINCE the 80s (which was the first time I did see it)…and whats 4 channels got to do with it? It’s a BBC clip (not ITV), & I can recall seeing it on a BBC video cassette connected to Liverpool FC.

[@AANDYist]

@@standenberg Ok mate was just an opinion, i apologise no hard feelings.

[@GeorgeHarrisonDarkHorse]

@@AANDYistwhere have you been lad? I recall when we had just 3 channels and the first part of this clip got shown back then, especially when particular programmes wanted to highlight The Beatles or our famous Kop at Anfield with its unique atmosphere, something you’ll never see at 3rd Div grounds like Fratton Park 🤣😂

[@AANDYist]

@@GeorgeHarrisonDarkHorse tbh the four times ive been to Anfield u hear more Irish voices then scousers in the pubs. And for the record us fans will never end loads of italians lives and say nothing about it ever. Also when we was in the cup final the commentator called us the loudest fans in the land. Trust me 20,000 local loyal fans rock Fratton Park and we are known for it.Anfield only rocks on euro nights now and pretty quiet most the other games. We deff out sang u the four times as away fans. try not to hate mate lifes too short. Also you would never hear us fans singing about plane crashes in the 60s in Munich..Disgusting fans! oh and for the record Henry called us the best fans and Ronaldhino said we was the best fans hes ever played against in England as the place was rocking from start to finish. Pool fans got this country banned from Europe for 5 years. Are u proud? All Liverpool are known for id robbing , gun crime and singing an awful song and tbh Celtic and Dortmund do it miles better nowadays. only reason we hear scouse this scouse that is because u got a city up the road that is miles better then Pool. Watch the FA Cup semis at Highbury and Villa Park 1992, same amount of fans and we blew ur fans away. But hey lets not let facts get in the way hey. I have been to 3 world cups and trust me Pool fans are the most disliked around the country by all the other clubs supporters.

[@GhastlyCretin]

I wonder if they were singing 'I Am The Walrus" three years later lol

[@randyborstol2491]

There was a policeman with a moustache who was known as 'the walrus'

[@TomTom-gh1nf]

The spion Kop ❤ YNWA 🇵🇸

[@Petersworld77]

Seen this footage any number of times, a time when my dad & uncles went regularly, they’re probably in there somewhere.

[@christopherallt5487]

Greatest club in world football

[@colinthai4490]

Thank you for sharing

[@guilhermecarvalhodarosa]

Amazing!

[@brucefindlay]

Fab...❤

[@natureclips5849]

YMWA as a Leeds fan

[@zaggy3110]

Paul McCartney was Everton fan

[@edmundcleecinematic1961]

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.

[@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

[@2511dhall]

Broadcast before the launch of BBC2.

[@jamesgolightly5320]

That crowd is a liquid

[@jasonayres]

When did "You'll Never Walk Alone" become a regular chorus for Liverpool?

[@jasonayres]

@@simonsimon325 Thanks 🖐

[@norbertholstein2604]

When they played Celtic

[@norbertholstein2604]

Any evidence for your claims? Gerry Marsden was talking to Bill Shankly, my arse! 😂😂😂

[@norbertholstein2604]

I'll tell you what if you can show me footage earlier than 1970, of Liverpool fans singing YNWA, I'll concede you sang it first. Because that's the earliest I have of Celtic fans singing it.

[@randyborstol2491]

@@simonsimon325 Celtic picked it up after playing at Anfield in 1966

[@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.

[@feola1173]

Hello, Can I use your video material for my documentary? Pls

[@David-vd8jy]

Wow rare site before it became full of plastics and tourists those were the days

[@David-vd8jy]

@@simonsimon325 support where your born the rest are just glory hunters not real fans liverpool and Manchester u most plastic clubs in England

[@njd2342]

So what do they sing at Goodison Park?

[@randyborstol2491]

no one there

[@Gillmeister2465]

We are the toffeemen in the 60's and 70's. Now Jonny todd went sailing " the Z car's theme" my Scouse mate Everton fan told me that, so I don't know if it's 100% true

[@njd2342]

@@Gillmeister2465 Yes, the Z cars theme. I guess Everton were the thin blue line supporting law and order in Liverpool.

[@stephenkay3048]

Got on kop early pre match entertainment worth entrance fee ,and a win ,glory days ,ynwa

[@JohnSmith-zl8rz]

that's the real life, no computers.

[@tvmediathebiggestweaponuse1671]

When days were good.

[@IVWOR]

.....👍

[@MrMarkyone]

Stan boardman in there

[@robharding5345]

The Kop end is great, But not a match for the Blackburn End !😎

[@paulmcallister8948]

Lol 🤣

[@robharding5345]

@@paulmcallister8948 🤣

[@danorthsidemang3834]

6:03 Kudos to the BBC for managing to find the two most attractive women in Liverpool

[@danorthsidemang3834]

If you're going to chant something at a sporting event, at least make it sound like you don't weigh 47 pounds and believe in adding as many letters and digits to the human gender line as possible.

[@lyndoncmp5751]

WTF?