The Kop used to sing Beatles songs back in the 60s, I think there is some footage on YouTube. Stadiums would be pretty dull if they didn't! [111] The song is now an established and official part of the club's brand and culture: 'Blue Moon' is also the name of the club's leading fansite, images of a blue moon (a moon that's blue in colour, not the astronomical phenomenon) appear on licensed and fan-made clothing and merchandise, and the team's mascots are a pair of blue aliens from the moon named 'Moonchester' and 'Moonbeam'. The anthem theme was first popularized as a chant by A.S. Roma's curva sud after a 3-1 match win against Juventus on 30 January 1977. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. [79] Other folk songs to have their lyrics altered include "The John B. Sails" to "We Won it 5 Times" by Liverpool fans, "She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain" to "We'll Be Coming Down the Road" by the Scotland national team and Liverpool fans, "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean", "The Wild Rover" and "Camptown Races", which is used for "Two World Wars, One World Cup", whilst Birmingham City fans sing "Keep Right on to the End of the Road". According to the Daily Telegraph, its something nostalgic: In My Life. 'Hey Jude' was also released that year and it soon became associated with City's most successful era at the time and it has stuck around since. As long as you dont support Arsenal, it was hard not to crack a smile at the emotional scenes on the opening night of the Premier League season. [116] Tottenham fans sang the song as "We are Tottenham, from the Lane",[117] and variations of the same chant are sung by fans of other clubs. Nearly . Theres no chorus or rather, the chorus opens each verse. It spent nine weeks at No 1 in the US, the Beatles personal best. Theyre just not the most creative, but its actually understandable. At this stage, Hey Jude was still a piano ballad. Take a sad song, make it better. [citation needed], Before every match, Nottingham Forest fans sing "Mull of Kintyre", replacing "Mull of Kintyre" with "City Ground", and "Mist rolling in from the sea" with "Mist rolling in from the Trent". The single was the Beatles' first release on their Apple record label and one of the "First Four" singles by Apple's roster of artists, marking the label's public launch. But why does a club in west London have such a deep affinity with a song by a band from Liverpool? The Stars and Stripes Forever is often sung with the words "Here we go, here we go, here we go!". This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. The Brentford fans But I dont know why we resonate with it so much.. Coincidentally, 1968 was the year that the Beatles released Hey Jude, which was to become arguably the greatest crowd-pleasing tune in their broad repertoire. [140], "Contigo Per" is a famous song that is often sung by Peruvian football fans during their National Team's matches, even in the Russia 2018 World Cup match vs France. Football chants may be considered one of the last remaining sources of an oral folk song tradition. When you hear Brentford fans singing Hey Jude, it gives you goosebumps, Luke says. "[141], Eduardo Herrera suggests that soccer chanting in Argentina allows participants to create value around and give meaning to the idea of aguante, which is central in the construction of an ideal masculinity. Aguante translates to endurance or stamina in English. [14] Fans of the early period also had a limited repertoire of chants, which become more varied as singing was encouraged by the use of brass bands before games and the community singing movement that arose in the 1920s (the tradition of singing "Abide with Me" at FA Cup finals started in this period). A Des Moines concert by the a cappella group Pentatonix turned into a four-part harmony audience singalong of The Beatles' iconic "Hey Jude." The group taught segments of the crowd the bass . During the 1970s, there was a group of us who would socialise and go to home and away games. "two-nil") or aiming to disrupt, or are expressions of boredom. The fact that McCartney was at the wheel, not doodling on the piano or the guitar, when he wrote the song forced him to keep it simple. Singing English soccer fans is something of a fetish for the sports world. Quite simply, the most incredible afternoon of football experienced as a Brentford fan. 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The song was released in 1972 when the club reached the 1972 League Cup Final. Football chants are not exclusive to one club and a number have staked claims for the Beatles song, Hey Jude. Because when the 'na na na' hits, you best believe everyone in the vicinity will be singing along. Hey Jude has formed part of pre and post-match signing sessions at Brentford for longer than many care to remember, with the club getting their first feel for the song back in the 1970s. The independent blog of New York University. [113], "Go West" by the Village People has been co-opted by fans of Arsenal F.C., using the words "1-0 to the Arsenal" as a reference to the club's defensive style of football under former manager George Graham. They may also be popular for only a relatively short time, with new chants being constantly created and discarded. They are typically performed repetitively, sometimes accompanied by handclapping, but occasionally they may be more elaborate involving musical instruments, props or choreographed routines. It is, however, the Etihad that is the spiritual home of the song in a sporting sense. [8], The oldest football song in the world that is still in use today may be "On the Ball, City", a song believed to have been composed in the 1890s by Albert T Smith, who became a director of Norwich City in 1905. Wrexham fans sing it as "Wrexham is the name". [95] A number of songs became popular in the 2010s, an example being "Freed from Desire", which is used to celebrate particular players it was first popularised as "Will Grigg's on Fire", then used for others such as "Vardy's on Fire" and "Grizi's on Fire". One day, all this will be a biopic. Birmingham City adopted "Keep Right on to the End of the Road" by Sir Harry Lauder after the team sang it on the coach before the 1956 FA Cup Final Versus Manchester City , it was heard by the fans outside Wembley Stadium . He also struggles to pin down why the club has embraced the song. , Swanson is unstoppable! Hand-clapping chants were popular in South American countries such as Brazil before it spread to other countries. The tune to the Shaker song "Simple Gifts" has spawned many terrace chants including "Carefree", a chant associated with Chelsea. Dont be deceived by the fancy British accents, this is the European equivalent of the American Lets go (blank).. [35][36] Many countries also have football chants dating from the early part of the 20th century,[37][38] and football chants created in different countries may be specific to the local culture. Seven facts about Ireland's iconic unofficial anthem", "How a Cuban song became a football favourite", "Liverpool team up with Johnny Cash | News", "Irish fans no longer dreaming of a team of Gary Breens", "Kanu, el marcapasos de la 'Premier' | Edicin impresa | EL PAS", "Dale Cavese: the football chant that took over the internet and the world", "Giggs emphasises gap | Match Reports | guardian.co.uk Football", "Top 5 Criminal Footballers Putting the Laughter in Manslaughter We Heart Football", "How The Song "Seven Nation Army" Conquered The Sports World", "Vardy's on fire! These chants may simply consist of the name of the team and/or words of encouragement. In this past season it would be City who would take the upper hand as they were the only team to beat Jurgen Klopp's side all season, a victory which meant City clinched the Premier League title ahead of them by a single point. [63][64][65][66], "You're Gonna Get Your Fucking Head Kicked In", sometimes pluralised to "You're Gonna Get Your Fucking Heads Kicked In", is a football chant originating in England. It has been part of the fabric in west London ever since, with former stadium announcer Peter Gilham the man that unwittingly started a long-running trend. [87] "All You Need Is Love", "Hey Jude" and "Yellow Submarine" by The Beatles are often used. Popular standards such as "Winter Wonderland", Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer", and the 1958 Eurovision entry "Volare" are also widely adapted to suit players and managers. During the 1970s, there was a group of us who would socialise and go to home and away games. [103] Chelsea fans then adapted the chant to match their own colours when Torres was transferred to the London club in 2011, with "He's now a Blue, he was a Red." "Sailing" (originally by the Sutherland Brothers, but most commonly associated with Rod Stewart) is adapted by a number of clubs. [6], Football chants in the early years were club-specific and they were generally friendly or jocular in tone. After writing for publications including 90min, Jay worked at Sky Sports News before joining The Athletic in the summer of 2021 to cover Brentford. This is a reference to "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", which commences in the background. [citation needed], Dundee United fans have been known to sing Daniel Boone's single "Beautiful Sunday". The club has in the past also played other songs by the pair at its home ground Easter Road, such as "I'm on My Way", though none have the same association with the team that "Sunshine on Leith" does. [109], "Marching on Together" is played and sung at Elland Road by supporters of Leeds United, and is one of the few club songs specifically written for the football club in question, being an original composition by Les Reed and Barry Mason. Its 50 years since Paul McCartney came up with Hey Jude while driving from London to Surrey and made a song thats sung everywhere from football terraces to Oxford colleges. Mildly witty? It has been the Blues Anthem ever since. It was an innocent start it wasnt launched to become a Brentford anthem!. Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud said it gives him goosebumps when he hears Gooners use his name in the song, but after hearing a few different versions, talkSPORT is asking whose is the best. Thats the best line in it., This exchange, recounted by McCartney in 1994, had two consequences, beyond preserving the line. They may also be comments about the officials such as the referees (e.g. He had been dumped by his fiancee, Jane Asher, after being caught in bed with Francie Schwartz, was secretly dating Maggie McGivern and had just fallen for his future wife, Linda Eastman. [17] Threats of violence may also be made to their rivals in chants; although such threats were rarely carried out, fights did occur which, together with increasing level of hooliganism in that period, gave these threats a real edge. It was an innocent start it wasnt launched to become a Brentford anthem!. Brentford played Oldham Athletic in the third round of the Carabao Cup on Tuesday and we spoke to supporters to try to discover the songs origins as a terrace anthem for the club. He told The Athletic when asked how a Beatles track became engrained in Bees folklore: Hey Jude came out in 1968. And that song was the best song of that year according to many. The most common base is the Beach Boys Sloop John B. Other brilliant substitutions include changing the chorus of Hey Jude to "nananananana Giroud/Liverpool/City" and swapping "he played knick-knack on my knee" to "United are the team for me" in the nursery rhyme This Old Man. Every fan knows they have a part to play this season. Peter Gilham is Brentfords stadium announcer. In a photo from this period, McCartney is seen holding Julian, looking paternal, while Lennon remains in the background, looking like a rock star. Nahh-na-na, nahhh One marker of a great song is that it makes the listener feel it is addressed to them. Hey Jude began as Hey Jules, an arm round the shoulder of a five-year-old, so the compassion was there all along. As the song reaches its crescendo from a low-key beginning, it oozes euphoria and is, therefore, a perfect footballing chant, having also been adopted by Arsenal fans to celebrate the achievements of Olivier Giroud. ",[71] "We support our local team! Engagement with the team These chants come in various forms. Hey Jude was always a Brentford anthem from back in the 70s . . Not so difficult for a female. The Beatles producer, George Martin, protested that seven minutes was too long and radio DJs would not play the record. [3] Songs with sectarian overtones, however, had been sung at matches between Rangers and Celtic in the 1920s, which became more overtly confrontational in later decades, raising the possibility that sectarianism may have been the origin of oppositional chanting and singing at football matches. English football supporters are definitely worthy of praise. Borussia Dortmund fans sing 'Hey Jude' #shorts #judebellingham Even fans of teams whose name actually is the Saints think this particular tradition is beyond played out. Some of that praise is unwarranted. Hey Jude = Brentford = Ingerland 20 1 Justin_Ganz 1 yr. ago That's cool, I always wondering how each team gets a song. According to Rolling Stone and USA Today, its something epic: A Day in the Life, which often does well in polls, perhaps because its written by both Lennon and McCartney. The tune and the germ of the lyrics came to McCartney in June 1968, when he was driving from London to Weybridge in Surrey to see Cynthia and Julian Lennon after John had left them for Yoko Ono. The entry-level songs are one of two variations of the club name. Hibernian were the first team to use the song with the release of a record by Hector Nicol in the 1950s ("Glory Glory to the Hibees").[72]. Asked why he had changed Jules to Jude, he came out with the songwriters all-purpose answer: because it sounded better. An example of the latter's use was "He's got a pineapple on his head" aimed at Jason Lee due to his distinctive hairstyle. - Jose has become a laughing stock, Arsenal's plans to avoid bottling the title, Exclusive: Kovacic on Modric, CR7 and THAT Liverpool goal. [6] It was also recorded in the 1890s that Sheffield United fans had adopted a music hall song, the "Rowdy Dowdy Boys", while Southampton fans sang a "Yi! [25] Concerns over the abusive nature of some of these chants later led to measures in various countries to control them, for example, the British government made racist and indecent chants an offence in the UK in 1991. The intensity in the rivalry between the two clubs has been heating up over the past two seasons with both sides fighting tooth and nail for the Premier League title more recently. It is also used as a case study in psychology and sociology. Into the gap after Nahh, na, na, nahh-na-na, nahhh, you can slot almost any pair of syllables Giroud, City, Geordie. Amongst others, it has spawned the song "You're not singing anymore! And it has been sung for the rain at Edgbaston last year, when a shower sent England and Australia off the field. At Manchester City, fans sang it after the team won their first Premier League. For example, Chile national football team fans will do a routine whereby one group of fans will chant "Chi-Chi-Chi", and another group will respond "Le-Le-Le". War cries were known to have been used by football fans from the 1880s onwards, with the earliest recorded in Scotland after the Scottish Cup final of 1887. Listen to 112 Brentford FC football songs and Brentford soccer chants from Griffin Park. 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