Leeds United (song)

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Leeds United
Leeds United Football Team
publication April 1972
Genre (s) pop
Author (s) Les Reed ,
Geoff Stephens
Publisher (s) Hush-a-bye Music SA

Leeds United is a song recorded by the Leeds United Football Team , the 1971-72 season team of Leeds United AFC football club . The song, arranged and produced by Les Reed , was released as the A-side of a single on Reed's own label, Chapter 1 Records . Leeds United reached number ten on the British charts in 1972 , the B-side Leeds, Leeds, Leeds also made it into the charts in 1992 and 2010.

history

prehistory

Leeds United Coat of Arms

From 1961 to 1974 Don Revie was the manager and coach of the Leeds United AFC; these years were the most successful for the football club from the industrial city in the north of England. In 1968 the club won its first major titles, the League Cup and the Messestädte Cup , and in 1969 the team became English champions for the first time . In the 1971/72 season, Leeds was at the end of the season behind Derby County for the fifth time in the Revie era. In the semi-finals of the FA Cup 1971/72 United defeated the team from Birmingham City 3-0 on April 15, 1972 and reached the final of the cup for the third time .

admission

For the tune of Leeds United , producer Les Reed covered a song that he himself wrote with Geoff Stephens. It was published as Sally Sunshine by Miki Antony and narrowly missed the UK Top 50 in 1971. In Germany it became known in a version sung by Cliff Richard in German as “If you laugh, happiness laughs, Sally Sunshine”; Richard's single reached number 39 in the German charts in November 1971. Leeds United was recorded at Strawberry Studios in Stockport , co-owned by Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman of 10cc ; the band played on both recordings of the soccer team.

text

The FA Cup, which has been awarded since 1911. Leeds United only won it in 1972.

In the text of Leeds United , the team of the season was singing about itself and was concerned with achieving the goal of winning the cup. The refrain is:

“And we play for Leeds United until the end,
Elland Road is the only place for us,
With heart and soul for the goal that is clearly in sight:
We are on our way to toast to each other with the silver cup.

And we play all the way for Leeds United
Elland Road is the only place for us
With heart and soul for the goal that's clearly sighted
We're out to toast each other from that silver Cup. "

- Leeds United Football Team

In the stanzas, the manager, Don Revie, is first sung about (“the boss who's right behind us”), then the season eleven with their nicknames in the following order: Senior Big Jack Jackie Charlton ; the "red headed tiger" ("red-haired tiger") team captain Billy Bremner ; "Mick the Mover" Jones ; "Top Cat" Cooper ; "Speedy" Reaney ; “Iron Man Hunter” ; “The Brains” (“the brain”) Johnny Giles ; "Sniffer" Clarke ; "The Viking" ("the Viking") David Harvey ; “Lasher” Lorimer and finally left winger Eddie “The Last Waltz” Gray .

Chart success

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
Leeds United (Leeds United Football Team)
  UK 10 04/29/1972 (10 weeks)

Two weeks after the Leeds United team reached the cup final, the song Leeds United rose to number 31 in the charts on April 29, 1972. The interest then initially waned, in the following week the single was only at number 42. But after United won the Cup final at Wembley on May 6, 1972 with a goal by Allan Clarke against the defending champion Arsenal FC , the single rose within the in tenth place next three weeks. In total, she stayed in the top 50 for ten weeks.

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References and comments

  1. ↑ List of Chartbreakers, 1971 , viewed April 14, 2012
  2. ↑ When you laugh, happiness laughs ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Chartsurfer.de, viewed on April 14, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.chartsurfer.de
  3. ↑ Keith Edwards: 10cc in 1972 . The 10cc Fan Club, spotted on April 14th, 2012
  4. ↑ Quoted from Leeds Songs , Track 10 ; Translation: Jo Atmon
  5. ↑ With the exception of Terry Cooper, these eleven players were also on the pitch when the cup final kicked off; Paul Madeley replaced Cooper, who broke his leg in April 1972.
  6. ↑ Charts UK
  7. ↑ Leeds United in the ChartArchive , accessed April 14, 2012