The Evening Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.
Steven Gerrard waved goodbye to Anfield last Saturday on an emotional day on Merseyside.
The Liverpool captain will leave the club this summer for MLS side LA Galaxy 17-years after making his debut, having come on as a last-minute substitute against Blackburn Rovers in 1998.
Liverpool would go on to lose 3-1 to Crystal Palace on Gerrard’s grand farewell, but speaking after match, the Reds legend admitted it was day he had been ‘dreading’.
"It felt very strange," admitted Gerrard after the game. "I've been dreading this moment, I will miss it so much. I have loved every minute and I am devastated that I will not play in front of these supporters again."
But it Saturday’s send-off was more than just a seas of banners, chants and Gerrard leading his three daughters through the ‘guard of honour’ formed by Liverpool and Crystal Palace players.
There was a musical accompaniment too.
George Sephton has been the ‘Voice of Anfield’ for nearly 44 years. In tribute to Liverpool’s departing captain, he comprised - with suggestions from Liverpool fans - a 36-song-long playlist to blast over the Anfield loudspeaker to help the club pay their respects to Gerrard.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">As promised. Yesterday's playlist. Most of them got an airing but not quite all of them <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.awin1.com/awclick.php?mid=9&id=222025&p=http://t.co/0SuAKRsQGp" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-44911-http://t.co/0SuAKRsQGp" data-vars-event-id="c23">pic.twitter.com/0SuAKRsQGp</a>— George Sephton (@VoiceOfAnfield) <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://twitter.com/VoiceOfAnfield/status/599852943349784576" class="body-link" data-vars-item-name="BL-44911-https://twitter.com/VoiceOfAnfield/status/599852943349784576" data-vars-event-id="c23">May 17, 2015</a>
He conceded after the match that ‘not quite all of them’ reverberated around the ground on Gerrard’s big day, as he released the official playlist to the masses.
Here is the Steven Gerrard farewell playlist in full:
- Change - Lightning Seeds
- Ain’t No Sunshine - Bill Withers
- Anfield Row - The View
- Breakfast in America – Supertramp
- Bye Bye Love - The Everly Brothers
- California Dreaming - The Mamas and the Papas
- Come Back - The Mighty Wah
- Coming to America - Neil Diamond
- Days - The Kinks
- Don’t Go - Hothouse Flowers
- Don’t Leave Me This Way - The Communards
- Don’t Look Back In Anger – Oasis
- Final Countdown – Europe
- Heart As Big As Liverpool - Pete Wylie
- Heroes – Bowie
- In My Life - The Beatles
- It Must Have Been Love – Roxette
- It’s A Kind of Magic – Queen
- LA Woman - The Doors
- Leaving On A Jet Plane - John Denver
- Let It Be - The Beatles
- Letter From America - The Proclaimers
- Living In America - James Brown
- Mersey Paradise - Stone Roses
- No More Heroes - The Stranglers
- Nobody Does It Better - Carly Simon
- Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O’Connor
- Nothing Lasts Forever - Echo and the Bunnymen
- Please Don’t Go – KWS
- Que Sera - Andre Rieu
- Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
- So You Win Again - Hot Chocolate
- Steven’s Last Night In Town - Ben Folds Five
- Steve’s Last Rumble - Steve Earl
- Stevie – Kasabian
- Thank you - Dido
