You’ll Never Walk Alone! Zoe Ball and Lauren Laverne join radio DJs across Europe in playing Gerry and the Pacemakers’ hit in a show of solidarity against killer coronavirus pandemic
- Radio stations across Europe simultaneously played the song in a show of unity
- Radio 2 star Zoe Ball said she was reduced to tears following the decision
- Stars chose to play Gerry and the Pacemakers’ classic ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’
- The event was organised by Dutch presenter Sander Hoogendoorn of 3FM
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Radio DJs from across Europe including Zoe Ball on Radio 2’s Breakfast Show have joined together to play Gerry And The Pacemaker’s classic track ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’.
The 49-year-old celebrity said she was ‘reduced to tears’ following the show of unity across the continent.
BBC Radio 1’s Matt and Mollie and Radio 6 Music’s Lauren Laverne were among those who all played the Gerry And The Pacemakers track You’ll Never Walk Alone on Friday morning.
Radio 2 DJ Zoe Ball, pictured here giving blood said she was close to tears when she heard hundreds of radio stars across Europe decided to play You’ll Never Walk Alone in solidarity against the coronavirus
Ms Ball was one of the BBC DJs to join in the Europe-wide event earlier this morning
Ms Ball used her Instagram page to also urge fans to go forward and give blood
Radio stations across Europe played the Gerry and the Pacemakers anthem You’ll Never Walk Alone, normally heard at Anfield as an act of solidarity with those battling the corona virus pandemic
They were joined by ‘hundreds’ of DJs in Europe.
Radio 2 Breakfast Show host Ball, 49, told listeners: ‘We are going to join in with something very special and beautiful that is happening all across Europe.
‘In an act of support and solidarity in the face of adversity and anxiety, loads and loads of breakfast shows are going to play exactly the same song at exactly the same time.’
Dutch radio presenter Sander Hoogendoorn, of station 3FM, came up with the idea.
Ball told listeners that he wants ‘everyone to know, that whatever they are going through right now, they are not alone’.
And she said afterwards: ‘I’ve got tears in my eyes, I don’t know about you.
‘I think it’s the solidarity … He’s reduced us all to tears…
‘From something that can be quite scary and worrying for all of us on so many different levels … We are all in it together and we will look after each and that’s something beautiful.’
She added: ‘I’ll pull myself together now.’
Stations in countries across Europe – including Luxembourg, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, Latvia, Slovakia, Romania and Spain – played the song, which is also the anthem of Liverpool Football Club.
Ball also told listeners that she had donated blood.
‘It’s only the second time I’ve given blood,’ she said.
‘I thought, this is a really good time if you do donate blood to keep going.
‘The messages are, to anyone who does donate blood, that blood stocks are good at the moment but the NHS wants to keep it that way during these unprecedented times.’
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