"Jim. Have you ever been to the Last Night Of The Proms?"
No I haven't, but I tended to watch it on TV.
I don't know how LOHAG was introduced into the proceeings any more than I know how YNWA (via Geryy and the Pacemakers?) ended up on the terraces, but I suspect there is little difference in the motives of the culprits in both cases.
I have to say that the singing at the Albert Hall did bring bile to the throat at the time of the Falklands War.
A confession; I left Liverpool in the mid-sixties and headed east for Manchester because at that time, if you weren't interested in football or the Beatles, there was really little else to hang around for - non-Merseybeat entertainment, work (especially work), decent theatre or cinema.... nowt. Songs like the one in question have always been, for me at least, a part of the campaign to sell Merseyside as a pseudo-independent-republic - a 'feelgood factor' to make a highly anti-establishment people accept the shit that was (and is still being) thrown at them.
Jim Carroll