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You'll Never Walk Alone is a Gospel act. They run in the same orbit as Affection, Dreaming of You and Love Will Tear Us Apart, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Elvis Presley and Josh Groban, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 5 connections around You'll Never Walk Alone and forward to Elvis Presley. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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"You'll Never Walk Alone" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. In the second act of the musical, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, stabs himself with a knife whilst trying to run away after attempting a robbery with his mate Jigger and dies in her arms. The song is reprised as an epilogue in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise Bigelow is a member as the Starkeeper is about to give them a graduation sermon. The now invisible Billy, who has been granted the chance to return to Earth for one day in order to redeem himself, watches the ceremony and at the end of the Starkeeper's homily is able to silently motivate Louise and Julie to join in with the song as the whole congregation unite in singing along with them urged on by the Starkeeper as he ascends to paradise.
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You'll Never Walk Alone shares an orbit with Affection, Dreaming of You and Love Will Tear Us Apart, went on to shape Elvis Presley and Josh Groban. 5 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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