The Crowd (band) The Crowd (band) The Crowd was a charity supergroup formed specifically to produce a charity record for the Bradford City stadium fire, in which 56 people died on 11 May 1985. The group consisted of singers, actors, television personalities and others. Gerry Marsden of Gerry and the Pacemakers had decided to make a charity record to aid the families of the victims of the disaster (the "Bradford City Disaster Fund"). The re-recording of the 1963 number 1 hit song "You'll Never Walk Alone" from the broadway musical "Carousel", also a 'football anthem' for Liverpool supporters, entered the UK charts at
Gerry Fiennes Gerry Fiennes Gerry Fiennes (full name: Gerard Francis Gisborne Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes OBE, MA) (7 June 1906 – 25 May 1985) was a British railway manager who rose through the ranks of the London and North Eastern Railway and later British Rail following graduation from Oxford University. He was educated at Winchester College and Hertford College, Oxford and then joined the London and North Eastern Railway as a Traffic Apprentice in 1928. He was related to the actors Ralph and Joseph Fiennes, and the explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes. After his apprenticeship his subsequent appointments included: Fiennes was largely responsible for pushing for