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I’m part of a team at the University of Sheffield, led by Dr Chris Stride. We've published a number of academic papers and magazine articles relating to football history, on subjects such as statues and replica shirts (see, for example sportingstatues.com, and https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17460263.2019.1578255).
Our current project is investigating the music that football teams have run or walked out of the tunnel to over the years.
We are looking for the music that QPR have run out to, for as many seasons in the past as you can recall. We are simply interested in the title of the song, the artist who recorded it, and for which seasons QPR ran out to this. Any help you can give us to piece together the different songs that your club has run out to would be hugely appreciated.
If you have any personal anecdotes around the reasons for the songs being used, or the changes between them, that would also be fantastic.
I should also add that we are not interested in goal music, or a song that is played at the final whistle, but just the song that is on the tannoy system as the players enter the field.
If you think someone else may be able to help, or you have any questions, please let us know! We would be very happy to discuss the project.
Cheers
Joe Headland
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Music QPR have run out to on 12:40 - Apr 2 with 4653 views
There was a song called "Terry Venables' Blue and White Army" briefly back in the 1st Division. It included the immortal line, "We're the only team sponsored by Guinness", and the chorus went "Superhoops, Superhoops, Super-super-hoops, Superhoops, Terry Venables' Blue and White Army". Can't think why it wasn't a Number 1.
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Music QPR have run out to on 14:10 - Apr 2 with 4556 views
I suppose it depends how specific you need to be here.
For quite a few years it was the Imperial March BEFORE the teams came out, but for pretty much my whole time as a ST holder (since 1999) its been Pigbag.
We've had other tunes used before the teams come out in over the years too, with Heart of Courage from some film (I think) plus the tune from Kill Bill. But they are all before the team emerges, rather than when it does.
ALTHOUGH - in the Premiership years 2011-2013 and 2014-15 we had to come out to that stupid Premier League theme tune they made every team in every game come out to, before all the clubs had played the length of it they were contracted to and could quickly replace it with their own preference.
In recent years its still been Pigbag for a short bit, then replaced with London Calling.
I'm sure when I started going to QPR it was "Ready to Go" by Republica before the teams came out, that Sunderland have been using for donkeys years.
I do quite like the traditions some clubs have with their entrance tunes that haven't changed for years and years, like Leicester using the Post-Horn Gallop, or Everton with Z Cars.
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Music QPR have run out to on 16:39 - Apr 2 with 4391 views
In the forties and fifties we ran out to some marching band music. I’d have to scour the old programmes for the exact title. I’d like to think it was John Philip Sousa's march, The Liberty Bell.
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Music QPR have run out to on 18:25 - Apr 2 with 4249 views
I was off my fu cking skate for most of '91/'92 but i seem to recall 'Fanfare for the common man'b y Prog rock collective Emerson Lake and Palmer, as our run out tune under Chairman Richard Thompson.
"...The monkey is never dead, Dealer. The monkey never dies. When you kick him off, he just hides in a corner, waiting his turn."
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Music QPR have run out to on 18:45 - Apr 2 with 4234 views
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