Musical plea for justice to aid Hillsborough battle

Aug 21 2007 by Mike Chapple, Liverpool Daily Post

A CAMPAIGNING Liverpool musician and his band have just released a limited edition CD to highlight the continuing fight of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign.

The 96 numbered copies of the “Justice for the 96” single by Western Promise will be auctioned to the highest bidders.

All the proceeds from the sale will go to the Hillsborough campaign group whose HQ still stands on Walton Breck Road opposite the Anfield ground of Liverpool FC.

“It might be over 18 years since Hillsborough but the commitment is just as strong to get the police and those other people responsible for what happened to admit what they did and also remind them that we haven’t gone away,” said lead singer and guitarist John McGlone from Rock Ferry.

He maintains that no-one has ever been held to account for the administrative blunders which led to the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans at the FA Cup semi-final against on Nottingham Forest on April 15 1989.

The band’s song also highlights the continuing bitterness that Kelvin McKenzie, the former editor of The Sun who sanctioned the infamous The Truth story which falsely accused Liverpool fans of urinating and stealing from the dead, has still not publicly apologised for his actions.

“We had McKenzie sticking his oar in again saying on BBC’s Question Time recently that he didn’t think what was reported was wrong which just poured petrol over everything all over again,” said the musician who prefers to be called Johnny Mac, and who was also involved in the Rock The Dock movement organising gigs by artists such as Pete Townsend and Noel Gallagher highlighting the plight of the sacked Liverpool Dockers.

“It might be a case of too little too late to get him to admit he was wrong but at least it will be something.

“A lot of people in this city still don’t buy The Sun and a lot of kids are picking up on it now thanks to the work of the Justice Campaign which is about educating people into what really happened and to never forget. Hopefully the record will give it all a bit of a bump-up.” For those unable to obtain the limited edition numbered CD, which was only released yesterday and is available from the HJC shop, the song can also be downloaded at www.arkade.com/KATDP for £1.20 with donations being made to the campaign.

mikechapple

Lyrics of Justice For Then 96

The clock is tick, tick, ticking on the wall,

It’s counting out the days until we fall,

Those men with hearts of stone and souls of ice,

Are trying to make us close our eyes tonight, yeah

(Chorus)

The tears are frozen in the people’s eyes,

A thousand rivers could run dry,

And time our enemy wounding with its days,

What I’m looking for is,

Something I can’t find no more,

Some justice here today,

Hear what I say now.

The sun’s not shining on the 4th estate,

While editors spread vicious lies of hate,

96 lost souls deaf, blind and mute,

While McKenzie’s in his counting house,

Counting all his loot,

(Chorus)

Justice for the 96,

Justice for the 96,

Lord won’t you help us in our fight for justice,

Lord won’t you give us our rightful justice.

The clock is tick, tick, ticking on the wall,