LIVERPOOL MUSIC HERITAGE TRAIL – Liverpool Stadium
Liverpool Stadium 1932 – 1987
“The smell of the place, if only you could bottle it …other venues never matched the Stadium’s. Maybe it was a terrible place acoustically but the atmosphere in there was electric. “
Charlie, Stadium regular, circa 2010
Liverpool’s grand Cotton Exchange building on Old Hall Street, deep in its commercial district, was completed in 1906. A monument to Liverpool’s global influence in the cotton trade, in 1932 it gained an unruly next-door neighbour.
The UK’s first purpose-built boxing venue, Liverpool Stadium, was housed on the site of the old St Paul’s Church. The Stadium’s ornate art-deco facade was pure showbiz, its vast barn interior simple functionality. Demolished in 1985, today it is the site of a modern network of office developments.
Liverpool Stadium earned the unenviable reputation of being the ‘graveyard of champions’. With a visceral, intense and tribal atmosphere, the venue was perfect for music.
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