“Heart As Big As Liverpool” by Pete Wylie (ft. The Mighty Wah!)
The lyrics of “Heart As Big As Liverpool” start off reading like a song where the vocalist is emitting his undying appreciation for a loved one, the addressee, who has held him down through thick and thin. Seemingly, it is this same individual who Pete is biggin’ up as having a ‘heart as big as his hometown’, that of course being Liverpool. So it’s as if Wylie is killing two birds with one stone, simultaneously showing love to a special someone and his ‘hood of Liverpool at the same time.
The nature of the vocalist’s relationship with the addressee is never specified. Another aspect of the narrative that is never truly clarified is if the possessing a “heart as big as Liverpool” is a characteristic that belongs to the singer or the addressee. All lyrics considered, the safe conclusion would be that said designation applies to both of them. And in the mind of the vocalist, saying someone has a “heart as big as Liverpool” comes as being the ultimate interpersonal compliment.
That’s because as implied, what possessing the titular characteristic actually entails, most simply put, is a faithful commitment to loved ones. So implicitly, what is being put forth here is not only that Liverpudlians have a ‘big heart’. But more to the point, they are the types to support each other in times of need. Thus, one of the advantage of being associated with such an individual is the comfort of knowing that “you are not alone”. So basically, true Liverpudlians are being depicted as a compassionate lot.
Pete Wylie
Wylie is a singer who is in fact from Liverpool, England. He has been professionally active since the late 1970s. It was during the early 1980s, as the frontman of an outfit known Wah! (or The Mighty Wah!) that Wylie dropped a couple of albums which appeared on the UK Albums Chart.
Later in the decade, he also put out a few songs on his own that charted. And to note, the biggest hit in Pete’s discography is a 1983 Wah! track entitled “The Story of the Blues”, which peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart.
“Heart As Big As Liverpool”
“Heart As Big As Liverpool” is a song that came out in 1998. Pete Wylie also dropped an EP named after the song in the year 2000.
This song does not have any chart history to speak of, again coming out well after Wylie’s heyday. However, even though it did not prove to be a conventional hit, even more importantly from a certain perspective, the tune ended being adopted as an anthem by fans of the Liverpool Football Club, which is one of the most-popular soccer teams in the world.
