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We reported yesterday on the news that radio stations across Europe have decided to all play 'You'll Never Walk Alone' by Gerry & The Pacemakers at the same time tomorrow.

With the initiative, from a Dutch radio presenter, being done to show solidarity and unity amid the coronavirus crisis.

And now a former Glasgow chip shop 'Pavarotti' has revealed his lifelong ambition to sing the anthem in front of a packed house at Celtic Park - once the football kicks off again.

Luigi Corvi is a well known figure within the city, and as an accomplished tenor serenaded customers with his majestic voice at Val D'Oro chippy at Glasgow Cross in the Trongate for decades.

Now retired due to ill health, Luigi, from King's Park still helps his brother with deliveries at the institution - Glasgow's oldest chippy.

And speaking to Glasgow Live, Luigi said: "It's been a lifetime ambition of mine, I'd love to sing 'You'll Never Walk Alone' before the start of a match. To lead the whole mass of fans.

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"I'd do it for the sheer epic wonder of it".

For almost 50 years Luigi brought smiles to faces while he fried fish and served suppers at the chippy, serenading customers as "it was either that or I didn't sing anymore".

"I sang all the time when I was working in here. It was either that or didn't sing anymore. It would just blurt out and I would sing at the drop of a hat and have people choke on their suppers", he said.

"If someone wanted me to sing or needed me to sing because they needed a bit of cheering up - I would do something for them. And invariably hopefully they enjoyed it so much they would want me to sing even more".

He trained as a singer for a time at the RSAMD and later took opera lessons in Italy under the tutelage of the Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi - one of the greatest tenors in the world.

And he even sang for Mother Teresa when he was out in Barcelona training with Juan Oncina and Tatiana Menotti.

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"In 1980 I decided to formally start to train. I studied as a tenor and then I decided to go into the RSAMD. I did two years there. After that I studied two academies in Italy with Carlos Bergonzi, one of the great tenors of the world.

"He would audition people from all over the globe. He would have 10 to 15 pupils out of over 300 who would apply.

"I had small roles in opera in Northern Ireland and Sicilian Society and Glasgow Operatic Society events and thing like that over the years", he said.

His singing talents even saw him appear on the big screen, with Luigi playing himself in Scottish independent film Donkeys and featuring in a scene alongside Martin Compston, Kate Dickie and James Cosmo while they have a fish supper in his cafe.

And with European radio stations getting ready to blast out one of his favourite songs simultaneously tomorrow, he thinks being given the chance to sing 'You'll Never Walk Alone' at Celtic Park some time in the near future would take some beating.

"I'm just singing at the moment just for anyone that needs me to sing for them. I'm available for my family and friends if they need me.

"It would add that to the things I'm proud of - I sang at the opening ceremony of the new memorial garden at Glasgow Cathedral and sang for Mother Teresa in Barcelona".

Let's hope Luigi gets his chance sometime soon!