Rock musician Pete Wylie was "scampering" around to get tickets in the week before the game. He was handed a lifeline when the club asked the former Wah Heat frontman to perform a set from the stage of the cold and windswept "party" area reserved for Liverpool fans outside the Ataturk Stadium before the game. "It taught me one thing never do a concert where you can see armed soldiers and sheep in the same field," jokes the pop star whose performance secured an entrance for himself and the rest of the band, Martyn Campbell, Paul Tsanos, Robbie Harper plus the roadie Kenna and the guest DJ Danny from Liverpool band Ladytron. "It was the most amazing day of my life and I've cleared that with my daughter because until then the day she was born was the top." Included in the set was his song Heart as Big as Liverpool - inspired by Liverpool's iconic manager Bill Shankly - although he was presented with a problem, for obvious reasons, when it came to performing one of his biggest 80s hits with Wah, The Story of the Blues. "Just before we went on stage Brian Reade suggested that instead we should sing Emlyn Hughes instead of Blues. "Not only was it appropriate in paying tribute to one of the great Liverpool players but it also shows that with a great club like Liverpool history means such a lot. So we paid tribute to others as well including John Peel and the Hillsborough 96. "It wasn't just a jolly-up because in Liverpool we always remember the people who aren't there." He adds: "When it got to half-time everyone thought we were going to lose and I even saw one guy leaving. "But I kept saying `We're gonna win, we're gonna win. The whole point of going to a game is to be a part of it to make your contribution, not just to be entertained. Would Steven Gerrard leave the ground five minutes before half-time just because the team were losing three-nil? No." The one thing he remembers vividly is hugging his mates after the penalty shoot-out and repeatedly shouting: "We were here!" as the historical significance of such an amazing comeback sank in. "We were one big gang all together and I've never felt anything like it. I do feel we played a part in what happened that night." Former Daily Post journalist Brian Reade now a broadcaster and award-winning columnist with the Daily Mirror was on holiday and travelled to Istanbul taking with him 16-year-old son Philip. "It was definitely the greatest football moment of my life and that includes Rome and St Etienne. It was an incredible experience especially because I had Philip with me. "It was great for him because any Liverpool fan up to the age of 30 years old must have got fed up listening to all these boring old farts talking about all the glory days and European Cup Final victories that were never going to happen again." The misery of half-time, however, is hard to recall."I was numb with shock. I couldn't work out what had gone on. I felt that this great European legacy that had been built up over 40 years was going to fall apart and we were only going to be remembered for producing one of the worst defeats ever in a final. "I actually went out to the back of the stadium and did something I have haven't done for years and that was pray. But then I though even that's a waste of time because the Milan players are all Catholics and they've got the Pope on their side!" About 20 minutes later that had all changed "I felt lucky and honoured to be there. "I remember looking at the scoreboard when it read three-all, grabbing Philip and saying `You look at that and remember never, ever, give up on anything again'. "It was a big lesson in how to live your life." | 
