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'''The La's''' were a [[Liverpool]]-based band of the late [[1980s]] and early [[1990s]], consisting of eccentric frontman [[Lee Mavers]] (vocals), [[John Power]] (bass, backing vocals) plus a series of guitarists and drummers. They were responsible for the original version of the famous pop song "There She Goes".

clubname = S.S. Lazio |

image = [[Image:Ss_lazio.gif|150px|logo]] |

fullname = Società Sportiva Lazio<br>1900 SpA |

nickname = ''Biancocelesti'' |

founded = [[1900]] |

ground = [[Stadio Olimpico]],<br/>[[Rome]], [[Italy]] |

capacity = 82,656 |

chairman = [[Claudio Lotito]] |

manager = [[Delio Rossi]] |

league = [[Serie A]] |

season = 2004-05 |

position = [[Serie A]], 10th |

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'''S.S. Lazio''' ([[Italian language|Italian]]: ''Società Sportiva Lazio SpA'') is an [[Italy|Italian]] [[football (soccer)|football]] club based in [[Rome]]. They are known as the ''biancocelesti''. They play in light blue shirts, with white shorts and socks.

==Biography==

The club was founded on January 9th 1900 as Società Podistica Lazio. The name Lazio was taken from the Latin word "Latium", that means "wide", meeting the aim of the founders to symbolize something that includes Rome, but which is not limited to Rome (in fact, Lazio is the name of [[Latium|the region where Rome lies]]). The sky blue and white strip colours were inspired by the [[Greece|Greek]] flag and the country which gave birth to Olympic tradition. At the very beginning of its history, the club ran a number of different sporting activities and, from 1902, the club started the football section.

The group attracted the attention of several record labels after a series of performances in their home town of [[Liverpool]] in [[1986]]. They signed with [[Go! Discs]].

The club did not join the [[Italian Football League|league]] competition until 1913. They made the national decider a number of times but lost, often heavily - 9-1 on aggregate to Casale in 1914 and 6-1 on aggregate to [[Genoa 1893]] in 1923.

The band's first single ("Way Out", released in [[October]] [[1987]] on Go! Discs (GOLAS 112)) was mixed with producer Gavin McKillop, but attracted little notice at the time. It was given a thumbs-up mention by [[The Smiths]]' frontman [[Morrissey]] in the music magazine, [[Melody Maker]]. Five thousnand copies were pressed.

The club played in the first [[Serie A]], but their highest pre-war finish was second in 1937. Post-war the club continued to fail in the league, but did win the [[Coppa Italia]] in 1958. However, they had to wait until 1974 for their first ''scudetto''.

The La's gained success as a live act and drew comparisons to the [[The Beatles|Beatles]], due to their origins and Mavers' expressive lyrics. They continued to perform, however at a national level. Bootleg demo tapes copied from a session at the Picket rehearsal studio in Liverpool in 1986 circulated and succeeded in creating a minor buzz.

However, when [[Sergio Cragnotti]] became president of the club, he was prepared to invest long-term in new players for the club. In 1993 Lazio finished fifth in Serie A, fourth in 1994, second in 1995, third in 1996, and fourth again in 1997 before winning the ''scudetto'' for the second time in 2000 with [[Sven-Göran Eriksson]] (1997-2001) as manager. They had Coppa Italia victories in 1998, 2000 and 2004 and they also won the last UEFA [[Cup Winners' Cup]] in 1999.

Another single (from a different recording session), "There She Goes", was released in 1988 with the B-sides "Come In Come Out" and "Who Knows". The song garnered some attention and airplay, but performed poorly in the charts. The music video for "There She Goes" features the La's scampering through Liverpool streets and was filmed on a handheld camera. The song has been used on several soundtracks, including the films "So I Married An Ax Murderer" and "Fever Pitch".

But after a financial scandal which invested Cragnotti and his foodstuff multinational [[Cirio]], Lazio was controlled in 2004 by a bank pool, in order to be sold to enterpreneur [[Claudio Lotito]], who is the current team owner. The new season for Lazio brought away several strong team players, who were sold to make up the big deficit that regarded the team, which is quoted at the ''Piazza Affari'' Italian stock market. During this summer, former 36-year old Lazio star [[Paolo Di Canio]] accepted to join his favourite team one more time, giving up a much more worthwhile contract from his previous team [[Charlton Athletic F.C.|Charlton Athletic]].

After working with producer [[Jeremy Allom]] at the Pink Museum Studio in Liverpool in May 1989 the band were set to release "Timeless Melody" (GOLAS 3) as a single. While it became a "record of the week" in the UK magazine [[New Musical Express]], Mavers was unhappy with how it sounded and it remained commercially unreleased. B-sides included a version of "Clean Prophet" that is still not officially released to this day, and a [[blues]] jam entitled "Ride Yer Camel" which ran for about nine minutes. This record is extremely rare.

The club plays at the 82,656 seater Stadio Olimpico, shared with [[A.S. Roma]]. The two teams play one another each year in the [[Rome derby]], a fiery, emotional match often marked with tension and fights in the stands. The two clubs have a history of rivalry; in the 2003 season an unprecedented event occurred when the [[A.S. Roma|Roma]] [[Ultras]] forced the game to be suspended after false rumours spread around the stadium that a child had been killed by the police prior to the beginning of the game. In the current 2004/2005 season, Lazio won the first leg of the derby 3-1, while the second leg was a 0-0 draw.

The group then spent several years recording and re-recording their intended album, with a constantly changing line-up, where only the core of Mavers and Power remained the same. Discarded producers included The Smiths' producer John Porter, John Leckie, and Mike Hedges.

Famous Lazio players include [[Alen Bokšić]], [[Giorgio Chinaglia]], [[Paul Gascoigne]], [[Silvio Piola]], [[Giuseppe Signori]], [[Pavel Nedvěd]], [[Juan Sebastián Verón]], [[Paolo Di Canio]], [[Jaap Stam]], [[Angelo Peruzzi]], [[Hernán Crespo]], [[Dino Baggio]], [[Roberto Mancini]], [[Christian Vieri]] and [[Alessandro Nesta]].

The lineup settled with Neil Mavers, Lee's brother, as drummer, and Peter "Cammy" Cammel as lead guitarist. With this lineup they entered the studio yet again in December 1989 to attempt to record the debut album with producer Steve Lillywhite at Eden Studios, London. These sessions were the band's last, and was were an album was finally made.

==First team squad==

Recognition, at least critically, came in [[1990]] when the self-titled album, ''[[The La's (album)|The La's]]'', was finally released. The album included, among new material, re-recorded versions of all the previous singles, including a remixed version of "There She Goes" re-released as a single. This time around, the song reached number 13 in the [[UK singles chart]].

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'''Goalkeepers'''

*1 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Angelo Peruzzi]]

*32 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Marco Ballotta]]

*33 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Matteo Sereni]]

'''Defenders'''

*2 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Guglielmo Stendardo]]

*5 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Felice Piccolo]]

*7 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Manuel Belleri]]

*8 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Luciano Zauri]]

*13 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Sebastiano Siviglia]]

*16 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Andrea Giallombardo]]

*22 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Massimo Oddo]]

*25 {{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Emilson Sanchez Cribari|Cribari]]

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'''Midfielders'''

*3 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Roberto Baronio]]

*4 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Fabio Firmani]]

*6 {{flagicon|France}} [[Ousmane Dabo]]

*10 {{flagicon|Brazil}} [[César Rodríguez Aparecido|Fucking Bitch]]

*20 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Fabio Liverani]]

*31 {{flagicon|Denmark}} [[Christian Keller]]

*68 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Christian Manfredini]]

*85 {{flagicon|Switzerland}} [[Valon Behrami]]

*TBD {{flagicon|Belgium}} [[Gaby Mudingayi]]

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'''Attackers'''

*9 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Paolo Di Canio]]

*17 {{flagicon|Albania}} [[Igli Tare]]

*18 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Tommaso Rocchi]]

*19 {{flagicon|Macedonia}} [[Goran Pandev]]

*21 {{flagicon|Italy}} [[Simone Inzaghi]]

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==Team honors==

Additional singles from the album included the LP versions of "Timeless Melody" and "Feelin'". Both did reasonably well, rearching chart placings in the top 40. "Feelin'", thanks to a box set special edition release, reached the top 20. However, the band split before the [[1991]] release of "Feelin'".

*Italian Champions '''2''' 1973/74 1999/00

*[[Coppa Italia|Italian Cup]] '''4''' 1958 1997/98 1999/00 2003/04

*Italian SuperCup '''1''' 1998

*UEFA [[Cup Winners' Cup]] '''1''' 1998/99

*[[European Super Cup]] '''1''' 1999

==External links==

Amid rumours that Mavers had vowed not to record any new material until after the first catalogue had been re-recorded to his satisfaction, scrapped sessions remained a constant problem for the La's and their increasingly frustrated record company.

*''[http://www.sslazio.it/ Official site]'' (in [[Italian language|Italian]])

*[http://www.lazionet.net Lazio.net Community] (Ass. Cult. Lazio.net)

*[http://www.fcitalia.com/lazio/news/newslazio.htm SS Lazio News] (FC Italia, in Italian)

*[http://www.laziofever.com LazioFever] The International site in English language about Lazio

*[http://www.franciabiancoceleste.com Francia Biancoceleste] (Ultras Lazio, in french)

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The band actually walked out on the Lillywhite sessions, due to complaints that Lillywhite used vocal guide tracks on the LP. This left Lillywhite to piece together the released LP from guide tracks by himself. Upon release of the album the band played several more live shows before dropping out of the limelight.

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No releasable studio work was completed on a second album, despite Mavers' many unreleased songs and, according to local sources, endlessly recording them by himself in the privacy of his own home. The de facto breakup of The La's came when Power formed a new, more commercially successful but less critically acclaimed group, [[Cast (band)|Cast]], in [[1993]]. "Cast" is the last word of "Lookin' Glass", the last song on The La's album.

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Mavers was never comfortable with media attention or with the results of all his recording sessions. With a few random ex-La's he resurfaced to play with [[Dodgy]], [[Paul Weller]] and [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] in [[1995]], although he has since claimed this was to raise funds, as oppose to stage a full-blown comeback.

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In [[2001]] ''The La's'' was re-released in the UK, under the Universal label. It featured the album, now digitally remastered (although audibly identical to the original), plus previously available B-sides "All By Myself", "Knock Me Down", "Clean Prophet", "IOU Alternate", "Over", yet the release is missing many B-side tracks that most La's fans found essential.

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In [[March]] [[2005]] The La's announced a three date UK reunion tour ahead of an appearance at Japan's Summer Sonic festival, followed by dates announced in the UK and Ireland, with the line-up of Lee Mavers (vox, guitar), John Power (bass), Jay Lewis of band Cracatilla (guitar) and Nick Miniski (drums).

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==Discography==

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===Singles & EPs===

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* "Way Out" - October 1987- Did Not Chart

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* "There She Goes" - November 1988 - UK #59

* "Timeless Melody" - May 1989 - Did Not Chart

* "Timeless Melody" (Re-Issue) - September 1990 - UK #57

* "There She Goes" (New Version) - October 1990 - UK #13, US #49

* "Feelin'" - February 1991 - #43

* Fever Pitch [[EP]] (Contained "There She Goes" amongst songs by other artists including [[The Pretenders]]) - May 1997 - UK #65

* "There She Goes" (Re-Issue) - October 1999 - UK #65

===Albums===

*[[1990]] - ''[[The La's (album)|The La's]]'' ([[Go! Discs]]) UK #30

===Compilations===

*[[2000]] - ''[[Breakloose: Lost La's 1984-1986]]'' ([[Viper]]) Did Not Chart

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