From Coronation Anthem to Football Anthem (Zadock the Priest)

As one of the final acts in his reign, King George the 1st, was to naturalise composer George Frederic Handel as a British citizen and commission him to write the coronation anthem for the king's successor George the 2nd. While looking through the old testament in hope of finding a way to squander anti-Hanoverian (due to English being a second language to him and being from Hanover in what we know call Germany), George 1 came across how Zadock the priest and Nathan the prophet anointed Solomon as the King when King David of Israel was facing a succession crisis. George 1 wanted his son's coronation to establish George the second as the legitimate ruler in the public's eye. With that. Handel was called upon to write an appropriately-grandiose of anthems and he didn't disappoint. Out of the four anthems he composed, Zadock the Priest which was first sung at George the Second's coronation on 11 October 1727 became the coronation anthem in Britain, being played at every coronation since then, traditionally during the sovereign's anointing.
In 1992, after the Three Tenors at the World Cup in Italy made classical music all the rage, English composer Tony Britten adapted Zadock the Priest into the UEFA Champions League anthem. Sung in the UFEA's three official languages (English, French and German), the theme is performed on televised broadcasts of football matches by London's Philharmonic Orchestra and sung by the Academy of St Martin.