Come On England

Come On England
"Come On England"
Single by 4-4-2
Released June 2004
Format CD single
Genre football, novelty
Label Gut
Writer(s) Music: Kevin Rowland, "Big" Jim Paterson, Billy Adams
Lyrics: Steve Fox

Come On England, a music single by the band 4-4-2. A football-themed song, it was released in June 2004 to coincide with the England national team's appearance at the European Championships. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 2.[1]

The song is a re-working of the Dexys Midnight Runners hit, "Come On Eileen". It was played exclusively on talkSPORT radio and several of the station's presenters, including Adrian Durham, Alvin Martin and Micky Quinn, provided backing vocals on the song's Top of the Pops and CD:UK performances.

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The band consisted of several unsigned musicians from around the UK brought together especially to record the song. Brought together by Barry "BURBs" Ratcliffe who ran the BURBs (British Underground Rock Bands) website 4-4-2 also went on to record a christmas single and a world cup 2006 song.

The video features the popular glamour models Lucy Pinder and Michelle Marsh. No band members featured on the video but the band did appear on both CD-UK and Top of the Pops.

  1. ^ "Come On England". everyhit.com. http://www.everyhit.com. Retrieved 2 July 2007. 

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