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 05 July 2008 14:50 BST

England fails to embrace World Cup tune

Friday, 21 Apr 2006 12:04
England fails to embrace World Cup tune
The first playing of the official song to accompany the England football team at this summer's World Cup has been met with a muted reception.

World At Your Feet, by melodic Huddersfield rockers Embrace, will be released on June 5th, four days before the tournament kicks off in Germany.

But football fans were given the chance to hear it more than a month in advance, after it was given a radio airing this morning.

And the general reception has been mixed, with BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles calling the rousing tune "perfect" but many fans expressing doubts about the chances of it being sung with gusto on the terraces.

The song, which starts slowly and gradually builds up the tempo, does not mention the word 'football' at all and seems more made for chart success than many past football songs.

But the FA will be hoping that supporters learn to love the Danny McNamara-penned song and that it will prove as successful as New Order's 1990 hit World in Motion and Baddiel and Skinner's uproarious Three Lions number ones from 1996 and 1998.

Lead singer McNamara has admitted to being nervous about the reception the song will receive, but will have been buoyed by a warm reaction from those who got to hear it first at a north London pub yesterday with the band and Moyles on hand.

"We think we've got a really great song in World At Your Feet and with luck it'll capture the nations mood as well as New Order's World In Motion," McNamara said.

"It was a real honour to be asked and I hope we've delivered".

The tune is released on Independiente records and is likely to be joined by a clutch of unofficial football songs all looking to get aboard the World Cup bandwagon.track End of story


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