All Together Now (The Farm Song)
"All Together Now" is a song by Liverpudlian pop band The Farm from their album Spartacus, and links some of the band's favourite themes: socialism, brotherhood and football.
It took its inspiration from the Christmas Day Truce in World War I where on Christmas Day 1914 soldiers from both sides put their weapons down and met in no-mans-land to exchange gifts and play football. The song is heavily influenced musically by Johann Pachelbel's "Canon" and its descending chord sequence.
The song was produced by Graham McPherson, better known as Suggs, a founding member of the band Madness, and recorded at Mayfair Studios. It was originally released on 26 November 1990 peaking at #4 on the UK Singles Chart and #7 on the U.S. Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and its single cover showed a subbuteo figure wearing an army uniform and brandishing a BREN machine gun. It was also shown on The Power Station while the last music video is played on 8 April 1991.
In March 1994, it was performed by the band and a host of famous Liverpudlians in front of the Spion Kop at Anfield before the last ever Merseyside derby in front of the old Kop, which was demolished later that year and replaced by an all-seater stand.
In 2007 it was used in Scottish television adverts for Clydesdale Bank and in UK-wide advertisements promoting Cancer Research UK's Race for Life. It is also used as the theme tune for Sky Sports Football League coverage.
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Famous quotes containing the word farm:
“I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruit, but dollars; who loves not the beauty of his fruits, whose fruits are not ripe for him till they are turned to dollars. Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)