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"Parklife" is a song by the English rock band Blur, released in August 1994 by Food and Parlophone as the third single from the band's third studio album, Parklife (1994). The song contains spoken-word verses by the actor Phil Daniels , who also appears in the music video, which was directed by Pedro Romhanyi.
The song appears in the 1989 Only Fools & Horses episode "The Jolly Boys' Outing" (about a day trip to Margate) with minor lyric changes from the single version and the voices of David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst added. This version was released on Vinyl in 2019 to mark Record Store Day, and the 30th Anniversary of the episode airing.
Parklife is the third studio album by the English rock band Blur, released on 25 April 1994, by Food Records. After moderate sales for their previous album Modern Life Is Rubbish (1993), Parklife returned Blur to prominence in the UK, helped by its four hit singles: " Girls & Boys ", " To the End ", the title track and " End of a Century ".
The song's lyrics reference a low-pressure area of weather hitting Britain. The lyrics are based on the Shipping Forecast, with references made to the various areas surrounding the country. [1] In the lyric "sail on by with the tide", passing reference is also made to the tune "Sailing By", which plays at the start of the 0048 forecast on BBC ...
He narrated tracks "Parklife" and "Me, White Noise" on the Parklife and Think Tank albums for Blur. [3] He contributed the voice of Fetcher, the dull-witted rat to the animated film Chicken Run. In recent years he has turned his attention to comedy, appearing in the series Sunnyside Farm and alongside Al Murray in the cult sitcom Time Gentlemen ...
All the People: Blur Live at Hyde Park is a pair of live albums by British band Blur, recorded during their Hyde Park reunion shows on 2 and 3 July 2009. The albums were initially exclusively available on the Sandbag website at £15 for the double CD, or £10 for the mp3 download. The title All the People is a lyric from their song "Parklife".
Although not a football song and only released in as late as 1994, "Parklife" had been adopted as a football chant by football fans by 1996, and as such has featured on other football-related compilation albums, and even featured in Nike's critically acclaimed football-based 1997 television advertisement Parklife, ranked the 14th best advert of ...
The Great Escape is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Blur.It was released on 11 September 1995 on Food and Virgin Records.The album reached number one on the UK Albums Chart and charted in the top 10 in more than ten countries around the world.