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It's coming home: Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds announce 30th anniversary re-release of 'Three Lions'

NME·Liberty Dunworth·21 days ago
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Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds have announced a 30th anniversary re-release of ‘Three Lions’, as England head into another World Cup this summer. READ MORE: NME Explains: How Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds wrote ‘Three Lions (Football’s Coming Home)’ The track will be released on June 12 ( pre-order it here ), and arrives three decades after comedy duo David Baddiel and Frank Skinner joined forces with indie rockers The Lightning Seeds to write the track in celebration of England hosting the Euro 96 tournament. It went on to become the only song to ever reach UK Number One on four separate occasions with the same artist. It topped the charts twice when it first dropped in 1996, climbed back to the peak position for three consecutive weeks during the 1998 World Cup, and again in 2018. With the latter, it made chart history by jumping from Number 24 to Number One in just a week.…

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