Beautiful Day (3 Colours Red song)

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'Beautiful Day' was the first single from 3 Colours Reds second album, Revolt, it was released on Creation Records in 1999.

The song was written by frontman/ bassist Pete Vuckovic and recorded at Rockfield Studios in London in 1999, it showed a more sensitive and epic side to the bands previously punk/ pop dominated sound, it was the bands biggest commercial hit, reaching number 11 in the U.K charts when it was released at the end of the millennium (it was kept out of the top 10 by 'Chef' from cult U.S comedy South Park), throwing them further into the media headlights and paving the way for the bands American campaign where the song received considerable radio airplay, even entering the charts. The band toured the U.S with Marilyn Manson and Aerosmith, later Vuckovic did an acoustic promotional tour of radio stations on the back of the songs success.

It was later blamed for splitting the band up having allegedly distanced Vuckovic from his bandmates and fueled a creative powerstruggle between him and his co-writer Chris McCormack.

'Beautiful Day' was later used on Channel 4s 2003 dating show 'Boys & Girls'.