Right Here Right Now (Fatboy Slim song)

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"Right Here Right Now"

Single by Fatboy Slim
from the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Released	1998
Format	CD
Genre	Big Beat
Length	06 min 27 s
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer(s)	Fatboy Slim
Chart positions
#2 (UK)
Fatboy Slim singles chronology
Praise You (1999)	Right Here Right Now (1999)	Badder Badder Schwing (featuring Freddy Fresh) (1999)

"Right Here Right Now" is a 1999 single by Fatboy Slim. The song reached #2 on the UK charts. It was released on the studio album You've Come a Long Way, Baby and the compilation album The Greatest Hits - Why Try Harder.

The music video of the single shows evolution, stars and cells eventually evolving into the obese man from the You've Come a Long Way, Baby album cover.

[edit] Usage

As the Pittsburgh Steelers' introduction song in Super Bowl XL.
In trailers for the films Crank and The Virgin Suicides, and has also been featured prominently in the films Any Given Sunday, Big Fat Liar, There's Only One Jimmy Grimble and The Skulls, along with others.
In a series of car commercials for GM's Cadillac brand in 2006 as well as a series of U.S. car commercials for GM's Oldsmobile brand in 2000, the penultimate ad campaign for that brand.
As the UK Labour Party's election anthem the United Kingdom general election, 2005^[1]
In documentaries about the British Royal Family, the signal intelligence network ECHELON (both by the BBC) and violence associated with the East Timor independence referendum (on Australian radio station Triple J).
The song was used for Kart Racing for the German TV Series "Schloss Einstein"[(Castle Einstein) named after Albert Einstein]
Used in an Adidas advert in 1999, directed by Mike Mills and photographed by Joaquín Baca-Asay (mov)
Featured prominently in the Veronica Mars episode, "Spit & Eggs"
Featured in the opening scene of the first episode of the TV series Third Watch
As the theme song for RTÉ Sport's Formula One Coverage until they lost the rights to the sport at the end of the 2004 season.
A cover of the song is used as a theme song for the Bulgarian music channel MM's morning show.
The song features in the 2000 film There's Only One Jimmy Grimble
The song was used over a period of several years as the theme for Danish TV-channel TV Danmark's (now Kanal 5) soccer commercials.
The song was featured in the final race scene of the movie Driven.

[edit] Trivia

The song samples "Ashes, the Rain and I" by The James Gang from their 1970 album James Gang Rides Again.
Part of this song was sampled on "Hana (D-Z DEADLY ROSE APPROACH)" on Ayumi Hamasaki's remix album ayu-mi-x.
Two remixes (Redanka Remix, Freemasons Remix) of the song appear on the "That Old Pair of Jeans" single.
The sample saying "Right here, right now" is from Angela Bassett in the film Strange Days.