Right Here, Right Now (Fatboy Slim song)

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"Right Here, Right Now"
Right Here, Right Now (Fatboy Slim song) front cover.jpg
Single by Fatboy Slim
from the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby
B-side "Don't Forget Your Teeth"
Released19 April 1999 (1999-04-19) [1]
Length
  • 6:27 (album version)
  • 5:58 (single version)
  • 3:56 (radio edit)
Label Skint
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Fatboy Slim
Fatboy Slim singles chronology
"Praise You"
(1999)
"Right Here, Right Now"
(1999)
"Build It Up – Tear It Down"
(1999)
Music video
"Right Here, Right Now" on YouTube

"Right Here, Right Now" is a song by British big beat musician Fatboy Slim, released on 19 April 1999 as the fourth single from his second studio album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998). The song samples "Ashes, the Rain & I" by James Gang and an Angela Bassett quote from American science fiction thriller film Strange Days (1995). "Right Here, Right Now" reached number two on the UK Singles Chart and became a top-40 hit in Australia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, and the Walloon region of Belgium. It was voted by Mixmag readers as the 10th-greatest dance record of all time. [2]

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Critical reception

The single of Right Here, Right Now topped the UK Indie charts in 1999. The Scottish newspaper Daily Record called the song "brilliant". [3]

Its popularity was further spread across Europe through viral use in advertisements by companies such as Adidas. [4]

Music video

The music video for the song, created by Hammer & Tongs, is an elaborate homage to the famous opening sequence of the French educational series Once Upon a Time... Man . It shows a timeline depicting the entire process of human evolution condensed into three and a half minutes.

Track listings

UK and Australian CD single; UK 12-inch single [5] [6]

  1. "Right Here, Right Now"
  2. "Don't Forget Your Teeth"
  3. "Praise You" (original version)

UK cassette single and European CD single [7] [8]

  1. "Right Here, Right Now"
  2. "Don't Forget Your Teeth"

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [27] Gold30,000*
United Kingdom (BPI) [28] Platinum600,000

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

In 2004, then–Leader of the Labour Party Tony Blair used the song during a Labour Party conference without Cook's permission, just one year after the start of the Iraq War. Cook openly opposed its usage, claiming that the usage "implies that I support Blair. Nothing could be further from the truth." [29]

On 8 October 2019, Fatboy Slim made a remix of the song using environmental activist Greta Thunberg's United Nations speech. [30] The song was used for the opening sequence of the pilot episode for the television series Third Watch . [31]

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