Stephen Grimes

Professional

Genre:

Songwriter

Biography

"All Together Now" is a song by Liverpudlian pop band The Farm from their album Spartacus, and is said to link many of the band's favourite themes, Socialism, brotherhood and football.

It took its lyrical/subject inspiration from the Christmas Day Truce in World War I and was heavily musically influenced by Johann Pachelbel's Canon and its descending chord sequence. The song was remade to accompany the English National Football Team to the Euro 2004 tournament. The song was once again remade by Atomic Kitten in 2006 as an official song for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and was featured in an entirely computer animated music video showing the World Cup mascots Goleo and Pille travelling around the world until they eventually arrive to Berlin's Olympic Stadium, the setting of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final.

The song was produced by Graham McPherson, better known as Suggs, a founding member of the band Madness, and recorded at Mayfair Studios. It was originally released on November 26, 1990, and its album cover showed a subbuteo figure wearing an army uniform and brandishing a BREN machine gun.

The song was re-released for two football causes, Everton's appearance in the 1995 FA Cup Final (odd considering the group are made up of fans of Liverpool, Everton's bitter rivals), and the campaign of the England team at Euro 2004.

In 2007 it was used in Scottish television adverts for Clydesdale Bank and in UK-wide advertisements promoting Cancer Research UK's Race for Life.

Important Works		Performances
All Together Now / The Farm Groovy Train / The Farm I Adore / Clear VU Never Too Late / Clear VU		None added