THREE LIONS’ HD VIDEO & MESSAGE TO THE ENGLAND TEAM

PROJECTED ON WHITE CLIFFS OF DOVER AHEAD OF EURO 2020 FINAL

Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds project ‘Three Lions’ video & good luck message to England squad on white cliffs of Dover

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As England prepare themselves for their first major final in 55 years against Italy on Sunday, Baddiel, Skinner and Lightning Seeds have given the team a special good luck message, projected onto the white cliffs of Dover alongside the HD video for their hit ‘Three Lions’. The track, which is currently celebrating its 25th anniversary, has once again been the soundtrack to England’s tournament, reentering the top 5 of the Official Charts at number 4 yesterday, following the semi final win over Denmark; the biggest victory in our nation’s footballing history since the 1966 World Cup Final.

This year marks 25 years since The FA approached Lightning Seeds’ Ian Broudie to write the official Euro ’96 track with comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner. An earworm of a track that summed up the heartache and hope of being an England fan, it became an instant number one, with England fans up and down the country singing it before, during, and after games. Sadly for England, a semi-final penalty shootout against Germany ended their hopes, but two years later Broudie, Baddiel and Skinner recorded a new version ‘Three Lions ’98’ for the 1998 World Cup, which also topped the charts.

In the years since its debut, the track has seen multiple releases and is the only song in existence to have become the UK number one four separate times with the same artists: two one-week stints in 1996, three straight weeks in 1998 for the remake, and again in 2018 during the World Cup held in Russia, where it made history in vaulting to number one from 24 in one week. Not just adored by England fans, ‘Three Lions’ has become a global footballing hit, with Germany even adopting it as their national football anthem.

The football banger has also hit some impressive milestones over the years. When England reached the 2018 World Cup semi-finals after knocking out Sweden, the track was streamed 1.3m times in a day, even surpassing Calvin Harris’ ‘One Kiss’. Fans also took to the song after another heartbreaking England exit from the tournament, with the track being streamed 9.7 million times following England’s semi-final defeat to Croatia. Since its release in 1996, ‘Three Lions’ has notched up over 1.2 million chart sales, including 39 million streams.

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