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"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
Single by The Proclaimers from the album Sunshine on Leith
Released	August 1988 (UK), March 2007 (UK Re-release), 1993 (US)
Format	7", Cassette, CD
Recorded	1988, 2007
Genre	Rock Folk Rock
Length	3:37 3:42 (2007 release)
Label	Chrysalis
Producer	Pete Wingfield
The Proclaimers singles chronology
"Make My Heart Fly" (1987) "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" (1988) "Sunshine on Leith" (1990)
Re-recorded cover
Image:2007 Cover for Comic Relief.jpg

"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" is a song written and performed by Scottish pop band The Proclaimers. It was released on their 1988 Sunshine on Leith album, and subsequently as a single. It has become one of their most popular songs, reaching the UK top 20 at #11 and No. 1 on the Australian ARIA Charts in 1989, plus, five years later, #3 in the Billboard Hot 100. The song has become a live staple at their concerts. The Proclaimers played it at Edinburgh 50,000 - The Final Push, the final concert of Live 8 at Murrayfield Stadium on 6 July 2005, to symbolise the conclusion of The Long Walk To Justice.

The song is popular in Ireland and Scotland, where, at Hampden Park, every time the national football team scores, the song is played and sung along to by Scotland fans. It is the unofficial anthem of Edinburgh's Hibernian F.C., the Proclaimers being fans of the team. Their song "Sunshine On Leith" is also played frequently at Easter Road, Hibernian's home ground.

"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" was featured on the soundtrack to the 1993 film Benny & Joon. As a result the music video features a young Johnny Depp, who starred in the film.

The song was also the signature melody for the Swedish TV-show, High Chaparall.

1. I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
2. Better Days
3. Teardrops

1. I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - New audio with special guests
2. I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - Original 1988 version
3. I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - CD-ROM video [new version with special guests]
4. Photo Gallery

• Down By Law, on their album Punkrockacademyfightsong.
• spunge on their covers album That Should Cover It!.
• Koopa, as a B-side on their single "No Trend".
• Toy Dolls, on their album One More Megabyte.
• The Belgian band Voice Male, on their albums That's Live and On Stage.
• Steven Curtis Chapman, on his album All About Love.
• Phish, on 12/30/97 at Madison Square Garden with Tom Marshall.
• The MacDonald Brothers, on The X Factor.
• Maxïmo Park, live on Jo Whiley's Live Lounge for BBC Radio 1.
• Mimikry, on their album Automatiskt (Swedish, title: 500 mil)
• Verbal Warning currently perform a punked-up version of this in their live set.

The Proclaimers re-recorded the song, with Peter Kay and Matt Lucas, the latter two in the guise of their characters Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin (from Phoenix Nights and Little Britain respectively). There is a slight change in the lyrics with the words "roll 500 miles" replacing "walk 500 miles". This is because the characters Brian Potter and Andy Pipkin are both in wheelchairs. This version was released as a charity single for Comic Relief on 19 March 2007.^[1] It reached #3 on the official UK Singles Chart on download sales alone, and one week later reached number one, where it remained for three weeks. It sold 126,000 copies in its first week making it the biggest selling number one of the year up to that point. Its sales were double that of the "official" Comic Relief single by Girls Aloud vs. Sugababes, and their cover of Aerosmith's Walk This Way.

The Proclaimers' original recording also re-entered the Top 40 following the success of the Comic Relief version.