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"Right Here Right Now"
Single by Fatboy Slim from the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Released	April 19, 1999
Format	CD
Genre	Big Beat
Length	6:27
Label	Atlantic Records
Producer	Fatboy Slim
Fatboy Slim singles chronology
"Praise You" (1999) "Right Here Right Now" (1999) "Build It Up - Tear It Down" (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.

• For Molson Canadian beer comercials in 2005
• As the Pittsburgh Steelers' introduction song in Super Bowl XL.
• As background music for a TV commercial for the New York Stock Exchange c. 2000.
• 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.
• Featured in the opening scenes of the first episode of the TV series Spaced.
• 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.
• The song was the theme song for CES 2007.
• The song was featured in Dance Dance Revolution SuperNova.
• The song was used heavily during various events to celebrate the centenary of Scouting, most notably the 21st World Scout Jamboree and the Live 07 concerts, the latter being held at London's O2 Arena.
• The song is used as the pre-match anthem for English Football League Championship side Colchester United F.C.
• A cover version of the song is used as the theme for the show "CW Now" on the CW Network

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• 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's line in the film Strange Days.
• Another song, Nick Drake's "Magic", has a similar sounding riff and is sometimes mistaken as the source sample, however "Ashes, the Rain and I" is the officially stated sample.

1. ^ http://www.tranzfusion.net/articles/shownews.asp?newsid=4566 (retrieved 23 August 2006)

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