Right Here, Right Now (Fatboy Slim song)

"Right Here, Right Now"
"Right Here, Right Now"
Single by Fatboy Slim
from the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby
B-side	"Don't Forget Your Teeth"
Released	19 April 1999
Genre	Big beat
Length	6:27 (album version); 5:58 (single version); 3:56 (radio edit);
Label	Skint
Songwriter(s)	Norman Cook; Dale Peters; Joe Walsh;
Producer(s)	Fatboy Slim
Fatboy Slim singles chronology
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).^[3] "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. The song's popularity was spread across Europe through viral use in advertisements by companies such as Adidas.^[4] It was voted by Mixmag readers as the 10th-greatest dance record of all time.^[5]

^ "New Releases – For Week Starting 19 April, 1999: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 17 April 1999. p. 27. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
^ Rolling Stone Staff (8 February 2024). "The 100 Greatest Jock Jams of All Time: Staff List". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 29 December 2024. A sweeping, near-symphonic big beat anthem with a relentless four-word refrain.
^ "Film buffs are just noticing an iconic Angela Bassett line is sampled in a huge song | indy100".
^ Shepherd, John; Horn, David; Laing, Dave; Oliver, Paul; Wicke, Peter (6 March 2003). Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 1: Media, Industry, Society. A&C Black. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-84714-473-7.
^ What is the Greatest Dance Track of All Time? Mixmag (15 February 2013).

[1] "New Releases – For Week Starting 19 April, 1999: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 17 April 1999. p. 27. Retrieved 19 July 2021.

[RS_Staff_2024-2] Rolling Stone Staff (8 February 2024). "The 100 Greatest Jock Jams of All Time: Staff List". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 29 December 2024. A sweeping, near-symphonic big beat anthem with a relentless four-word refrain.

[3] "Film buffs are just noticing an iconic Angela Bassett line is sampled in a huge song | indy100".

[Shepherd-4] Shepherd, John; Horn, David; Laing, Dave; Oliver, Paul; Wicke, Peter (6 March 2003). Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume 1: Media, Industry, Society. A&C Black. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-84714-473-7.

[5] What is the Greatest Dance Track of All Time? Mixmag (15 February 2013).

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Right Here, Right Now (Fatboy Slim song)

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