"Suburban Knights" is the first single from British band Hard-Fi's second album Once Upon a Time in the West. The physical format of the single was released on 20 August 2007, the digital version was released on 6 August 2007. It reached #7 on 26 August 2007, becoming the band's most successful single in the UK Charts.

The song received its first airplay on Soccer AM on 19 May when the band appeared on the show. Only about 15 seconds of the intro of the song was played however. Later, the single received its first radio play on 20 June, featuring on Zane Lowe's Radio One show. The song was nominated for best track at the 2007 Q Awards.

In Peru, "Suburban Knights" reached #5, while the next single "Can't Get Along (Without You)" did even better in the same chart, hitting #1.

This song has been played on popular teen programmes Hollyoaks and Waterloo Road. This song was also featured on the Network Ten sports show Sports Tonight in Australia. "Suburban Knights" also features in the soundtrack of Turn 10's Xbox 360 racing game, Forza Motorsport 3.

It began as a rough demo that had already been created by the time Stars of CCTV had been released and is also one of the older tracks on the album Once Upon a Time in the West. Richard Archer says that it began as just the chorus and the backing vocals. The band started working on it while on tour and played it live a couple of times. "We never said it has to be the first single, we just felt like it was a nice bridge between the first and second albums" Archer tells the NME. Variations of the track were performed live, sounding slightly different from what became the final version.

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