Three Lions
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| Single by Baddiel & Skinner & Lightning Seeds | ||||||||
| from the album The Beautiful Game – The Official Album of Euro '96 | ||||||||
| Released | 20 May 1996 8 June 1998 ("3 Lions '98") (see separate infobox below) 3 June 2002 5 June 2006 |
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CD, 7", cassette (1996) CD (2002) DualDisc (2006) |
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| Genre | Britpop | |||||||
| Label |
Epic (1996 / 2002) BMG (2006) |
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| Writer(s) |
Music: Ian Broudie Lyric: David Baddiel & Frank Skinner |
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| Producer(s) |
Ian Broudie Simon Rogers Dave Bascombe |
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| "3 Lions '98" | |
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| Single by Baddiel, Skinner & The Lightning Seeds | |
| Released | 8 June 1998 |
| Format | CD, cassette |
| Recorded | 1998 |
| Genre |
Alternative rock Britpop |
| Label | Epic |
| Writer(s) |
Music: Ian Broudie Lyrics: David Baddiel & Frank Skinner |
| Producer(s) |
Ian Broudie Simon Rogers Dave Bascombe |
| "Three Lions 2010" | |
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| Single by THE SQUAD | |
| from the album England The Album 2010 | |
| Released | 17 May 2010 |
| Recorded | 2010 |
| Genre | Britpop with opera and choir music |
| Label | EMI |
| Writer(s) |
Music: Ian Broudie Lyrics: David Baddiel & Frank Skinner |
"Three Lions" is a song released in 1996 as a single by the English band, The Lightning Seeds, to mark the England football team's participation in that year's European Championships, held in England. The music was written by the Lightning Seeds' Ian Broudie, with comedians David Baddiel and Frank Skinner - presenters of football-themed comedy show Fantasy Football League at the time - providing the lyrics.
The title comes from the emblem of the England football team, which is in turn derived from the Coat of Arms of England. This song is one of only three songs to top the British charts twice with different lyrics, the others being "Mambo No. 5" (in versions by Lou Bega and Bob the Builder) and "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (by Band Aid and Band Aid 30). It also regularly reappears in the UK singles chart around major football tournaments involving the England team.
In June 2014, this song came to attention again, as Morrisons was forced not to play this song anymore in its Scotland supermarkets, after receiving complaints from Scottish football fans.
The lyrics, unlike most football songs, spoke not of unbounded optimism for victory, but instead told of how, ever since 1966 and the one unequivocal success of the English football team, every tournament has ended in dashed hopes. However, the repeated failures have not dampened the feeling that England could again reach those heights ("Three lions on a shirt / Jules Rimet still gleaming / Thirty years of hurt / never stopped me dreaming").
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