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The BBC invited Elbow to present ideas for the 2012 Olympic theme, on the strength of their 2008 song "One Day Like This", which had been used during the Beijing Olympics and televising of subsequent sporting events. [1] In November 2011 it was announced that the BBC had commissioned Elbow to composing the theme music. [2]
"One Day Like This" is the second single from English band Elbow's fourth studio album, The Seldom Seen Kid, released on 2 June 2008 [1] on two 7-inch vinyl records and one CD single. On 21 May 2009, the song won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.
The song opens with the line: I've been working on a cocktail, called grounds for divorce. Uncut magazine said it was "surely one of the best opening lines of any pop song in years" [1] and NME compared it to something James Bond might say "this is kind of glorious one-liner he’d mutter before taking the bad guys down and then smooching a lofty Eastern European countess."
On the same day, Elbow's YouTube channel posted a video of the band performing the song in the studio, directed by long-time collaborators The Soup Collective. The song belatedly debuted on the UK Singles Chart at number 183 on 9 March 2014. The first official single from the album was "New York Morning", released on 27 January 2014.
The band was first formed while its members were secondary school and opted for the name Elbow in 1997. [1] The band recorded a 5-track demo EP titled Noisebox, named after the studio where it was recorded. Four songs were later re-recorded for the deluxe edition of the debut album while a live-version was chosen for the fifth. [2]
A music download is the digital transfer of music via the Internet into a device capable of decoding and playing it, such as a personal computer, portable media player, MP3 player or smartphone. This term encompasses both legal downloads and downloads of copyrighted material without permission or legal payment.
The song first leaked online in October 2018. It continuously garnered attention on the Internet over the next three years. On February 2, 2022, Juice Wrld's estate uploaded the song to streaming services, surprising fans. The single was released alongside an animated music video and another song from Juice Wrld, "Go Hard 2.0". [1] [2]
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