History

Album: Black Light (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • This song features British singer-songwriter and winner of the inaugural Pop Idol, Will Young. Groove Armada's Tom Findlay told Q magazine about it: "History was a song of Will Young's and it's probably about love. We added a backing track that looked backwards rather than forwards. It's very Bronski Beat Smalltown Boy. Basically it's the exact same chords if you want to get me into trouble for it [laughs]. It's just the way things are that it's hard to come up with something truly original."

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