Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Admit it, you just sang those lines to yourself, didn’t you? It’s OK. I did, too, when I jotted them down. Such is the power of ...
British band Chumbawamba has asked New Zealand’s deputy prime minister Winston Peters to stop using their hit song Tubthumping at his rallies because the band members do not share his populist ideas.
When New Zealand’s populist Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters strode out to address a political convention in the city of Palmerston North in March, the sound of British punk band Chumbawamba’s ...
The hit song is by a British band.
In 1982, in the British town of Burnley, a bunch of former members of a band called Chimp Eats Banana formed an anarchist collective named Chumbawamba. They lived together in a squat in Leeds, and ...
Chumbawamba’s ”Tubthumping” has had a surprisingly enduring life since it first emerged in 1997, flooding the airwaves with its “I get knocked down, but I get up again” sing-along refrain. It became ...
No, that's not a mistake in the headline. This really is a video of They Might Be Giants performing the 1997 Chumbawamba hit, "Tubthumping." And somehow finding a way to make the song -- admittedly, a ...
“I get knocked down, but I get up again/ You're never gonna keep me down/ I get knocked down, but I get up again/ You're never gonna keep me down.” Admit it, you just sang those lines to yourself, ...
As well as an energetic composition that might whip up fervor in a crowd, the lyrics of “tubthumping” (a British slang word for vociferous political protesting) have clearly struck a chord with those ...
In 1982, in the British town of Burnley, a bunch of former members of a band called Chimp Eats Banana formed an anarchist collective named Chumbawamba. They lived together in a squat in Leeds, and ...