I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
1988 ( UK ) 1993 ( United States)
I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles) is the title of a song of the Scottish band The Proclaimers. It was released in 1988 on the album Sunshine on Leith.
- 4.1 chart positions (1993 )
- 4.2 chart positions (2007)
Formation
According to rumors, this song by Amy Austin was inspired, which was a childhood friend, she lived in Leith near the brothers.
Trivia
1993 I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles) was used as the soundtrack to the film Benny and Joon. The recordings played on the popular film helped I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles) popular in the United States to make and thus allowed the first international rise in the charts. It is often claimed that this song was a 1990 hit, which is due to the great boom of that time.
The song is very popular in Scotland. Each time the Scottish national football team scores, it is played and sung by the fans. This also happens in the Scottish Rugby Union Team when they achieved at Murrayfield Stadium a point. The Scottish darts player Robert Thornton uses the song as well as run music in tournaments.
The Proclaimers played it on 6 July 2005 at Edinburgh 50,000 - The Final Push at Murrayfield Stadium as a sign of the conclusion of The Long Walk To Justice.
2006 was shown I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles) as cutaway gag in the episode " You May Now Kiss the ... Uh ... Guy Who Receives " of Season 4 of Family Guy. The song was also used as the theme song for the Swedish television show High Chaparral. I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles) was repeatedly played in the flashbacks from 1994 to 2007 the episode " Arrivederci, Fiero " of How I Met Your Mother from the cassette tape as the tape cassette in the player of the Pontiac Fiero of Marshall Eriksen stuck has remained. It was played again in the episode " Dual Citizenship " as the roadtrip music for Ted and Marshall. It was also played in the credits of the British comedy Burke & Hare.
On 11 September 2010, graduated from in 1988 to 50th place of the worst songs of all time (100 Worst Songs Ever ) Matthew Wilkening of AOL Radio, the original version.
The song was also very popular in Spain in the late 1990s thanks to television advertising. It was the reference song of the television advertising of Retevisión (today ONO) it was one of the first telecommunications company in Spain, after the liberalization of the sector in 1997., The first television commercials were shown with the original voice, later the text was translated into Spanish and to the company personalized.
The cover version by Steven Curtis Chapman was played as a wake up call to the International Space Station and on the 12th day of flying on the STS -130 on February 18, 2010 by NASA.
2011 plays Proclaimer the song in the Scottish film "Rock in the Park", which was during the annual rock festivals in Edinburgh, which actually " T in the Park " is recorded. 2012, the song was repeatedly The wedding of our thickest friend in the film - played Bachelorette. It also appeared in the movie and in the credits of British feature film Angels ' Share - A sip for the angels.
Title list
Original 1988 version
From the Album: Sunshine On Leith
Re-release 2007
From the Album: The Best Of The Proclaimers
Charts
I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles) debuted in the British singles charts in 11th place in the year 1988. According to a major film success in which I'm Gonna Be ( 500 Miles ) was used as a soundtrack, the song rose in 1993 first time in the international charts. The re-released version of the 2007 debuted in the UK at number 26 and on the Billboard Hot 100 chart euro it debuted at number 7