The aptly named Three Lions (It's Coming Home For Christmas) is said to have been inspired by England winning the UEFA Women's Euros back in July
David Baddiel, Frank Skinner and The Lightening Seeds have re-recorded their football anthem Three Lions, with festive lyrics, ahead of the World Cup.back in July.
"At last it's between me and Mariah Carey for who really is the voice of Christmas," comedian David Baddiel said. "We just had to do it. Christmas World Cup songs are not like buses. If we'd let this opportunity pull away, it would have been a very long wait for the next one," Frank Skinner added. The original tune was recorded more than 25 years ago ahead of England hosting the 1996 Euros tournament. An updated version then came out to mark the 1998Three Lions remains the only song to have reached the UK number one spot on four separate occasions with the same artists, the most recent during the 2018 World Cup where it made chart history by moving up from number 24 to number one in a week.
During the 2020 Euros, the tune missed out on the number one spot but spent four weeks in the top 10 and during the final day of the tournament - and had more than three million streams on Spotify.
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