Between and , the song was used extensively in an advertising campaign by Western Australian Tourism Commission Tourism WA promoting the State both nationally and internationally. In and , while South Sydney's NRL team was sponsored by Real Insurance , this song was used as the theme song when they ran on the field.
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More recently in , Australian public television broadcaster ABC has used part of the Morris "The Real Thing" to promote its television news services. Midnight Oil covered and released a version of the song from their album The Real Thing in From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Archived from the original on Australia in the Psychedelic Era Wakefield Press p.
Australasian Music and Popular Culture — Archived from the original on 7 March Retrieved 7 December Retrieved 24 August Australian Football Association of North America. Archived from the original PDF on Archived from the original on June 5, Retrieved from " https: Articles with hAudio microformats All accuracy disputes Articles with disputed statements from July Released on 14 May , the song was picked up immediately by BBC Radio One and gradually crept up the charts during that scorching, record-breaking summer, selling some 30, copies per day.
It remained at the summit for three solid weeks and was the first number one hit for an all-black UK group.
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You To Me Are Everything has subsequently been recognised as the 69 th most played record of all-time in Great Britain, and is listed by the Guinness Book of Hit Singles as one of the top songs of the millennium. The follow-up song, again written by Gold and Denne, was nearly as successful. Can't Get By Without You was released on 27 August and reached number two in the UK charts, remaining in the top forty for 10 continuous weeks.
On the strength of their second big hit single, the band released their self-titled debut album in November , produced by Jerome Rimson, later to be a member of short-lived US band Atomic Man. The dance track became a smash with clubbers in Ibiza, and across Europe, eventually reaching 9 in the UK charts.
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The collection of 10 self-penned songs was indeed ambitious, with the lyrics touching on many social issues facing the working class black community at that time. Pye Records threw all their weight behind an extensive marketing campaign to promote the LP. The trio of Liverpool 8 , Children of the Ghetto and Stanhope Street were light years ahead of their time, and totally unique in British music, being the first home-grown soul music to properly address the experience of black people in the UK.
Music magazine, Black Echoes reviewed the album in July and heaped praise on the songs. The band also made an energetic appearance in the movie performing the track. A few months later, in January , came Can You Feel the Force , penned by the Amoo Brothers, and the song that propelled them back into the top 5 all across Europe.
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The band considered this to be one of the greatest moments of their career, and a song which they are still immensely proud of. Sadly the collaboration was not to be a happy one.
The song packed dancefloors across the UK. The s were a time of mixed fortunes for the band.
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The group returned to working with David Essex, performing backing for his hit Me and My Girl Nightclubbing and accompanying him on his controversial tour of South Africa, which, in the era of apartheid, they now consider one of the very few regrets of their entire career. He died nine years later, aged just For 26 years the group continued as a trio — Eddy, Chris and Dave — performing live across the world to their incredibly loyal fan-base, which sustained them musically and creatively. Today, The Real Thing are still in enormous demand; their touring shows complete with a live five-piece band still entertain audiences almost every week of the year.
As recently as October The Real Thing travelled to Australia for their first ever tour Down Under, wowing theatres with their legendary energetic shows. Sadly, in February , Eddy Amoo passed away at the age of