2006-11-25 06:56:14 · 31 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
craig and charlie reid AKA the proclaimers
2006-11-25 07:06:26 · answer #1 · answered by jellylegs1 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
i'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" is a music written and finished with the aid of Scottish pop band The Proclaimers. It substitute into released on their 1988 Sunshine on Leith album, and as a result as a single. It has substitute into one in all their maximum nicely-known songs, accomplishing the united kingdom appropriate 20 at #11 and No. one million on the Australian ARIA Charts in 1989, plus, 5 years later, #3 interior the Billboard warm one hundred. The music has substitute right into a stay staple at their stay shows. The Proclaimers performed it at Edinburgh 50,000 - the fantastic Push, the fantastic stay overall performance of stay 8 at Murrayfield Stadium on 6 July 2005, to symbolise the tip of The long walk To Justice.
2016-10-13 02:27:01 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Proclaimers, wrote and sang the original 500 miles.
2006-11-25 07:00:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Proclaimers
2006-11-25 06:57:59 · answer #4 · answered by Emma :) 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Proclaimers
2006-11-25 07:05:31 · answer #5 · answered by MrMan 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Proclaimers
2006-11-25 06:59:27 · answer #6 · answered by Jumble 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'll do what everybody else does and pretend I haven't seen the three dozen posts that already answer this question, just so people know that I know the answer too.
It's the Proclaimers. Do I get 10 points for being the first to answer?
2006-11-25 07:07:54 · answer #7 · answered by Billy 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Proclaimers are a Scottish band composed of identical twins Charlie and Craig Reid. They are best known for their songs "Letter from America" and "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" which became the theme song to the film Benny & Joon (1993), and to the charity event the Terry Fox Run, as well as a Labatt's Blue commercial.
Formed in 1983, the Auchtermuchty pair leapt to public attention after a January 1987 appearance on UK popular music programme "The Tube" on Channel Four; "Letter From America" peaked at number 3 in the UK singles chart, while the album This is the Story went gold. The follow-up album Sunshine on Leith featured "I'm Gonna Be..." and "I'm on My Way"
The brothers are also famous fans of Edinburgh based football club Hibernian F.C.. "Sunshine on Leith" is played at every home match and the refrain from "I'm Gonna Be..." is played when Hibernian score. They are also well known as supporters of Scottish independence and have at various stages of their lives been activists for the Scottish National Party. Many of their songs reflect their political views, such as "Letter From America" and "Cap in Hand".
Proclaimers appearance on Family Guy"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" and "I'm On My Way" were both major chart hits in Australia so much so that the band very successfully toured the major cities of Australia in 1989. They were supported on the Sydney and Canberra legs of that tour by indie rock band The Mexican Spitfires. Helped no doubt by their inclusion on the Shrek soundtrack, The Proclaimers have remained popular in Australia (with all ages) with "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" and "I'm On My Way" regularly played on Australian radio and at suburban parties and especially RSL clubs.
In 1994, their cover of "Get Ready" featured in the soundtrack for the hit film Dumb and Dumber.
In 2001, The Proclaimers were subject to renewed interest through inclusion of "I'm On My Way" on the soundtrack of the animated hit film Shrek. In 2003, the pair were performing the same track on Australian variety show Rove Live, when they were "blown up." Indeed, in an edition of the same program a year or so earlier, they performed "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", where a piano was "dropped" on top of them.
In 2005, they were the opening act at Edinburgh 50,000 - The Final Push, the final concert of Live8 at Murrayfield Stadium on July 6, 2005. They played "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" to symbolise the conclusion of The Long Walk To Justice.
On April 30, 2006, The Proclaimers appeared on the hit cartoon show Family Guy, due to the show's creator Seth MacFarlane being a fan. They appeared in episode "You May Now Kiss The...Uh...Guy Who Receives", where Stewie Griffin says Brian's homosexual cousin will fit in the Griffin family as badly as Peter fit in the Proclaimers, as a cutaway shows him fighting over who sings a lyric of "I'm Gonna Be...".
As of May 2006 "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" had remained in the iTunes download chart since December 2004. The 1988 album "Sunshine on Leith" sold over 25,000 copies last year.
On May 16, 2006 the twins announced their participation in a campaign to free a fellow Scot, Kenny Richey from his death row sentence in Ohio, USA, including them playing at a charity concert.
On July 9, 2006, The Proclaimers played the Main Stage at T In The Park.
On September 17, 2006 it was announced that a jukebox musical featuring the music of the Proclaimers was being prepared and set to debut in April 2007.
2006-11-25 07:38:24 · answer #8 · answered by stratmanreturns 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Proclaimers, from Auchtermuchty in Fife.
They were twins!
2006-11-25 10:00:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
the Proclaimers
2006-11-25 09:13:42 · answer #10 · answered by thunderchild67 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The band are called the Proclaimers. They are the Reid brothers and one of them is called Craig but I can't remember what the other one is called.
2006-11-25 07:09:04 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋