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:''Not to be confused with the independent movie of the same name by the members of That Guy with the Glasses'' "Suburban Knights" is the first single from British band Hard-Fi's second album ''Once Upon a Time in the West''. The physical format of the single was released on 20 August 2007, the digital version was released on 6 August 2007.〔https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/suburban-knights-single/id261068684〕 It reached #7 on 26 August 2007, becoming the band's most successful single in the UK Charts. The song received its first airplay on ''Soccer AM'' on 19 May when the band appeared on the show. Only about 15 seconds of the intro of the song was played however. Later, the single received its first radio play on 20 June, featuring on Zane Lowe's Radio One show. The song was nominated for best track at the 2007 ''Q'' Awards. In Peru, "Suburban Knights" reached #5, while the next single "Can't Get Along (Without You)" did even better in the same chart, hitting #1. This song has been played on popular teen programmes ''Hollyoaks'' and ''Waterloo Road''. This song was also featured on the Network Ten sports show ''Sports Tonight'' in Australia. "Suburban Knights" also features in the soundtrack of Turn 10's Xbox 360 racing game, ''Forza Motorsport 3''. ==History== It began as a rough demo that had already been created by the time ''Stars of CCTV'' had been released and is also one of the older tracks on the album ''Once Upon a Time in the West''. Richard Archer says that it began as just the chorus and the backing vocals. The band started working on it while on tour and played it live a couple of times. "We never said it has to be the first single, we just felt like it was a nice bridge between the first and second albums" Archer tells the NME. Variations of the track were performed live, sounding slightly different from what became the final version. Archer describes it as being about various things and having your head in lots of places at once. It's about being felt left out and degraded, people looking down on others, journalists slagging off people from suburban areas and dreams being out of reach among other things such as having nothing to do and having no money. There's not much in suburban towns so you have to be creative. We've toured the world and have met many people much like ourselves, from suburban areas, we were always told to celebrate where we're from and fight back. Suburban Knights is just made to celebrate the amazing people who live in the real world. You have to be creative living in suburbia and we wanted to celebrate that.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=NME TV - Hard-Fi track by track album interview )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Suburban Knights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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