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She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy

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Released
  
2000

Label
  
EMI

Genre
  
Alternative rock, pop

Writer(s)
  
Chumbawamba

Recorded
  
2000 at Woodlands Studio, Castleford, UK

Producer(s)
  
Chumbawamba & Neil Ferguson

"She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy" is the only single from Chumbawamba's album WYSIWYG.

Contents

A version by former Eurovision Song Contest entrants, and fellow West Yorkshire band Black Lace was also recorded in response to UK's BBC Radio 1 declining to play the original "too pop" version. The Black Lace version can be streamed here.

Track listings

US CD single (Republic, 2000)

  1. "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy (Radio Edit)"
  2. "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy (Album Version)"

European CD single (EMI, 2000)

  1. "She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy (Single Edit)"
  2. "Just a Form of Music"
  3. "Lest We Forget" (featuring John Jones from Oysterband on vocal)
  4. "Passenger List for Doomed Flight #1721"

Music video

A music video was released to promote the single. It can be seen here.

"Passenger List"

The B-side track "Passenger List for Doomed Flight #1721" can be downloaded for free from the band's website here. The song lyrics consist of a list of the names of many politicians, musicians and other public figures that have drawn Chumbawamba's ire:

  • Bill Gates, Microsoft founder
  • Richard Branson, Virgin Group founder
  • Jack Straw, British Member of Parliament
  • Billy Graham, US televangelist
  • Gerhard Schröder, German Chancellor
  • Tony Blair, British Prime Minister
  • Boris Yeltsin, Russian President
  • Mick Hucknall, Simply Red singer
  • Tipper Gore, US Parents Music Resource Center co-founder
  • Ian Paisley, Northern Ireland unionist leader
  • Pauline Hanson, Right-wing Australian politician
  • Courtney Love, American musician
  • Garry Bushell, English Music critic
  • Paul Condon, London Metropolitan Police commissioner
  • Ally McBeal, US TV show character
  • Jean-Marie Le Pen, French right-wing National Front founder
  • Janet Reno, US Attorney General
  • Bill Clinton, US President
  • Albert F. Sabo, judge for Mumia Abu-Jamal's trial
  • Bono, of U2
  • Howard Stern, US Shock jock
  • General Augusto Pinochet, Chilean dictator
  • Nicky Wire, Manic Street Preachers' lyricist and bassist
  • Rupert Murdoch, International media mogul
  • References

    She's Got All the Friends That Money Can Buy Wikipedia