The World Cup Years: 1999

Test Match Special

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🗓️ 21 May 2019

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Kevin Howells and Andy Zaltzman complete their look back on the four Cricket World Cups to have been held in the UK.

Alec Stewart, Gus Fraser and John Etheridge join Kevin and Andy to look back on a tournament perhaps best remembered for the fact that England were out before the official song (recorded by Dave Stewart from the Eurythmics).

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds Music Radio Podcasts
0:04.8	This is the TMS Podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live
0:10.0	Everybody on the way
0:16.2	Sun is up, the sky is red
0:20.2	No great clouds inside your head
0:23.6	Dave Stewart, now let's be honest about it
0:25.8	Dave Stewart, he knows what he's doing when it comes to music
0:28.2	We all love the uRivmics, especially if we were there at the time
0:31.4	But that's the official cricket World Cup song of 1999
0:35.4	Released the day after England already had been eliminated from the competition
0:41.0	Oh dear
0:42.0	Alex Stewart and Gus Fraser of England up on their feet dancing along
0:45.0	And pleased to see that leading them all
0:47.0	Is Andy Zoltzmann, Andy?
0:48.6	Hello
0:49.4	Tears in your eyes almost it seems
0:51.0	It's a sheer enjoyment of that song
0:53.4	It's just glorious, it's everything that cricket is about
0:57.0	Particularly the Red Skies
0:58.6	Indeed and John Etheridge, a man who knows his pop music
1:01.6	John, would you like to give your marks out of ten for that one?
1:04.2	Right, remember the video of that song?
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