Can You Feel the Force?

"Can You Feel the Force?"
Single by The Real Thing
from the album Can You Feel the Force?
B-side"Children of the Ghetto"
Released26 January 1979 (1979-01-26)
GenreDisco, soul
LabelPye Records
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Ken Gold
The Real Thing singles chronology
"Rainin' Through My Sunshine"
(1978) 		"Can You Feel the Force?"
(1979) 		"Boogie Down (Get Funky Now)"
(1979)

"Can You Feel the Force?" is a song by British soul group The Real Thing, released as a single on 26 January 1979.[1] It was written by band members Chris Amoo and his brother Eddie Amoo, and produced by Ken Gold for Tony Hall Productions and mastered at Sterling Sound. The song was the group's biggest disco hit, reaching number five in the UK Singles Chart and spending 11 weeks in the top 75,[2] and also charting in a number of other countries. In March 1979 it was certified silver by the BPI for shipments of 250,000 copies.[3]

In 1986 the song was remixed by Bob Mallett and charted again in the UK and Ireland.[2][4]

  1. ^ Discogs.com listing for the single; retrieved September 9, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference UKchart was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "BPI Awards – Certified Awards Search". BPI. Archived from the original on 9 September 2017. Retrieved 26 February 2018. Type "Can You Feel the Force" into the "Search BPI Awards" box and press "Enter".
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference Irishchart was invoked but never defined (see the help page).