| "Steve McQueen" | ||||
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| Single by The Automatic | ||||
| from the album This Is A Fix | ||||
| B-side | "Big Ideas", "In This World", "Young Entrepreneurs" | |||
| Released | 18 August 2008 | |||
| Recorded | Sage and Sound Recording Studio, West Hollywood & Warwick Hall, Cardiff | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, post-punk revival | |||
| Length | 3:44 | |||
| Label | Polydor, B-Unique | |||
| Songwriter(s) | James Frost Iwan Griffiths Robin Hawkins Alex Pennie | |||
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&sq=Google&lang=en&file=File:The_Automatic_Steve_McQueen_Picture_Disc.jpg) 7" picture disc | ||||
"Steve McQueen" is the first and ultimately only single from Welsh rock band The Automatic's second album This Is A Fix. It is their fifth single overall. The track began radio and video play as of 7 July 2008 and was released on 18 August 2008.[1]
The track premiered on the 2007 NME Indie Rock Tour, along with "Revolution" – which later would be titled "Secret Police", and was originally recorded over the final weeks of 2006 with original member of The Automatic – Alex Pennie, penned to be released in April 2007, the single was for unknown reasons scrapped until 2008 when it was re-recorded with Paul Mullen as a member of the band.[2]
- ^ "Rocklouder catches up with The Automatic to talk all about the new album, on the last night of their first tour with new boy Paul Mullen". Rocklouder (Phillip May). 29 April 2008. Retrieved 3 May 2008.
- ^ The Automatic interview designermagazine.tripod.com, December 2006