Right Here, Right Now (Fatboy Slim song)

"Right Here, Right Now"
Single by Fatboy Slim
from the album You've Come a Long Way, Baby
B-side"Don't Forget Your Teeth"
Released19 April 1999 (1999-04-19)[1]
Length
  • 6:27 (album version)
  • 5:58 (single version)
  • 3:56 (radio edit)
LabelSkint
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Fatboy Slim
Fatboy Slim singles chronology
"Praise You"
(1999)
"Right Here, Right Now"
(1999)
"Build It Up – Tear It Down"
(1999)
Music video
"Right Here, Right Now" on YouTube

"Right Here, Right Now" is a song by British big beat musician Fatboy Slim, released on 19 April 1999 as the fourth single from his second studio album, You've Come a Long Way, Baby (1998). The song samples "Ashes, the Rain & I" by James Gang and an Angela Bassett quote from American science fiction thriller film Strange Days (1995).[2] "Right Here, Right Now" reached number two on the UK Singles Chart and became a top-40 hit in Australia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand, and the Walloon region of Belgium. It was voted by Mixmag readers as the 10th-greatest dance record of all time.[3]

  1. ^ "New Releases – For Week Starting 19 April, 1999: Singles" (PDF). Music Week. 17 April 1999. p. 27. Retrieved 19 July 2021.
  2. ^ "Film buffs are just noticing an iconic Angela Bassett line is sampled in a huge song | indy100".
  3. ^ What is the Greatest Dance Track of All Time? Mixmag (15 February 2013).