Album: Hours (2005)
Charted: 21
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about the impact on the band's own communities in Wales during the miner strikes in the 1980s.
  • "History" was sampled on Lil Peep and Lil Tracy's 2017 emo-rap track "Horse Head."
  • "History" was the closing song of what was originally billed as Funeral for a Friend's farewell tour. When the band played their supposed final-ever show at London's O2 Forum Kentish Town on May 21, 2016, "History" was the last song performed, with frontman Matt Davies-Kreye telling the crowd beforehand that "dancing is optional, singing is essential and it's ok to cry." The split proved short-lived, however, as Funeral for a Friend reformed in 2019.

Comments: 3

  • Ben from Moon, United KingdomAccording to the band's concert in Portsmouth, this was one of Stevie Wonder's long-lost hits, and is a tribute to them (:
  • Jazz from Portsmouth, Englandwell at there gig they said this song was about a close friend?? listening to the lyrics on the first verse or two maybe it is bout a close friend they lost
  • Amina from Manchester, Englandthe band members were born in 1980?
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