F--kin' in the Bushes

Album: Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (2000)
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Songfacts®:

  • Written by Noel Gallagher, this is the opening track from the band's fourth studio album.
  • This contains samples from Murray Lerner's 1995 film Message To Love: Isle Of Wight Festival, a documentary of the 1970 event.
  • This is featured in the 2000 crime comedy Snatch, directed by Guy Ritchie and starring Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Brad Pitt and Jason Statham.
  • The title of the album comes from scientist Sir Isaac Newton, in a letter to his colleague Robert Hooke, February 1676: "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." >>>
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    Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 3

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