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"Things Can Only Get Better" is a song by Northern Irish musical group D:Ream. The Labour Party notably used it as a theme during the party's campaign in 1997. The song took several months to reach the top of the UK Singles Chart. Originally a club hit, pop success took much longer for the song – initially, it reached only #24 on the chart in January 1993.
Band member Al Mackenzie left later that year, and remaining member Peter Cunnah took the band in a more pop friendly direction. "Things Can Only Get Better" was remixed and became a bigger hit, spending four weeks at number one in January 1994.
In 1997, the track was adopted by the UK Labour Party, as their theme for the General Election (the title claiming that things "cannot get worse"), as Labour's campaign was that the United Kingdom was in a dire state, after eighteen years of Tory government under first Margaret Thatcher and then John Major, and the Labour Party said they could fix the problems of the country.
On the back of this use it returned to the chart, reaching #19 in May 1997, when Labour returned to power with Tony Blair as Prime Minister, replacing John Major's Conservatives as the party in government, with one of the biggest landslides in British political history.
John O'Farrell used the song title as the title of his book about Labour's 18 years in opposition. Later, lead singer Peter Cunnah admitted mixed feelings about the use of the song as part of the election campaign.
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"Things Can Only Get Better" is a song by Northern Irish musical group D:Ream. The Labour Party notably used it as a theme during the party's campaign in 1997. The song took several months to reach the top of the UK Singles Chart. Originally a club hit, pop success took much longer for the song – initially, it reached only #24 on the chart in January 1993.
Band member Al Mackenzie left later that year, and remaining member Peter Cunnah took the band in a more pop friendly direction. "Things Can Only Get Better" was remixed and became a bigger hit, spending four weeks at number one in January 1994.
In 1997, the track was adopted by the UK Labour Party, as their theme for the General Election (the title claiming that things "cannot get worse"), as Labour's campaign was that the United Kingdom was in a dire state, after eighteen years of Tory government under first Margaret Thatcher and then John Major, and the Labour Party said they could fix the problems of the country.
On the back of this use it returned to the chart, reaching #19 in May 1997, when Labour returned to power with Tony Blair as Prime Minister, replacing John Major's Conservatives as the party in government, with one of the biggest landslides in British political history.
John O'Farrell used the song title as the title of his book about Labour's 18 years in opposition. Later, lead singer Peter Cunnah admitted mixed feelings about the use of the song as part of the election campaign.
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