Talk:Three Lions (song)

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A Dutch band called Hermes House Band in their 2004 album "Get Ready for Party" recorded a cover of the Three Lions with a different lyrics. This is the video of the song direction []--Nekko09 (talk) 04:23, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a difference between a team's official song and that of the tournament. The tournament song in 1996 was by Simply Red, but Three Lions was definitely the official song of the England team in '96. This can be verified by a simple look at its cover - not only does it state that it was the official England team song, but it uses the FA-trademarked "Three Lions" badge, which Baddiel/Skinner/etc wouldn't have been allowed to otherwise use (indeed, they couldn't use it for the cover of Three Lions '98, but the badge did appear on the official Ian McCulloch/Spice Girls record). Seb Patrick 15:51, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official Song? 

message: Is that really Motson? I always thought it was Jimmy Hill... Angmering 21:52, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: My memory may be failing me here — it's been ten years, after all! — but in the video aren't they watching the various pundits say these things on TV at the start? Could someone who's seen the video confirm whether it's Hill or Motson? (If indeed the video does run as I vaguely remember it). Angmering 19:54, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Since the very first time I heard it I've thought it was Des Lynam. --Ross UK 04:40, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "We'll go on getting bad results"

message: I know for a fact that this was played in Germany, i was in Munich when England defeated Ecuador, saw this being played by the offical fan fest band.
Myabe some mention of it in the aritcle
* it was very popular here in Germany last year. At our Uni cafeteria, it was played imediately on the completion of each German match, before the officual German team song. Thehalfone 18:29, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 2006

message: I's like to see a sentence explaining the line "Psycho screaming" in the '98 version.  KXL 18:39, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Psycho was the nickname of Stuart Pearce. DublinDilettante 08:50, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Who is Psycho? '98

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message: should some of the more famous parodys be mentioned in the article? The C of E (talk) 16:00, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If there are famous parodies, I see no reason why not. -moritheilTalk 22:59, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Parodies

message: This article Three Lions should be move to Three Lions (Song) as the term Three Lions is a more popular term for Lions passant Mr Taz (talk) 21:01, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, you should really have waited for a response before moving, as there are now lots of articles which are now on a redirect. I'm going to request it be placed back where it was and then see what people think, as it's just as easy to place a hatnote at the top. Bob talk 00:31, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not make a Three Lions disambiguation page, which could direct users here or to the other use of the term? -moritheilTalk 22:58, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

text: I'm not sure that's any help - why not just put a hat-note on the top of this article? I'll do it now, in fact. Bob talk 23:01, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose. Of course, the real issue is that Mr Taz claims another use of "Three Lions" is more important, which if true would mean we would have to consider which one should be on top and which one should be in the link.  But I don't have any means of judging that, so I think for now the hat-note seems like the most reasonable course of action. -moritheilTalk 05:23, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move Three Lions to Three Lions (Song) 

message: It was reported on the BBC's QI programme (Season I, episode 3), on which Frank Skinner was a guest, that the '3 lions' of the song (and England shirt) are not, in fact, lions at all, but leopards - in heraldic terms lions are quite different. Frank Skinner noted that "that would have caused him some scanning problems". Worth including?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.6.188.63 (talk) 17:57, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not lions at all 

message: how many copies were sold in the UK and germany ?
it was 6 times in the German top 100 and reached the top 20 i guess it has surpassed the 500,000 mark  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.247.241.2 (talk) 15:25, 15 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  SALES  

message: This article begins by saying that the song was by the Lightning Seeds, but was not the song by Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds? Vorbee (talk) 17:47, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, the credit is "Baddiel & Skinner and Lightning Seeds" on the original or "Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds" on most subsequent issues. Either way, Baddiel and Skinner are certainly credited. I do not know whether there's some cabal bent on not allowing this to be acknowledged in the lede. Sometimes Wikipedians get it into their heads that the lede absolutely must be made inaccurate; that may or may not be the case here. --Walnuts go kapow (talk) 22:35, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Vorbee and Walnuts, this has been changed to 'Baddiel, Skinner and the Lightning Seeds' in the introduction -- 12:15, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Baddiel and Skinner

message: The lyrics of the original song say: "But I still see that tackle by Moore / And when Lineker scored / Bobby belting the ball / And Nobby dancing". Can someone add sourced explanations of which players these are and what events are being referenced? The parallel references in "3 Lions '98" are explained but not the original lyrics. --Metropolitan90 (talk) 21:02, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, to what does the "thirty years of hurt" refer?  It can't mean since the England World Cup win in 1966, because they won - the hurt couldn't start until the first subsequent loss, in 1970.  But that would only be 26 years of hurt, maximum. So what is the "hurt" that started in 1966?  2.31.162.90 (talk) 11:45, 12 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: 1966 to 1996 when the song was released = 30 years.--Egghead06 (talk) 11:49, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

text: You could raise this with David Baddiel and Frank Skinner?--Egghead06 (talk) 17:05, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can the references be explained? 

message: Yesterday, Egghead06 removed a new paragraph, because it was "unsourced". No sources are given in the three preceding paragraphs, but that's OK apparently. Can Egghead06 explain the difference, please? Brevitate (talk) 16:06, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia claims require sources. Just because the article already has problems doesn't mean it's OK to add more problems. Popcornfud (talk) 16:22, 27 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of content 

message: A Christmas version was released today for the World Cup in Qatar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubRBLAHjkTo 82.11.206.6 (talk) 10:02, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  2022 Christmas version 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. The song has been demonstrated to not be the primary topic. (closed by non-admin page mover) Skarmory (talk • contribs) 22:38, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment: Malformed move request fixed; the move request template originally did not include the moving of the respective disambiguation page. Steel1943 (talk) 20:45, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 23 June 2023 

message: "Both the original version of "Three Lions" and the updated "Three Lions '98" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart, becoming one of only three songs to top the British charts more than once with lyric variants; the others are "Mambo No. 5" (in versions by Lou Bega and Bob the Builder) and "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (by Band Aid, Band Aid 20 and Band Aid 30)"
Are we sure these are the only ones? Btljs (talk) 16:28, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I’ve thought of another one: Going to Ibiza is the same song as Barbados by Typically Tropical. Btljs (talk) 12:55, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Songs to reach number one with different lyrics