“The Globe” by Big Audio Dynamite

"The Globe" is the title track of Big Audio Dynamite's 1991 album, made while the English group was billing itself as Big Audio Dynamite II, and it went out as an American single on Columbia Records. It raids Mick Jones's own back pages, sampling "Should I Stay or Should I Go", the 1981 song he wrote in the Clash, and tosses "All Night Long (All Night)", Lionel Richie's single from 1983, into the sampladelic stew.

Jones produced it with engineer Andre Shapps and wrote it with bassist Gary Stonadge; Nick Hawkins adds guitar, Chris Kavanagh drums, all four sing, and guests Gobblebox and Sipho chip in. It hung around the Hot 100 for 10 weeks, peaking at 72 in March 1992, and Nic Hofmeyr and Ralph Ziman shot its video with the band performing at Los Angeles's Crossroads of the World tower.

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