“Walkaway” by Cast

Cast released "Walkaway" in March 1996, the fourth single from their 1995 debut All Change, and it gave the Liverpool Britpop band fronted by former La's bassist John Power a number-nine hit in the UK. Power has described it as a song about the point where you've given a place or a situation everything, and staying on would only cheat yourself. Leaving the La's carried its own sadness, he admits, but he doesn't believe the song was about him; once other people hear it, he's said, it grows bigger than his story.

And they hear it hard. He often sees fans in tears, or snogging, when it plays, and people have told him they realised they had to walk out of a relationship after hearing it. The BBC chose it to roll over the closing footage of its coverage of England's Euro 1996 semi-final.

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