“Stay Too Long” by Plan B

"Stay Too Long" was the first single from The Defamation of Strickland Banks, Plan B's second album, released on 8 January 2010 through 679 Artists and Atlantic. Plan B wrote it and Paul Epworth produced, with Mark "Top" Rankin engineering and mixing; behind him are Tom Wright-Goss on guitar, Eric Appapoulay on bass and Richard Cassell on drums, plus Marvin Cottrell, Jennifer Dawodu, Aleysha Gordon and Hannah Kemoh on backing vocals.

It has had a busy afterlife. Pendulum remixed it, their first remix in three years, and that version soundtracked the runway at the 2010 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show, went into Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, the video game, and into a trailer for The Sims 3: Pets. The song also turned up on Doctor Who Confidential and in The Inbetweeners Movie, and the BBC uses it as its tennis theme.

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