“All Together Now” by The Farm

"All Together Now" was the second single from Spartacus, the Farm's 1991 debut album, though it first came out in November 1990, and its roots go back much further. Singer Peter Hooton wrote the words in his early twenties after reading about the Christmas truce of 1914, and the band first cut it as "No Man's Land" for a John Peel session in 1983. In 1990 Steve Grimes suggested setting it to the chord changes of Pachelbel's Canon, and Hooton wrote a chorus to fit.

Suggs produced it and trimmed it from six verses to three for radio, and what's left is a big, swaying, arms-around-your-mates anthem about peace breaking out in the trenches. Football clubs have sung it ever since, Sky Sports used it for its Football League coverage from 2004 to 2009, and Labour played it at rallies in 2017.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.