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"Go" mania has gripped the planet as The Chemical Brothers’ 2015 track “Go” has smashed into the upper reaches of global charts, including up to No 7 in this week’s UK singles chart, millions of streams everywhere and No 1 on Shazam worldwide.
“Go” features in the new film Apex starring Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton, which is No. 1 in Netflix’s film chart after being viewed over 80 million times in just ten days. The song was personally chosen for Apex by actor Taron Egerton, who wrote to the band and Q-Tip requesting use of the song for one key scene. His letter said:
“I have loved your music since my early teens and have seen you perform live several times… my mind was blown by your incredible set featuring floating giant robots.
“I'm asking you to let us use Go for this scene...I feel like I can do something bloody weird and unnerving and disturbing... but I need The Chemical Brothers' help.”
The Grammy-nominated track originally appeared on the band’s Grammy nominated Number 1 album Born in the Echoes. Featuring a stunning vocal from New York rapper Q-Tip — his second collaboration with Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons following the 2005 Top 3 single “Galvanize” — “Go” has since been sampled and remixed countless times over the past decade.
“Go” has also become a staple of The Chemical Brothers’ live shows, serving as the opening track at gigs since 2017. Each time, it lands like an explosion of frenetic energy, setting the stage for everything that follows — as witnessed during the band’s set at 2019 Glastonbury Festival, a performance that’s been watched over a million times on YouTube.
The video for “Go” was directed by visionary filmmaker Michel Gondry, who has also collaborated with the band on “Let Forever Be”, “Star Guitar” and “Got to Keep On”.
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