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Hole-In-One! BLACK GRAPE Released Triumphant Single ‘IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER’ 25 Years Ago

Top singles from the past…

25 July 2020

Band: Black Grape (Greater Manchester, UK)
Who: Members of Happy Mondays (Shaun Ryder and Bez)
and Ruthless Rap Assassins
Active: 1993–1998, 2010, 2015
Single: In The Name Of The Father
Written by: Danny Saber and Shaun Ryder
B-sides: Land Of 1000 Karma Sutra Babes
and In The Name Of The Father (Choppers Mix)

Released: 25 July 1995 – 25 years ago today
Score: #8 in the UK
Album: It’s Great When You’re Straight…Yeah – debut LP

C’mon Shaun…

BLACK GRAPE: Facebook

Weekly series of five rolling ripsnorters to go completely bananas to this summer…

Let’s go nuts again! Here’s highly explosive stuff to party your head off this week…

1. ‘The Creeps’ by LAURA IMBRUGLIA
(Single 2019)

2. ‘In The Name Of The Father’ by BLACK GRAPE
(From album: It’s Great When You’re Straight… Yeah – 1995)

3. ‘Hysteria’ by MUSE
(From album: Absolution – 2004)

4. ‘Pure Morning’ by PLACEBO
(From album: Without You I’m Nothing – 1998)

5. ‘White Male Carnivore’ by YAK
(From album: ‘Pursuit Of Momentary Happiness‘ – 2019)

All Summer Bangers so far
collected here on Spotify…