Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Admit it, you just sang those lines to yourself, didn’t you? It’s OK. I did, too, when I jotted them down. Such is the power of ...

The British collective responsible for the '90s hit "Tubthumping" posts a lengthy goodbye letter to fans: "Thirty years of being snotty, eclectic, funny, contrary and just plain weird. What a ...

Chumbawamba’s ”Tubthumping” has had a surprisingly enduring life since it first emerged in 1997, flooding the airwaves with its “I get knocked down, but I get up again” sing-along refrain. It became ...

When New Zealand’s populist Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters strode out to address a political convention in the city of Palmerston North in March, the sound of British punk band Chumbawamba’s ...

Why do populists so often use the work of artists who despise them? Because they don’t have any good songs of their own The beauty of writing a song that revolves around a universal idea is that ...

New Zealand’s deputy PM has said he “does not care” after being slammed by British band Chumbawamba for using their hit Tubthumping at a political rally. Winston Peters, leader of the right-wing New ...

British band Chumbawamba has asked New Zealand’s deputy prime minister Winston Peters to stop using their hit song Tubthumping at his rallies because the band members do not share his populist ideas.

In 1982, in the British town of Burnley, a bunch of former members of a band called Chimp Eats Banana formed an anarchist collective named Chumbawamba. They lived together in a squat in Leeds, and ...

New Zealand's deputy prime minister Winston Peters says he "does not care" about the row over using Chumbawamba hit Tubthumping at a political rally. The UK band had accused him of "hijacking" the ...

“I get knocked down, but I get up again/ You're never gonna keep me down/ I get knocked down, but I get up again/ You're never gonna keep me down.” Admit it, you just sang those lines to yourself, ...