“In light of so much recent election horror, let’s do this, eh?” wrote instigator Darcie Shoenman Molina on Facebook. In 2011, Cocker told the Observer that he would have loved the track “to have been an international No 1, but radio play was quite difficult for that one”. A BBC spokesperson told the Guardian that they could not comment on whether this song will be played prior to the confirmation of this week’s chart placings. The Witch Is Dead from the Wizard of Oz to the No 2 spot in the wake of Margaret Thatcher’s death in 2013. Sheffield's post-punk explosion: synths, steel and skinheads Read moreIn September, Cocker said that Running the World “feels even more relevant now”.

Source: The Guardian December 16, 2019 17:03 UTC