Saturday 15 May 2021

The Farm

The Farm is an English collective from Liverpool. Members include: Steven Levy, George Maher, Keith Mullin, Roy Boulter, Steve Grimes, Peter Hooton, Ben Leach, Phillip Strongman, Anthony Evans, Andy McVann, and John Melvin. The group most popular releases cross over late-80s dance music and classic pop/rock stylings. They are best known for "Groovy Train" and "All together now", which reached the top 20 on the US alternative/modern rock charts as well the top 20 in the UK. They also were featured on the song "Sinful!" with Pete Wylie and covered Human League's "Don't you want me."

90 Hits (Discography):
Date	   UK	Song
Sep 1990    6	Groovy Train
Dec 1990    4	All Together Now
Apr 1991   28	Sinful! (Scary Jiggin' With Doctor Love) (credited as Pete Wylie and The Farm)
May 1991   36	Don't Let Me Down
Oct 1992   18	Don't You Want Me
Jan 1993   35	Love See No Colour
Aug 1994   31	Mind

What happened next?
"Altogether now" has been popular over the years in expressing and promoting unity (after all the the lyrics were written about the Christmas Day Truce (1914) in the first World War that The Farm released it again in 2004 to promote the England football team's campaign in the Euro 2004 championships and it made the UK Top 5. It was covered by Everton FC for the FA Cup Final in 1995 and Goleo with Atomic Kitten in 2006 for the World Cup 2006. In 2018, Carl Hunter directed the feature film "Sometimes Always Never", which was written by Frank Cottrell Boyce and starred Bill Nighy, Sam Riley, Alice Lowe, Jenny Agutter and Tim McInnerny. The film was produced by members of group.

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