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Brands & Merch
John Barnes Mars rap unveiled
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 24 May 2010
The reworking of John Barnes’ rap from New Order’s seminal football song ‘World In Motion’ is out. As previously reported, the former footballer’s contribution to the 1990 official England team song re-appears in a pre-World Cup TV ad to flog Mars bars.
An older Barnes plus competition winners appear in the ad, which looks a little like the low-rent pop promo that accompanied the original song. The main difference being that Barnes seems to have been eating a fair few Mars bars in the twenty years since the original music vid was made.
The original rap: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnUh5LlrPZ4
The new Mars-flogging rap: www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2010/may/21/world-cup-john-barnes-rap
