It was made available as a download from the Gorillaz website, but in a very low key way, with a number of white-label 12″ vinyl copies also distributed around. Albarn and Hall had previously spoken about collaborating together, however when Hall revealed that he had been taking singing lessons from a Middle-Eastern singer, it inspired Albarn to take the song in a different direction. Terry Hall appears on the song as a vocal harmony with Albarn for the song’s chorus. D12 added additional production to the song, before laying down their verses. Albarn had always wanted to experiment with Middle-Eastern music, and felt that this song would be perfect. The track came about after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York City had left D12 stranded in England Damon Albarn invited the band to his studio and played them an early demo of the track. The song was recorded by Gorillaz and D12 (sans Eminem) in Damon Albarn’s personal studio in West London. It was the fourth single to be lifted from the debut album, but rather unusually, it was issued after a non-album single had been released in December 2001:. Tomorrow Comes Today, after its low-key release in 2000, would be included on the debut album and would be re-released as a single in March 2002, when it reached #33. There have been five albums since, all of which have charted high in the charts, but without selling copious amounts – for instance, Humanz (2017) reached #2 in the albums chart, but sold only 100,000 copies. Greater success followed in 2005 when Feel Good Inc (featuring De La Soul) and Dare (featuring Shawn Ryder) went to #2 and #1 respectively, with parent album Demon Days selling 1.8 million copies. It would take only a further four months for the band/group/act to make the commercial breakthrough, with Clint Eastwood being a Top 5 single and the self-titled debut album going Top 3 in the UK, eventually selling almost a million copies.
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I still think of Gorillaz as being a relatively new addition to the music scene, so I’m terrified/horrified/gob-smacked that it has been a full twenty years. It was originally released as a four-track EP on 27 November 2000. So I bought it, and waited on it becoming a massive hit. So, I asked the guys in the shop to let me hear it. By pure chance, I was in a favourite record shop in Glasgow a couple of days later and amidst my browsing, I saw something which had a title that was awfully like the mystery track. Unusually, no information on the video came up at the end. But quite clearly, this was not anything by Blur. My ears immediately picked up on a great tune and what sounded awfully like the vocals of Damon Albarn. It must have been around 3am or something. One night back in late 2000, while suffering from insomnia, I caught a glimpse of a cartoon video of on MTV. Partly adapted and added to substantially from a previous blog posting back in August 2013:.
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