The single shot straight in at Number 2 in the UK singles charts, just behind Adamski’s Killer, on 27 May. Singing for En-ger-land are Steve McMahon, Chris Waddle, Peter Beardsley, John Barnes and Des Walker.
Peter Hook leads the England squad through the recording the vocals to World In Motion at the Mill studio in Buckinghamshire on 25 March 1990. Talking to the NME at the time of the single’s release - almost ten years to the day since Joy Division singer Ian Curtis had tragically fied - New Order frontman Bernard Sumner said: “This should be the last straw for Joy Division fans.” The song also featured football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme, who specially re-recorded his classic line from the 1966 World Cup final: “Well some of the crowd are on the pitch… They think it’s all over… It is now!” In 1989 they were riding high with their fifth album Technique, a record that melded acid house with indie rock and their label Factory’s Manchester club The Hacienda was the coolest place in the world.
T heir 1983 single Blue Monday was an instant club classic and the biggest selling 12” of all time. New Order had developed their sound from the Joy Division days, moving into electronica and dancefloor beats after heading to New York in the early 1980s. Some of New Order (and Tony Wilson and Keith Allen) recording World In Motion with some of the 1990 England squad: Steve McMahon, Chris Waddle, Peter Beardsley, John Barnes and Des Walker. So how did the former members of this supremely bleak group end up rallying together a bunch of footballers, an anarchic comedian and producing this rabble-rousing tribute to the Beautiful Game? The band whose singer took his own life, forcing them to start all over again under a new name. The band that created some of the darkest music ever.
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