Pete Shelley - 'Tour de France Theme' (Channel 4)

[@pch84]

Listening to this while watching any road race now is amazing.

[@jonaverillvision]

I wish this was remastered and rereleaesed

[@kevincockburn7805]

This is the tune of my youth watching the tour de France. bloody great

[@johnbyrne576]

Absolutely iconic song of my youth….all talking stopped when this started playing, I would race out afterwards and blast up the road on my BMX!!

[@hoppy303]

This will forever be the theme of the Tour

[@klangding]

That faint glissando at the end as it careens off the side of a mountain always sends shivers down my spine...

[@petermorris2090]

One of the greatest tunes ever!

[@artvandelay150]

Greatest sports title music ever

[@goodwood-rc4nx]

wish the family would allow someone to remaster this track maybe for charity i would pay no issue to have a high res version of this masterpiece

[@MR-it4ps]

Awesome tune..... takes me right back to 1987 TDF and beyond...... this needs to be remastered and included in the TDF today!

[@HammerLex77]

I’d bet my last French franc that the ending of this track is an intentional sample of the start of the nursery rhyme ‘Frère Jacques’. I know I always use to subliminally sing that at the end of the Channel 4 Tour de France ending credits.

[@simonpalling3215]

Learning something new today. Good tune from a clearly talented man. Buzzcocks great too.

[@garryfield5319]

great!!!

[@mobouge7944]

Good!!!!👌

[@wcr46]

Conjures up memories of Abdoujaparov sprinting to another finish

[@philipmiles7240]

Wish you could get this on Spotify, tune from my youth and one of the best TV sports themes. Got the Buzzcocks version which is excellent by the way👍🏼

[@keithcommins]

I’d pay good money to have this on Spotify or even on mp3. Impossible to find and kinda baffling how it was never released properly

[@chriscollicott5352]

I'm still hopeful this will be re-instated rather than the current ITV drivvle.

[@olivere5497]

I always thought it was a piece of music produced by the main company which dealt with the broadcasting/franchising of the tour de france globally, its cool C4 put that much effort into it.

[@psmiddx2096]

It's really the base of Buzzcock's "Give it to Me"

[@richardhillenglish3122]

Wow! Thanks for that info, just listened to Give it to me, amazing!

[@lewis72]

@@richardhillenglish3122 *Buzzcocks* kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJKsfqJ4iNOoesk Then Peter Shelley went on to do this, with Zip! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eoXZcol3lpaKrq8 and then peter Shelley on his own: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pZTPf5uPls-qpZY

[@drewsavage1610]

I must investigate this!

[@brianartillery]

It was never recorded by Buzzcocks, but by Pete Shelley, recording as 'ZIP'. The definitive, and rock hard version of 'Give It To Me', was as part of the 12" of 'Never Again', with an extended version of the 7" B-Side, '111'. Pete Shelley put out an electronic album, called 'Sky Yen', in 1980. That's astonishing, too. His solo albums, (which are all superb), 'Homosapien'; 'XL1', and 'Heaven And The Sea', are all worth your time. A bit later, he made an album with Buzzcocks' original frontman, and vocalist for the brilliant Magazine, Howard Devoto, with the title 'Buzzkunst'. Now that is a fine record.

[@davidmarsh3550]

​​@@brianartillery Buzzcocks later recorded a version for the 1996 album All Set

[@stjepan_8902]

So this is what ultimately defined the sound of Trent Reznor and NIN :D

[@will_hargreaves]

ITV should go back to this music for the TDF. So much better than the current music they use.

[@webm8]

Giro has started and not long to the TdF :)

[@jasonmullaley3234]

Reminds me of Harry halls before the top spec manufacturers came in