Quote: "We should have recorded a song for a better team. It should have been the Italian song." Embrace guitarist RICHARD MCNAMARA of EMBRACE is not particularly proud of having recorded the English soccer World Cup anthem after England lost out to Portugal last month (JUL06).
Quote: "A Scottish journalist recently asked me, 'Aren't you going to get bottled off as soon as you play Glasgow?' I said, 'Why would someone pay GBP20 to go and see their favourite band and then bottle them off?' I think we're safe." Embrace frontman DANNY MCNAMARA rubbishes suggestions he will encounter angry Scotland soccer fans now his band have recorded the official England World Cup song, THE WORLD AT YOUR FEET.
Fact: Embrace frontman DANNY MCNAMARA has named Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow the people he would most like to be with when he dies. The COLDPLAY star helped resurrect Embrace's career when he penned hit track GRAVITY for the band.