John Barnes has revealed the audio clips from 1990, showing Paul \u2018Gazza\u2019 Gascoigne and Peter Beardsley attempting his iconic rap for \u2018World in Motion\u2019.<\/p>\n
The England legend played the clips during a recent interview on The Chris Moyles Show on Radio X, looking back at how he recorded a section of the New Order<\/a> song ahead of the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy.<\/p>\n That song became New Order\u2019s only number-one single on the UK Singles Chart, and Barnes won the opportunity to rap on the track after a competition with other England players, including Chris Waddle, Paul Gascoigne, and Peter Beardsley.<\/p>\n Looking back at his feature on the song, Barnes told Moyles that it was between him and five other players, who were each battling it out to provide the rap section, and revealed that he still has the audition entries from Gascoigne and Beardsley on his phone.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat happened was only six of us turned up to do the rap,\u201d he explained. \u201cI can give you an exclusive of some people doing the rap live in 1990 on my phone. I can play it there if you\u2019d like!\u201d<\/p>\n Barnes went on to share that it was originally \u201cnot supposed to be a rap, because New Order are not a rap group\u201d, but when they realised that only six players turned up to contribute, they decided to change course.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the end of the session when the song was finished, and there\u2019s only six of us who\u2019ve turned up to do it, Keith Allen [co-writer] went, \u2018Well, why don\u2019t we just put a rap in it?\u2019,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd Bernie Sumner and Peter Hook \u2013 they were from New Order \u2013 said, \u2018Well, we\u2019re not a rap group. So, you know\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n \u201cAnd he goes, \u2018Oh, it\u2019d be great!\u2019 The song was finished. And so, he just wrote it there and then, and we had to have a rap off.\u201d<\/p>\n As for who he was up against, Barnes shared: \u201cIt was between me, Gazza, Peter Bearsley, Des Walker, Steve McMahon, Chris Waddle. We were the only six who turned up; the rest of the lads weren\u2019t even there. Because we didn\u2019t know it was going to be a song with New Order.<\/p>\n \u201cWe thought it was just going to be a \u2018Here we go, arms around each other.\u2019 So, the players didn\u2019t turn up,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe all had a go at the rap. It was between me and Des Walker\u2026 obviously I did it.\u201d<\/p>\n He then went on to play Gascoigne\u2019s attempt at the rap, saying that \u201cGazza\u2019s not bad\u201d, before saying that it is Peter Beardsley\u2019s attempt that is \u201cthe one you want to hear\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cPeter\u2019s a good friend of mine. Peter knows I\u2019ve been doing this for years, so Peter won\u2019t be offended,\u201d he said, playing that clip.<\/p>\n He also added that he got the audio after meeting the sound engineer who worked on the track in Leicester around eight years ago, who offered to send over the clips. Check out that section of the interview above, or tune in to the full thing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 2026 FIFA World Cup begins next Thursday (June 11), and the opening match will see co-hosts Mexico vs South Africa go head to head at Mexico City\u2019s Estadio Azteca.<\/p>\n When \u2018World In Motion\u2019 was first released, NME asked Barnes how excited he was to be collaborating on a football song, to which he responded: \u201cIf I thought it was going to be the same as the usual crap, why bother? But this is alright.\u201d<\/p>\n Barnes\u2019 rap was written by the man himself and performed \u2013 legend has it \u2013 in one take. Check out more facts about the song here<\/a>.<\/p>\n In other World Cup news, Baddiel, Skinner & Lightning Seeds have announced a 30th anniversary re-release of \u2018Three Lions\u2019<\/a>, as England head into another World Cup this summer.<\/p>\n Belle & Sebastian<\/a> have also shared a buoyant 2026 Scotland World Cup anthem \u2018It Only Takes One Lion\u2019, and frontman Stuart Murdoch told NME about his hopes for the team<\/a>.<\/p>\n When asked about the mood in Scotland since they qualified, the singer said: \u201cIt\u2019s funny. I\u2019ve noticed this everywhere: with the World Cup there\u2019s a mixture of cynicism and anticipation.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen the actual tournament starts, everyone will get excited about it. Because of FIFA, the peace prize, the ticket prices, people seem quite down about it. I found that in Mexico. They were quite fed up with the general hype about it. I\u2019m in the States just now and you shouldn\u2019t believe all the hype: people are people. The States are just as \u2018great\u2019 as ever. We love coming here, we love the cities. The general sense of North American optimism will make for a good tournament.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWith Scotland though, people will definitely be excited about it. You have to understand, it\u2019s been 30 years since Scotland qualified so I think everybody and their dog has written a song for the team.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John Barnes has revealed the audio clips from 1990, showing Paul \u2018Gazza\u2019 Gascoigne and Peter Beardsley attempting his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[146,85,46,409],"class_list":["post-474387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}