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Rik Mayall: Fans campaign for World Cup song to reach No.1 Jon Morter joins campaign to get 'Noble England' at the top of the UK chart. By Tom Eames Published: 10 June 2014 ...

The campaign to get Rik Mayall's World Cup anthem to top the charts is celebrating an early success.. The song Noble England – based on Shakespeares's 'Once more unto the breach' speech from Henry V – ...

A campaign has been launched to pay tribute to dead comedian Rik Mayall by sending a World Cup song he wrote to number one. The former Young Ones star recorded a track called Noble England in the run ...

But now, with the passing of Rik Mayall, and the beginning of. ... fuelled by the antics of Jon Morter who managed to deny Simon Cowell his Christmas X-Factor No 1 in 2009 by getting Rage Against ...

Rik Mayall, the beloved British comedian, writer and actor, has died at the age of 56, according to a statement from his management, Brunskill. "We are deeply saddened to announce the death of Rik ...

Why Rik Mayall's 'Drop Dead Fred' Is Still Genius Today. An appreciation of a great comedic performance by a British actor who never again appeared so prominently in an American film. By.

For an entire generation growing up the 1980s and 1990s, Rik Mayall was one of the most familiar - and fascinating - faces on television. And now, 11 years after his death at the age of 56, his ...

Greg Davies, Peter Richardson, Shaparak Khorsandi and Helen Lederer have all been confirmed for the first comedy festival held in Rik Mayall's memory. The community-run festival is taking place ...

The world just got a little drabber. British comedy actor Rik Mayall, best known on this side of the pond for his romp as the titular imaginary friend in the 1991 comedy “Drop Dead Fred,” died ...