Right Here, Right Now (Jesus Jones song)


"Right Here, Right Now" is a song by British alternative dance band Jesus Jones from the album Doubt. It was released as the album's second single in September 1990. Despite spending only nine nonconsecutive weeks on the UK Singles Chart and peaking at number 31, it became a top ten hit in the United States; it topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1991, only behind " I Do It for You" by Bryan Adams.
The single sold over 1 million copies, won a BMI award, and was the song most played on college radio in 1991.

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The song was inspired by events in Europe of the late 1980s, particularly Perestroika in the Soviet Union; Mike Edwards has since noted some of the lyrics were influenced by the band's experiences playing in Romania in February 1990 right after the overthrow of Ceauşescu. Some of the lyrics were inspired by both Prince's 1987 song "Sign o' the Times" and a 1989 cover version of that song by Simple Minds, the latter of which the members of Jesus Jones disliked and had first heard during television coverage of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Edwards' original demo for "Right Here, Right Now" featured samples of the Prince song, as well as guitar solos by Jimi Hendrix, but producer Martyn Phillips removed both elements from the song before the band recorded it.
The official video for the song shows the band performing on stage mixed with various images from contemporary political events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, and brief snippets of news footage of the collapse of the Soviet Union and speeches by American and Soviet leaders.

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