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2 unusual facts about Givin' Up and Gettin Fat


Givin' Up and Gettin Fat

You Am I fan Peter Helliar has a small cameo as a man whose baguette is stolen from him.

In this clip the band members feature as four ruffians in Marseilles, each getting into trouble and being chased across the city, eventually hiding in the Foreign Legion recruitment office.


Blair Thornton

As a songwriter, Thornton contributed two compositions to the Not Fragile album: "Givin' It All Away" and an instrumental called "Freewheelin'", still one of the favourite anthems of Not Fragile that also wound up as the B-side of the No. 1 hit "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet".

Givin' It Up

Other noteworthy vocalists and musicians featured are Jill Scott, Patti Austin, Herbie Hancock, Stanley Clarke, Abe Laboriel, Chris Botti, Marcus Miller, and Beatles Legend Paul McCartney.

This project also contains standards by Billie Holiday (God Bless The Child) and Sam Cooke (Bring It On Home To Me), popular classics by Seals and Crofts (Summer Breeze) and Daryl Hall (Everytime You Go Away) along with the classic jazz-swing "Four" by the legendary Miles Davis, and the neo-soul hit "Ordinary People" by John Legend.

No. 1 of the Secret Service

Simon Bell wrote and performed the theme song Givin' It Plenty that was also used in the first sequel Licensed to Love and Kill and reused in Tintorera.

Tyra Bolling

"Givin' Me a Rush" was supposedly taken from her second studio album "Past Due".


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