Right Here, Right Now

The fourth single from You've Come a Long Way, Baby appeared on 19 April 1999 and reached number two in the UK. It also made the top 40 in Australia, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, New Zealand and Wallonia. It samples James Gang's Ashes, the Rain and I, from the 1970 album James Gang Rides Again, and a line spoken by Angela Bassett in the 1995 film Strange Days. Pitchfork said it began as an attempt at a string tune, prompted by a DJ Mag readers' poll naming Massive Attack's Unfinished Sympathy the best club track ever. Where that arrangement was full, live and stately, the writer said, Cook's, lifted from a James Gang ballad, was like a torrential rainstorm on the pitch. The B-side was Don't Forget Your Teeth.

Hammer & Tongs made the video, an homage to the opening of the French series Once Upon a Time... Man. It compresses human evolution into three and a half minutes, from a single-celled organism to the man on the album cover. In 2004 Tony Blair used the song at a Labour Party conference without permission, and Cook said this implied he supported Blair, which he did not. At a Gateshead concert in October 2019 he played it over Greta Thunberg's United Nations speech, and the mashup went viral. Mixmag readers voted it number 10 among the greatest dance tracks in 2013.