Facebook campaign propels Rik Mayall track into UK top 10
A Facebook campaign set up in the wake of the comedians death has propelled a little known Rik Mayall ditty into seventh spot on the UK top 10 - four years after it was first recorded.
Noble England was first released to coincide with the 2010 World Cup but bombed in the charts, after failing to capitalise on the then patriotic fervour.
Blackadder and Bottom fans have been buying the single in their droves however as a means of paying tribute to the late comedian.
In the track Mayall recites a breast beating delivery from Shakespeare’s Henry V in an effort to invoke the spirit of the Battle of Agincourt.
Speaking at the time of the son’s original release Mayall said: "That battle was basically very few Englishmen against the rest of the world," Mayall said in an interview in 2010.
"When you hear the speech delivered in a gutsy way it makes you go, 'Yeah, right, bring 'em on, let's do it', rather than, 'How nice, what a lovely piece of poetry.'"