Half the World Away the orchestra. Some of the borrowing in the song is from Gallagher's own work: the line "My body feels young but my mind is very old" was adapted from the second line of the earlier song "Comin' On Strong" ("Your body's still young but your mind is very old"), a song that would later itself be reworked by the Chemical Brothers as Setting Sun, with Noel's vocals and lyrics retained. The song gained mass public exposure when it was selected by Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash to be the theme tune to their sitcom "The Royle Family". The series revolved
EastEnders theme tune is about." He offered an attempt that conveyed everything about the East End that the producers wanted; "bells, whistles, hand-claps, sitars, steel drums and an underlying feel of being on a merry-go-round." May actually began writing the music that was used for the theme tune when he was seven years old, around 34 years before "EastEnders" first aired, and based it on the scales that his music teacher had taught him. The drum beats at the start of the theme tune were played by May's drummer, Graham Broad. May had originally composed a longer theme that featured a section in