"Elected" is a single by
rock band
Alice Cooper, released as the first
Hot 100 hit on their sixth studio album Billion Dollar Babies (1973). The single reached number 26 during election week on the charts in the United States, number 4 on the charts in the United Kingdom and number 3 in Austria.[citation needed] The promotional music video was directed by Hart Perry.[3]
In 1992, a cover version titled "(I Want To Be) Elected" by
Rowan Atkinson (as
Mr. Bean) and Smear Campaign was released in support of the British charity
Comic Relief and featured a performance by
Bruce Dickinson and members of the hard rock band Taste (later known as
Skin). The record was released in the run up to the United Kingdom
General Election of 1992 and reached No. 9 in the
UK Singles Chart.[12] The music video, in which Mr. Bean's doorstep canvassing and electoral stunts are intercut with the live video of Dickinson and the band, was directed by
Paul Weiland.[13]
Following the death of
Paddy Ashdown on December 22, 2018, the music video was broadcast by
ITV on December 24, 2018, and featured a title card paying tribute to Ashdown.
^Rice, Jo; Tim Rice; Paul Gambaccini; Mike Read (1979). The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles (2nd ed.). Enfield, Middlesex: Guinness Superlatives Ltd. p. 56.
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