Iconic part of Big Brother turns 25 and fans say it's 'better than the show'
- DJ Paul Oakenfold posted a clip of the original Big Brother theme audio on Facebook earlier this week, marking its 25th anniversary.
- Released as Elementfour, the track debuted in September 2000 following the successful summer Channel 4 show.
- Paul Oakenfold and Andy Gray created the track, which featured on every UK show series since 2000.
- The single hit number four in the UK charts in 2000 and received over 4,500 Facebook likes on the recent post.
- Fans eagerly reminisced about the music and show, with many praising the long-running theme tune online.
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Twenty-five years of ‘Big Brother’, the original format of telereality
25 years have passed since, with the first broadcast of Big Brother on April 23, 2000, the television genre of telereality was born. That first edition, on horseback between the television show and the social experiment, came to bring together an average of almost 8 million viewers who marked 51.2% of the screen quota, which made Big Brother 1 the most watched entertainment program in the history of television in Spain.
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