E=MC2 (song)

"E=MC2"
Single by Big Audio Dynamite
from the album This Is Big Audio Dynamite
ReleasedMarch 1986
Recorded1985
Genre
Length5:55
LabelCBS
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Mick Jones
Big Audio Dynamite singles chronology
"The Bottom Line"
(1986)
"E=MC2"
(1986)
"Medicine Show"
(1986)
Music video
"E=MC2" on YouTube

"E=MC2" is a 1986 single by the English band Big Audio Dynamite, released as the second single from their debut studio album, This Is Big Audio Dynamite (1985). The song was the band's first Top 40 hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 11. Additionally, it peaked at number 37 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the United States. The song features prominent dialogue samples from the crime drama film Performance (1970). The song is also played during the opening titles of the French movie Forces spéciales (2011).