What Makes a Good Man?

"What Makes a Good Man?"
Single by The Heavy
from the album The Glorious Dead
B-side
  • "In Your Hands" (Green 7")
  • "The Sleeping Ignoramus" (Orange 7")
Released23 May 2012
Genre
Length
  • 3:48 (album version)
  • 3:24 (radio edit)
LabelCounter
Songwriter(s)The Heavy
Producer(s)Jim Abbiss
The Heavy singles chronology
"Short Change Hero"
(2009)
"What Makes a Good Man?"
(2012)
"Curse Me Good"
(2012)

"What Makes a Good Man?" is a song by English rock band The Heavy. It was released as the lead single from their third studio album, The Glorious Dead, on 23 May 2012. A music video for the song was also released on Vevo and YouTube on 21 August 2012. The song peaked at number 127 on the French Singles Chart.

The song was used during the credits sequence in the video game Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel. and a Russian television commercial for the Volkswagen Teramont. Since March 2018 it is also the theme song for the German late night show Late Night Berlin. It was also used as the theme song for WWE's PPV event Royal Rumble in January 2013. In 2024, the song appears as the soundtrack to a pastoral spring scene at the end of Season 3, Episode 4 of Clarkson's Farm. In 2013 the song was used for a short period during the Top Gear season 19 “Nile Special”.