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This is the Moment

Chris Thompson , Music Video – 1990

from the single This is the Moment (2021)
The song took on a life of its own...my mother was inundated with all of her friends saying how proud they were and how they loved the song. It was fantastic.
– Lead singer Chris Thompson recalls the pride Kiwis felt in the song, The Sunday Star-Times, 1 April 2018
If Dave Dobbyn had sung it, it would have been a different story ... I was quite happy with what went down considering all the rules we had to abide by.
– Billy Kristian on 'This is the Moment' never getting released as a single, The Sunday Star-Times, 1 April 2018
Lyrically unsophisticated, musically repetitive, and yet ridiculously catchy, 'This is the Moment' became a carpe diem rallying cry for a nation giddy on sporting success.
– Article on 1990 Commonwealth Games song 'This is the Moment', The Sunday Star-Times, 1 April 2018