The tributes to Rik Mayall just keep on coming – with the latest taking the form of two campaigns to get the late comedian to the top of the charts.

Among those spearheading the bids for a chart-topper is DJ Jon Morter, who has launched a Facebook campaign to get Mayall’s obscure 2010 World Cup anthem Noble England to number one.

The little-known song – which failed to make the top 40 when it was originally released – features Mayall delivering a more football-themed take on lines from Henry V against a backing track of chanting fans.

He also appears in the video in period costume as he presides over players on a football pitch, before eventually being surrounded by crowds of flag-waving England fans.




According to the Facebook page the track is already at number 33 in the charts, less than 24 hours after the comedian’s death.

Meanwhile a second campaign is focusing its attentions on Living Doll, the number one single which saw Mayall and his Young Ones castmates – Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer and Christopher Ryan – team up with Cliff Richard.

That track originally topped the charts for three weeks in 1986 – but could well gain attention once again if King Richard’s page Get The Young Ones To Number One proves popular enough.

Mayall was found dead at his home in Barnes, south-west London, by his wife Barbara Robbin yesterday afternoon, although the exact cause of his death remains unknown.

Robbin, a make-up artist, told reporters: ‘We don’t know yet what happened…‘Maybe he had a fit, maybe it was his heart. We just don’t know.’

The comedian, who had reportedly been in ‘good spirits’ on the set of his final film The Escape just last week, had been left with epilepsy as a result of his near-fatal quad bike accident in 1998 – during which he suffered two brain hemorrhages – and had to take daily medication to control the symptoms.

He had previously admitted suffering from fits after failing to take the tablets.