| Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running) | |
| Cover: | CheerUpBoys.jpg |
| Type: | single |
| Artist: | Foo Fighters |
| Album: | Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace |
| Released: | April 7, 2008 |
| Recorded: | March–June 2007 |
| Genre: | Alternative rock, post-grunge |
| Length: | 3:41 |
| Label: | Roswell/RCA |
| Producer: | Gil Norton |
| Prev Title: | Long Road to Ruin |
| Prev Year: | 2007 |
| Next Title: | Let It Die |
| Next Year: | 2008 |
"Cheer Up, Boys (Your Make Up Is Running)" is the third single released from the Foo Fighters' 2007 album Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. The single was released as a digital-only release in the UK via iTunes.[1] No physical retail singles were released; however, promotional singles were released for radio airplay.[2] The B-side is a cover of Paul McCartney & Wings' "Band on the Run", which was previously released on Radio 1 Established 1967.[3]
Dave Grohl commented on the song, saying "For this song, it was a working title that stuck, because that was a song that we had demoed and it sounded like this really bright, poppy, late '80s R.E.M. song that would have been off their 'Green' or something like that."[4] AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine says the song has a riff as nimble as those on Foo Fighters' debut album.[5]
A live version filmed at Wembley Stadium on June 7, 2008, was released on the Live at Wembley Stadium DVD.
Personnel adapted from Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace liner notes[6]