Dance Anthem: ‘Big Love’ by Pete Heller

Dance Anthem: ‘Big Love’ by Pete Heller

13 September, 2007 | 2.10PM

• Section: Music News Topics: Dance Anthems
• Written by: Kirsty Kane

Brighton-born Pete Heller achieved international fame when he released his biggest hit ‘Big Love’ in 1998. The story of how the famous house anthem came about is an interesting one. At the time, Heller had been part of the Terry Farley and Boys Own house crew, and had started churning out club hits including DSK’s ‘What Would We Do’. 

Remember Heller & Farley’s ‘Ultra Flava’? That was them too (the track went top twenty in the UK).

Then in 1998 when Terry Farley disappeared for a few days to watch Chelsea football team play in the European Cup Winners’ Cup final in Stockholm, Pete Heller went into the studio on his own, something that he rarely did.

‘Big Love’ popped out.

“I knocked it out really quickly. In a day. Actually 12 hours. After I’d done it, I thought it was going to be a demo so I edited it down to ten minutes and that became the final release,” explained Heller at the time, about a track which is now one of the biggest house anthems of all time.

So just think, if Chelsea hadn’t made it to the final, then Farley might not have left Heller in the studio by himself. And then the world might not have had its ‘Big Love’.

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