One Strike One Strike "One Strike" is a song recorded by English-Canadian girl group All Saints for their fourth studio album, "Red Flag" (2016). The track was written by group member Shaznay Lewis and its producer Hutch, inspired by the breakdown of group member Nicole Appleton's highly publicised marriage to Oasis and Beady Eye frontman Liam Gallagher. 'One Strike' is a mid-tempo, R&B, soul and synth-pop song that lyrically deals with the protagonist's emotions immediately after breaking up with their significant other. "One Strike" was released for digital download by London Records on 23 February 2016 as All Saints' comeback single, and
All Saints (group) was their fourth number-one single in the UK and the second best-selling single of 2000, with 600,000 copies sold; it also became their first and only number-one single in Ireland and was a substantial hit across Europe and Australia. The song won an Ivor Novello Award for Most Performed Work. All Saints performed the song at the 2000 MTV Europe Music Awards. Also in 2000, the Appleton sisters and Blatt made their film debut with "Honest", which was directed by former Eurythmics member Dave Stewart. "Honest" is a black comedy set in Swinging London in the late 1960s, in which