National anthem presence of the Monarch in some Commonwealth realms, was first performed in 1619 under the title "God Save the King". It is not officially the national anthem of the UK, though it became such through custom and usage. Spain's national anthem, the "Marcha Real" (The Royal March), written in 1761, was among the first to be adopted as such, in 1770. Denmark adopted the older of its two national anthems, "Kong Christian stod ved højen mast", in 1780; and "La Marseillaise", the French national anthem, was written in 1792 and adopted in 1795. Serbia became the first Eastern European nation
Argentine National Anthem version in his 1990 album ', stirring much controversy. In 1998 various Argentine artists reedited the anthem and other patriotic songs in the joint album '. Other singers followed on their footsteps recreating the piece in their own ways. A line from the original version of the national anthem was used as the Argentine title of the 1928 film known in English as "The Charge of the Gauchos". The national anthem appears at the beginning of the 1985 film "The Official Story", an Academy Award winner. Due to the excessive length of the official version, in international events such as