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"The Downtown Lights" is a song by Scottish band The Blue Nile, released in 1989 as the lead single from their second studio album Hats. It was written by Paul Buchanan and produced by the band. It was written by Paul Buchanan and produced by the band.
It makes everything glossy. I don't mean it's better, but it's so glamorous, I met lots of people—it was fascinating." [16] The band also worked on Annie Lennox's first solo album, Diva, co-writing the track "The Gift". Lennox later covered "The Downtown Lights" (from Hats) for her second album, Medusa, released in 1995.
“The Downtown Lights” was released as the lead single from their second studio album, 1989’s critically adored Hats. It reached No 67 in the UK and stayed in the charts for three weeks.
The song features a reference to the Scottish band the Blue Nile and their 1989 single "The Downtown Lights" in the lyrics ("Drowning in the Blue Nile/ He sent me 'Downtown Lights'/ I hadn't heard it in a while"). [25]
The song "The Downtown Lights" came out on The Blue Nile's album "Hats," which was released in 1989 - both Swift's birth year and the title of her fifth studio album. Swift's re-recording of "1989 ...
The coordinated downtown light show has been held since at least 2010, The Star reported in 2019. The Royals’ World Series runs in 2014 and 2015 popularized the practice.
In a review of Hats, Paul Robicheau of The Boston Globe wrote, "The group crosses dusky, percolating keyboard layers with the grey vocals of Paul Buchanan to build a subtle splendor on 'The Downtown Lights' and 'Headlights on the Parade'."
The Myriad Gardens' Crystal Bridge Conservatory is festooned with hundreds of lights and poinsettias, including the downtown OKC landmark's signature poinsettia tree. Extended holiday hours for ...