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Big Country's first single was "Harvest Home", recorded and released in 1982. [1]It was a modest success, although it did not reach the UK Singles Chart. [3] Their next single was 1983's "Fields Of Fire (400 Miles)", which reached the UK's Top Ten and was followed by the album The Crossing. [3]
In 2007, Butler, Watson and Brzezicki celebrated the twenty-fifth anniversary of Big Country by reforming for a UK tour, touring again in 2010, this time with Mike Peters joining the band for vocal duties. 2011 saw the release of a new single, the band's first new music for eleven years, before Butler retired in 2012.
In 2004, guitarist Bruce Watson recalled of the song, "It was originally demoed in my home studio in Charlestown. It was a case of me having the intro and the verse worked out and Stuart having the chorus and the middle 8 worked out. A lot of Big Country songs were bolted together and this song is a prime example."
Big Country's first hit, 1983's "Fields of Fire", reached the UK's Top 10, and was rapidly followed by the album The Crossing. The album was a big hit in North America (Canada number 4, [ 7 ] United States number 18) powered by the single " In a Big Country ", which was performed on Saturday Night Live and the Grammy Awards .
In a 1990 interview with Melody Maker, Adamson described "Peace in Our Time" as a "very Sixties feel protest song, naive but I did it anyway." [3] He added in an interview with Sounds, "I do feel music can be more than a three-minute adrenaline rush, but there's a great danger in viewing a song with too much weight.
The song was a big hit, introducing the band to mainstream audiences in the United States in 1984 and reaching the top ten in the UK Singles Chart. [1] On their album review of The Crossing, Rolling Stone noted that the song was "one of the great, resounding anthems of this or any other year" and praised the "bagpipelike single-string riffs". [3]
"Somebody Else" was one of two songs on Driving to Damascus to be written by Big Country's lead vocalist and guitarist Stuart Adamson with Ray Davies of the Kinks.Davies and Big Country first worked together after Davies approached the band's management in 1997 to ask whether their rhythm section, bassist Tony Butler and drummer Mark Brzezicki, were available to back him at his upcoming ...
"See You" is a song by Scottish rock band Big Country, released in 1999 as a double A-side single with "Perfect World". It was the second single to be released from their eighth studio album Driving to Damascus and reached number 77 in the UK Singles Chart .