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Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album and second compilation album by Northern Irish–Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released on 14 May 2013 through Polydor Records. Unlike their previous compilation album, Up to Now (2009), the album does not contain any tracks from before the release of Final Straw (2003).
Guitarist Nathan Connolly joined in 2002 and Snow Patrol was signed to Fiction and Interscope record labels in 2003. [7] [8] Their third studio album, Final Straw, was released the same year, and was a commercial success. "Run" became their breakthrough single in the United Kingdom, charting in the top 5 on the singles chart. [9]
Snow Patrol are a Northern Irish–Scottish rock band formed in 1994 in Dundee, Scotland, [1] consisting of Gary Lightbody (vocals, guitar), Nathan Connolly (guitar, backing vocals), and Johnny McDaid (piano, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals); Lightbody is the band's sole remaining original member.
It saw the band play "reworked" versions of songs that spanned their full career, including songs from side-project The Reindeer Section. [50] The songs were reconstructed using strings, brass and choir. [51] The band visited a south London studio to rehearse the reworked songs. [52] [53] Touring began in mid-November, and continued till early ...
The song is Snow Patrol's biggest-selling single to date, ending 2006 as that year's 14th best-selling single in the UK. [4] It was the last song performed live on the BBC's Top of the Pops that year. [5] Released in the post-Britpop period, the song peaked at number 6 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 5 on the US Billboard Hot 100. [6] [7]
Eyes Open is the fourth studio album by Northern Irish–Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released on 28 April 2006 in Ireland, 1 May in the United Kingdom, and 9 May in the United States. It is their first album without bassist Mark McClelland and their first to feature bassist Paul Wilson and keyboardist Tom Simpson .
The lyrics were written by lead singer Gary Lightbody and the music was composed by him and the other two members of Snow Patrol at the time, Mark McClelland and Jonny Quinn. [1] The song reached number 161 on the UK Singles Chart.
According to Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody: "It's near the beginning of a dangerously reliant relationship. The album is full of songs like this. Rather than a break-up record this is a make-up record. That is a massive generalisation but it is a more positive record than the last".