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The first performance of the song was at a 1982 concert in Carnegie Hall. [1]The song was written in 1982 [2] by group member Peter Yarrow as a pacifist response to the 1982 Lebanon War, an intention was reflected in the lyrics "Light one candle for the terrible sacrifice justice and freedom demand, Light one candle for the wisdom to know when the peacemaker's time is at hand."
Jon Pareles, writing for Creem says Flash and the Pan’s songs are “incorrigibly catchy” but he earlier notes the detachment of the vocal style and the insincerity of lyrics; like Simels, he counters his own criticism, saying, “[If] You want sincerity, go watch Merv Griffin.” [10] Simon Frith in Melody Maker factors the experience of ...
"Betty & Dupree" (Adapted and arranged by Peter Yarrow, Noel "Paul" Stookey, Mary Travers, Milton Okun) - 3:13 " The Rising of the Moon " ( John Keegan "Leo" Casey Adapted and arranged by Peter Yarrow, Noel "Paul" Stookey, Mary Travers, Milton Okun) - 3:36
The song was originally conceived when the founder of XL Recordings Richard Russell asked Peter Gabriel to make a song for his project "Everything Is Recorded".While in the studio, Gabriel came up with some chords, melodies and words on top of a groove he was working on; with the help from Russell, it would eventually become "Four Kinds of Horses".
The song became a hit with Hongkongers and carved her name in their music scene in the '70s. "Torn Between Two Lovers" has also been recorded by Johnny Rodriguez for his 1977 album Practice Makes Perfect , Anna-Lena Löfgren for her 1979 album Lev Som Du Lär and Anita Meyer for her 1984 album Face to Face .
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Two music videos exist for this song. The most well-known video, directed by Jon Reiss , [ 4 ] uses the radio edit of the song, which is four minutes and twenty-four seconds long. The other video uses the longer album version of the song, which has a significantly longer runtime of eight minutes and fifty-eight seconds.
The nearly ten minute song was edited to just 4½ minutes for the single release. The single was released on January 14, 2008, ten months after the album's release on March 13, 2007. "September Sun" was the band's final single released before the passing of frontman Peter Steele .