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It was released in the UK on 19 July 2004. The song is the Streets' most successful single, reaching number one in the United Kingdom on 25 July 2004, six days after its release. "Dry Your Eyes" also went straight to number one in Ireland staying there for three weeks in a row.
("Dry Your Eyes") Deals with the events of his life in one of two ways; the final track, "Empty Cans", features two endings to the plot, a bitter ending and a happy ending (the former where he and a TV repairman get into a fight over the repairman's fee, and the latter in which he reconciles with his mates and finds the £1,000 had fallen down ...
The Streets also released a string of successful singles during this time, which reached the Top 40 on the UK Singles chart – including "Has It Come to This?", "Fit but You Know It", "Dry Your Eyes" (the project's only number-one single), "When You Wasn't Famous" and "Prangin' Out". After disbanding The Streets in 2011, Skinner pursued ...
The Streets released six studio albums, three mixtapes, one EP and thirty-five singles. The first studio album, Original Pirate Material , was released in the United Kingdom on 25 March 2002, and reached number 10 on the UK Albums Chart , managing to be certified as platinum in March 2003. [ 1 ]
"Dry Your Eyes" was a number-one single for new artist The Streets from Birmingham. His other single " Fit but You Know It " ranked at number four. Dizzee Rascal was a featured act on the Band Aid 20 single, and also reached number 10 with his song " Stand Up Tall ".
Michael Geoffrey Skinner (born 27 November 1978) [1] is an English rapper, singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. Best known for the music project the Streets, [2] Skinner has also released music as a solo artist, as part of the D.O.T. with frequent collaborator Rob Harvey, [3] and under the pseudonym The Darker the Shadow the Brighter the Light.
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Original Pirate Material is the debut studio album by English hip hop project the Streets, released on 25 March 2002.Recorded mostly in a room in a south London house rented at the time by principal member Mike Skinner, the album is musically influenced by UK garage and American hip hop, while its lyrics tell stories of British working-class life.