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"20th Century Boy" was released on 2 March 1973. It entered the UK Singles Chart at number 3 on 10 March 1973 and peaked three weeks in a row at that position. [11] It stayed a total of nine weeks in the UK Chart while topping the charts in Ireland, although like most T. Rex singles it failed to chart in the US.
"This Mourning" is the lead single from Canadian band Chalk Circle's first full-length album, Mending Wall. It was released on Duke Street Records in 1987.. The song itself deals with the nuclear threat of annihilation that was very much part of everyday life in the 1980s.
The album would later be reissued with a cover version of T-Rex's "20th Century Boy", which also became a Canadian hit single. The band's final album was 1989's As the Crow Flies, which spawned two singles, "Sons and Daughters" and "Together". [8] It also included the song "Blue Heaven", which included guest vocals by labelmate Jane Siberry. [8]
From contemporary reviews, Josephine Hocking wrote in Smash Hits called the album a "cliche-ridden Heavy Metal album" and noted that song like "Burning in the Heat" and "Play Dirty" proved "beyond any reasonable doubt that sexist lyrics and boring guitar solos can be done equally badly by women as by men."
Molko wrote the English lyrics to "Pink Water 3", a song by Indochine from the album Alice & June, released in 2005. [23] Molko was friends with David Bowie; Bowie sang on Placebo's "Without You I'm Nothing" [24] and on the "20th Century Boy" cover live.
A reissue of the album included a cover of T-Rex's "20th Century Boy", which was released as a single. The subsequent reissue of The Great Lake EP, in 1988, also included the track as one of the bonus cuts.
"21st Century Boy" is a song by the British new wave band Sigue Sigue Sputnik, released in May 1986 and is the second single from their debut studio album Flaunt It. It was the band's second biggest hit, peaking at number 20 on the UK Singles Chart .
James Semple Kerr AM (6 July 1932 – 15 October 2014) was an architectural historian and heritage practitioner in Australia, who was prominent in the drafting of the original Burra Charter and its subsidiary documents, and developing standards for conservation practice, particularly in relation to conservation assessments and management reports such as conservation management plans.