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"The Downtown Lights" is a song by Scottish band The Blue Nile, released in 1989 as the lead single from their second studio album Hats. It was written by Paul Buchanan and produced by the band. It was written by Paul Buchanan and produced by the band.
Hats is the second studio album by Scottish band the Blue Nile, originally released on 16 October 1989 on Linn Records and A&M Records.. After a prolonged delay in which an entire album's worth of work was scrapped, the Blue Nile released Hats to rave reviews, including a rare five-star rating from Q magazine.
The radio play gained by Hats in the US, in particular the single "The Downtown Lights", brought the Blue Nile to the attention of several well-known US-based musicians. In 1991, the band was invited to Los Angeles to work on songs by Julian Lennon , Robbie Robertson and Michael McDonald .
The song "The Downtown Lights" came out on The Blue Nile's album "Hats," which was released in 1989 - both Swift's birth year and the title of her fifth studio album. Swift's re-recording of "1989 ...
“The Downtown Lights” was released as the lead single from their second studio album, 1989’s critically adored Hats. It reached No 67 in the UK and stayed in the charts for three weeks.
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Paul Gerard Buchanan (born 16 April 1956), is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician, known for critically acclaimed compositions both as a co-founder of the Blue Nile and for his solo material. Buchanan was the writer of the Blue Nile's album Hats, which was identified by The Herald newspaper as Scotland's favourite album of all time, in 2018.
They sought to create something similar but "slightly different [...] like [the] Blue Nile on steroids", and wanted the song to sound "really machine-like, in an industrial sense". [3] In an interview with Entertainment Weekly , Healy said the song was based on " The Downtown Lights ", adding: "I didn't want to hide away from referencing it.