Postcards From Heaven

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Top RPM Adult Contemporary: Issue 7937." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved 6 February 2018.

Eurochart Hot 100 Singles" (PDF). Music & Media. Vol.15, no.24. 13 June 1998. p.11 . Retrieved 26 February 2020. Official Hip Hop and R&B Singles Chart Top 40". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 17 September 2018. The Irish Charts – Search Results – Lighthouse Family". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 9 August 2020. Austriancharts.at – Lighthouse Family – Postcards From Heaven" (in German). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 April 2021. The Official Swiss Charts and Music Community: Awards (Lighthouse Family; 'High ')". IFPI Switzerland. Hung Medien.The lead single, "Lifted", received airplay on BBC Radio One as well as a number of BBC Local Radio stations, and The Chart Show aired its music video. [2] Still, this did not translate to considerable single or album sales within 1995; it was not until "Lifted" was re-released in 1996 that it reached the top five on the UK Singles Chart, and Ocean Drive, which had been deleted, rebounded and was certified six-times platinum by the end of 1997, spending 154 weeks on the UK Albums Chart in the process. [1] Its follow-up Postcards from Heaven achieved similar sales status in 1997. It featured the hit single " High" (number four in the UK) with the music video filmed in North East England and featuring Newcastle's Tyne Bridge. [3]

The night before that, I just wrote down what I was thinking, which was, 'when you're close to tears remember someday it'll all be over'. It was how I felt, I just wanted to get this song over and done with. As soon as I’d written that the whole thing came together. It just fell into place. So in truth, High is actually a description of a very uncomfortable situation. Critical reception [ edit ]

The three big hit singles show them at their best and demonstrate at least some diversity within their admittedly narrow range of operation, “Raincloud” cheekily reworks the 70’s disco-groove of the old John Paul Young hit “Love Is In The Air” to paradoxically sunny effect, “High” sees them recreating the lush gospel feel of their best known song “Lifted” with its spiritual undertone and evangelical choir while “Lost In Space” is a stand-out, spaced-out, almost trippy ballad which even borrows a little from 60’s psychedelia for effect. Ultratop.be – Lighthouse Family – Postcards From Heaven" (in French). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 April 2021.

Ultratop.be – Lighthouse Family – Postcards From Heaven" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 April 2021. It took about eight months to write the song. When we did Ocean Drive there was no pressure, we hadn't sold any records so nobody was expecting anything, whereas when we got to the second album which is what this was, there were a lot of people who were saying, 'this is huge, this is massive, this is the hit on the record.' And I hadn't even finished writing it, so immediately I'm under this enormous pressure. Swedishcharts.com – Lighthouse Family – Postcards From Heaven". Hung Medien. Retrieved 1 April 2021. This section contains overly lengthy quotations. Please help summarize the quotations. Consider transferring direct quotations to Wikiquote or excerpts to Wikisource. ( May 2022) High was probably the most difficult song to write of all of them. Without getting too heavy, my wife lost a baby on New Year's Eve in 1996, the year that the album [ Ocean Drive] was a hit. Lifted was a hit and Ocean Drive was a hit. It was the first week in 1997 I started writing High, and I had the bit: 'One day we're gonna get so high'. That was the same week – and this is absolutely incidental, it’s nothing to do with the song - although a Newcastle United fan might think it is – that Kevin Keegan left Newcastle United. I just remember that week so well because of what happened.Official Scottish Singles Sales Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 17 September 2018. Moody, Paul. "Lighthouse Family - Postcards From Heaven". NME. Archived from the original on 17 August 2000 . Retrieved 13 November 2018. The duo had planned to release a new album called Blue Sky in Your Head on 3 May 2019, introduced by the single, "My Salvation", on 21 March; however, the album release was delayed until 5 July 2019. Blue Sky in Your Head is their first album in 18 years. Lighthouse Family have announced a multi-date UK tour commencing in November 2019. [ citation needed] The album was supported with two sell-out UK tours. Postcard from Heaven" is a song by the Lighthouse Family, released as the duo's fifth and final single from their second album Postcards from Heaven (1999). The song was produced by Mike Peden. It was released in January 1999 and reached the top 30 in the UK as well as being just outside the top 90 in Europe. It received a completely different remixed version for single release. This mix appeared on both the Greatest Hits and Relaxed & Remixed compilations, in 2002 and 2004 respectively.