When the World Knows Your Name

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I always think it’s funny that people view Chocolate Girl as a really romantic song,” says Ross. “I say, ‘If you think that is a romantic song, then you must have a bad marriage! The point is that it’s a horrible relationship.” The band's ninth studio album City of Love was released on 6 March 2020. In February 2021, they released their tenth studio album entitled Riding on the Tide of Love to commercial success in the UK. And so, on Believers, he embarks on “the journey we all take into the dark”, the point in all our lives where, “whatever you’ve been told, whatever the evidence is you’ve been presented with, you just don’t know what the answer is.” Since then, they have released three albums and toured regularly, while Ross and Vipond have established themselves as presenters on both BBC radio and television. Salaverri, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (1sted.). Spain: Fundación Autor-SGAE. ISBN 84-8048-639-2.

The predominantly gloomy tenor of the songs is brilliantly captured by Oscar Marzaroli’s iconic cover image of a rainy day in Glasgow’s West End. Ross seems to have traded his inner Boss for his inner Bono, especially on the histrionic Bethlehem’s Gate and All Over The World. Brilliantly crafted, with an eye firmly on the prize of commercial triumph, it includes no fewer than five hit singles, among them their first Top 10 hit, Real Gone Kid, as well as Wages Day and Fergus Sings The Blues. Deacon Blue". Facebook.com. Archived from the original on 26 February 2022 . Retrieved 5 August 2018.

Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.145. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. Between February and March 2018, Deacon Blue embarked on a tour of Spain, marking the first time that the band has played a series of live shows in Spain. The band described the shows as "an incredible experience for us all", and later confirmed that Deacon Blue will be returning to Spain in 2019 for another series of live shows, stating that "Spain has a very special place in our hearts". [11] 2018–2021: City of Love [ edit ] Deacon Blue appeared at The Homecoming Live Final Fling Show, at Glasgow's SECC on 28 November 2009, and headlined Glasgow's Hogmanay on 31 December 2009. The band performed several gigs, including Glastonbury, and the Liverpool Echo Arena on 29 July 2011. Among the sonic reference points are Steely Dan, whose Do It Again is sampled on Silverlake, The Beach Boys ( A Is For Astronaut) and Burt Bacharach ( Rae). Strong, Martin C. (2002). The Great Scots Musicography: The Complete Guide to Scotland's Music Makers. Mercat. p.214. ISBN 978-1-8418-3041-4.

Gaels Blue, a 1985 album by the self-styled Bard Of Dundee, singer-songwriter Michael Marra, was the touchstone for Fergus Sings The Blues. He was always really helpful to young musicians and was a big influence with the way he would write songs playing the piano,” he said following Marra’s death in 2012. Peaking at No.2 in the UK, Fellow Hoodlums is a more organic collection of songs than its predecessor, embodied by its second single (and Deacon Blue’s second Top 10 hit), Twist And Shout. Not to be confused with the song made famous by The Top Notes, The Isley Brothers and, of course, The Beatles, it fuses pop with Cajun zydeco. Ross and McIntosh are in sparkling form once again, particularly on One Day I’ll Go Walking, while McIntosh also gets a solo spot on the sublime Cover From The Sky.The faithful had to wait 11 years for DB’s sixth LP, a gap that could arguably be attributed to the emotional toll exerted on the band by Kelling’s passing. A New House, according to Ross, is “about our country, Scotland, a physical sense of a place that I’m sometimes overwhelmed with”. Another single lifted from Raintown, like Dignity it only reached the Top 40 at the second time of asking, cresting at No.34. Deacon Blue, in seeking out the answer here rely on the heart rather than the head – and the sweetest melodies emerge from the heart, as illustrated by Birds, Come Awake and the swoonsome instrumental B Boy. Ross and McIntosh dovetail beautifully, as always.

Ross penned the song – essentially about a street sweeper who dreams of saving his hard-earned cash to buy a boat – while holidaying in Greece. “That’s why there’s a reference to raki in it, the local firewater,” he explained.As Mat Snow succinctly summed it up in his Q magazine review, she “adroitly feminises the band’s texture and so saves us on more than one occasion from being flattened by an excess of overwrought macho breast-beating.” Whatever You Say, Say Nothing represented a shift in musical direction for Deacon Blue, as producer Jon Kelly was replaced by the duo of Steve Osborne and legendary trance DJ Paul Oakenfold.

Pop as social commentary, with Deacon Blue reflecting the struggles of ordinary folk in Thatcher’s Britain – and particularly their home city of Glasgow – on the likes of Born In A Storm and Town To Be Blamed, while proffering hope on Dignity and The Very Thing. She may have been out of Number 10 for a couple of years, but that didn’t stop Ross venting his anger at Margaret Thatcher on Your Town. It’s about work, not good work, and weather compounding that and things bringing you down,” explained Ross. a b c d e f g h i Colin Larkin, ed. (1997). The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Conciseed.). Virgin Books. p.352/3. ISBN 1-85227-745-9.It’s actually about waiting to be discovered,” said Ross, “spurred on by the unrequited love of an old girlfriend.” Most of When The World Knows Your Name was recorded with Warne Livesey at the helm. Livesey started playing music in London amidst the punk and new wave revolution of the late seventies. Originally a bass player in many bands and on the session scene he soon realised that his main passion was for recording. Although self taught he soon established himself as an up and coming engineer, working with producers such as David Lord, Rhett Davis and Robin Miller. Through his work with the Specials he broke into production by recording projects for their ground breaking two tone record label and other indies such as some bizzare.