Deacon blue what do you get

Deacon blue played tribute to the best song writing due ever. They did them proud. Love this ep. This is by far the best version for me though. Omg Can't believe I found this video That's me and my Dad sitting together on front row!!! I was like 10!!!! Anderson Oliveira yeah that's me in shades and dress on front row!!!!

This song belonged to the soundtrack of a popular soap opera here in Brazil. Kele Davidson you're Scottish? I love Scotland. It's one of the places I have to visit before I'm gone. Have a nice second half of Simply beautiful. Atmospheric, ethereal, sublime and definitely one of the best songs of , of which there were many.

It was the leading song from the Burt Bacharach EP. This is one of that singular cases when a rendition sounds far away better than the original song.

I think David and Bacharach were proud of it. Deacon Blue got the real feeling of the lyric and made it definitely right. Theme song from the Brazilian telenovela soap opera "Barriga de Aluguel". I remember crying to this, the key words being "until tomorrow". Guess what? Yep that was me Any Glaswegians remember this video being made or performing in it? Also, does anyone know the location? The Pylons in the background is I think the pylon line that you see crossing the Balmore Road at Lambhill that continues out towards Bardowie and beyond.

The high flats in the video are likely demolished by now. Does anyone know the Paddy who had the giant menchie on the wall? I was there this day as a young child. Thanks v. I'm off to check it out on Google Earth now! I've added a pin on Google Earth. Anyone searching 'Firhill Stadium' will see the location and can figure it out using the landmarks they see.

You should have been playing with your friends , not glued to the tv , bet your over weight too right. Deacon Blues record company apparently were a bit surprised when DB said they wanted to cover this song. They didn't think it would be a hit.

They were wrong. They should have had more faith in DB. If they did maybe DB would have had more success. Great song though. Summer and this got to Number 2 in the chart but was denied the top spot by Timmy Mallet, a musical travesty if ever there was one! Although Mr Mallet did save a drowning man once, so some perspective is due. Perhaps the record company should have pushed it more as it deserved to be number one as the finest interpretation of the song I have heard and it would, as it turns out, have been the band's only number one.

The video cleverly uses Pierrot to illustrate the pathos of the song and the Glasgow backdrop in the summer adds to the realism. Ricky Ross and the band are great ambassadors for Scotland and he has the best stage presence I have ever seen at a concert. They are still going strong in and although we are all a little more tired and careworn than in the eighties when Deacon Blue announced their presence with two sizzling albums, there is little difference in the power of the performances.

I would recommend the SECC concert filmed over two nights in and available on the DVD singles collection, which shows the band firing on all cylinders. It is also communal singing by the crowd at its best from an era sadly all too distant now. Also worth checking out for the politically minded is Ricky's attack on politicians for letting down Scotland at the Big Day concert on Glasgow Green in It sounds like an attack on the Tories but he takes aim at Labour for failed promises-there's no doubting his passion.

Definitely, absolutely agree. Bombalurina was a big pile of shite. Almost as much of a travesty as Ultravox and Joe Dolce. However, there is something special about reaching the number 2 spot. Too many number 1s have been played to death to the point where you hate it. I know it's not always the case, but I'm speaking generally.

Reaching the runner up spot just gives it that little extra preservation. I haven't heard this for years and am glad. It gives me goosebumps just listening to it again. Shame the drowning man wasn't saved but we lost Timmy Mallet in the process It's happened a few times where the number 1 song is crap and the number 2 was a million times better.

I'm still listening to the three songs I mentioned but is anyone listening to the crap number 1's that kept them out. I don't think so, do you? I love this song too much!!!!! Thank you, Deacon Blue!!!!!! This is an awful version. Why do singers these days have to ooze artificial sweetener and fake emotion on everything?

The original by Bobbie Gentry was cool, understated and perfect. Aidan McIntosh I love this cover. Gives me goosebumps. Bacharach wrote gems. I really liked "Chocolate Girl". But my Wife loathed it then and still does. Lovely version and deserved a number 1 spot to but Bobbie Gentry's version which reached number in in uk charts back in will always be my favourite.

Best version of this song. Good gig monday, you blew us away same as last year! Top band, can'y praise Deacon Blue enough. What do you get when you fall in love A girl with a pin to burst your bubble Thats what you get for all your trouble I'll never fall in love again.

Michael Kelly. Deacon Blue would like you to contribute to their first official book, sharing your own personal recollections of how you fell for the band. It could be a memory of watching them live over the years, chronicling the experience of the thrill of seeing one of the best acts in the business.

Or it could be about the songs that are forever tethered to a time and place in your life, the track you fell in love to, the album that soundtracked a period of your life, the songs from a band which have a special place in your life, whatever the reason. Photo: Barrowlands , Alan Wylie. Were you there in the beginning? Or did you fall for the songs and the unique live experience sometime on their remarkable journey over the land and the city in the years since?

Deacon Blue would love for you to contribute your own personal memories. Feel free to include any photographs of you with the band, or images of ticket stubs, merchandise, etc. As the Gorbals was always a slightly mythical place for me I became fascinated with the idea that in the heart of Glasgow such a strong symbol of love endured. Even when I lived here first, the old tenements of that part of town had been pulled down and sixties high-rise flats had replaced them.

No one seemed to love the flats and everyone I spoke to agreed that the demolition of the old area had been unnecessary as the housing stock could have been refurbished and the community kept in place.

Instead people were scattered across Glasgow and beyond and one of the strongest, tight-knit neighbourhoods of the city was destroyed. They talked about Crown Street and Cumberland Street as the centre of their world in the early sixties. A place of refuge, family and welcome to which they always returned on any visit.

As the idea nagged away at me I wanted to bring these two threads together. I wanted to celebrate the symbolic heart of a city which has been my true home for thirty-five plus years with the hope of those overheard childhood hymns. I wanted to celebrate the possibility of mercy, love and kindness being not just dreams of paradise, but ideals we need to believe in if we want our world to be a better place for everyone.

In short, we imagine the future to be the best of what our imaginations can contain. In turn our hope is not in the consolation of life after death but in the true expectation of life before it. The City of Love was on that far shore. Rooted in this dark, soot-drenched jumble of houses where light had to fight to break-in to the back courts was a heart of love which, despite all the efforts to diminish or remove it, continued to beat.

For this reason and also because we loved the studio there, we wanted to make our record in The Gorbals, in the heart of the City of Love. We wanted to make a record which was honest, raw and sounded like the band we have become.

With Deacon Blue I think we all take every event: record, tour, TV, radio show or film as an unexpected bonus to the life we once lived. Happily, we now know that is not true. That it came out, we are grateful and very thankful to all of you who confounded our expectations and gave us our best chart position in twenty-six years. We are finally beginning to believe everyone is going to get to hear these songs later this year. On behalf of us all, thank you. Ricky x. You can pre-order here.

It is with sadness that we have to tell you our Cities of Love tour has been postponed to Tickets for all the rescheduled shows remain valid and your ticket agent will be in contact regarding your booking.