a recent one but a good one
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Bobby Sands used the tune of this song for âBack Home In Derryâ.
Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
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Iâd love to hear Richard Ashcroft sing a version of this 1997 classic - itâs very reminiscent of his âLonely Soulsâ collaboration with UNKLE , which I might as well include too.
Lamb - Gorecki
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbUfDXrWgbs
UNKLE featuring Richard Ashcroft - Lonely Souls
The lyrics of this were written by Woody Guthrie but never recorded until Billy Bragg and Wilco did so for âMermaid Avenueâ, an album of previously unrecorded lyrics by Guthrie, in 1998.
Billy Bragg and Wilco - Ingrid Bergman
I would have known that song first time round in the mid 70s. I always assumed the wreck was historical. I was astounded when I discovered on the internet one night a couple of years that the wreck was in the early 1970s.
November 1975.
Lightfoot had the song written and recorded within a month.
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Bob Geldof emulated Lightfootâs jumping on tragedy for artâs sake when he wrote âI Donât Like Mondaysâ about a shooting spree in San Diego and it was at number one within six months.
As did I when I wrote a song about Katy Frenchâs death within a month of it and we had it recorded within three months. It didnât quite get to number one, though.