I thought, “That’s that.” After the second hour, there were less people talking over the music. It was a difficult time for us because Enya [Brennan] had just left along with our manager/producer, Nicky Ryan, to pursue a solo career. How Clannad made Theme from Harry’s Game. Whenever people ask where that sound comes from I say, “Go to Donegal. Then because of the Troubles it was taken off the radio for a day in case it was offensive, so we sent them One day, we were in a Transit van in Germany; the next we were being picked up in a limo to do Interviews by Dave Simpson. It was released as a single in October 1982 and became a surprise hit, reaching number 5 in the UK Singles Chart the following month and number 2 in the Irish Singles Chart. We wanted something more ethereal than the grim reality of life in Northern Ireland depicted in the series, so wrote a hymn to the Troubles. That’s when we knew the song had touched a nerve.I didn’t think I had much of a voice. Via The Guardian: How Clannad made Theme from Harry’s Game Dave Simplson interviews the band Clannad. "Theme from Harry's Game" is a 1982 song by Clannad commissioned as the theme for Harry's Game, a Yorkshire Television miniseries adapted from a 1975 novel set in The Troubles in Northern Ireland. We were never a political band, but the sentiment that all things must pass inspired the lyrics.There were only three TV channels back then, so we knew people would watch Harry’s Game. The song is credited solely to Paul Brennan (Pól Ó Braonáin) in the The young man will go, and his reputation will follow him, Then the music came on. I would have loved to have been a rock’n’roller, but gradually I realised that I had a different timbre and an ethereal feel, which is very much part of the Clannad sound. Not one person stood up, and the music just played out. All rights reserved. Some translations I post will have been provided by someone other than me, and when that is the case it will be made clear on the pages containing those translations; if you want to copy those translations you must first obtain permission from the people who provided them, as I don't have the right to give you such permissions, and please carefully observe the rights of the … The Brennan and Duggan families were all born in the townland of Dobhar [Dore] in Donegal. The third episode was devastating. We formed the band in 1970 and called ourselves In 1982, Yorkshire TV approached us for some music for a drama series called Ciarán [Brennan, songwriter] and Moya came over, and we wrote Harry’s Game in my house in just a week. © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. You’ll feel the earthiness and the atmosphere.”The Irish Gaelic lyrics for Theme from Harry’s Game derived from a saying in a book of old Irish proverbs that our grandfather had given Ciarán: “Everything that is and will be, will cease to be. The two Duggans were my mother’s younger brothers … The two Duggans were my mother’s younger brothers and contemporaries of ours. We’d just started using electronics and wrote the song on a Before Harry’s Game aired over three nights, we went to a private press showing in London to around 100 people. Noel Edmonds played the song on Radio 1 for the first time and then after the next song he said: “We’ve been inundated with people asking, ‘What was that?’” So he played it again. Lisa Spangenberg . The moon and the stars, youth and beauty.” There’s no solution to war, just people killing each other. Some people thought I was singing, “On the dole, all day”’The Brennan and Duggan families were all born in the townland of Dobhar [Dore] in Donegal. Both main characters died. Pól Brennan, singer-songwriter. ‘The chorus comes from ancient Irish music. The Irish Gaelic lyrics for Theme from Harry’s Game derived from a saying in a book of old Irish proverbs that our grandfather had given Ciarán: “Everything that is and will be, will cease … Bono said that when he first heard it in a car, he had to pull over. The anthology In a Lifetime is out now; the band is scheduled to At the end of the first hour-long episode, the house lights came up, the song played and nobody reacted.
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