Apart from the Blue Nile, who are one of the legendary groups of the the subgenre, the Scots also produced Deacon Blue, a Glasweigan group named after a tune by Steely Dan (a noteworthy sophisti-pop influence). They do show hints on their debut as an alternately below-par Waterboys, Prefab Sprout and longways inferior Blue Nile etc. The album, written largely by lead singer Ricky Ross, was released in the United Kingdom on 1 May 1987. I’m an expat now but always say my nationality is Glaswegian and though I don’t like hardly anything else Deacon Blue ever did on the back of this, their debut album, I still hold a soft spot for it, so evocative is it of a certain time and place in my life. After a brief opener / scene setter, the energetic title track gets proceedings off to a good start.

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It was announced in April 2014 that their seventh studio album, A New House, would be released on 8 September that year. Due to Deacon Blue's part-time status after reformation, Ross released additional solo albums in 2002 and 2005 and has written for and with other recording artists.

in the UK Albums Chart and was one of the year's top sellers, while " I Was Right and You Were Wrong" and a re-release of " Dignity" saw the band re-enter the Top 20 of the UK Singles Chart. Taking their name from the 1977 Steely Dan song Deacon Blues, the band came together following lead vocalist Ricky Ross’ move from Dundee to Glasgow. It wasn’t long before Dougie Vipond quit the group, hoping to pursue a career in television in 1994 - which saw the band split.

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The album charted at number one in their native Scotland, [12] number four in the United Kingdom [13] and peaked at number fifty in Spain. Real Gone Kid is evergreen, a song so vibrant that no number of ad campaigns can kill it, while Fergus Sings the Blues and Dignity are greeted wildly by an amped-up crowd. While it moody atmospherics are typical sophisti-pop fare, they have more of a youthful vibe than many other artists on this list, offering coming-of-age tales for Scots in the 1980s. It is the one song that hits hardest and a lot of the middle stretch of the record is in comparison merely very only pleasant.Because they try to be Prefab Sprout, and they succeed almost fully, therefore their music is great. A new book about the Glasgow rock band Deacon Blue has revealed the lengths a photographer went to in capturing shots for their debut album cover. The city that the album's title refers to is Glasgow and the cover art of the album is a photograph (by the Scottish-Italian photographer Oscar Marzaroli) of the River Clyde's docks taken from Kelvingrove Park. The album failed to reach the same level of commercial success in the United Kingdom that the band experienced with their previous album, City of Love, with the album debuting at number 23 on the charts, spending only one week before dropping out of the UK Top 100 album charts. The band performed at Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium, as the pre-match entertainment for the Rugby league Super League Grand Final on 14 October 2006, and continued on to a full UK tour in November.