{"id":112965,"date":"2022-06-08T12:59:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T17:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=112965"},"modified":"2022-06-08T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T18:00:19","slug":"kbs-look-back-at-the-80s-music-scene-big-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=112965","title":{"rendered":"KB&#8217;s Look Back At The 80&#8217;s Music Scene: Big Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1545664804358300\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/script><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block; text-align: center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1545664804358300\" data-ad-slot=\"8616314829\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=112965\" rel=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=112965\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-112957 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Big-Country-300x199.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Big-Country-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Big-Country.jpeg 730w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>By Karen Beishuizen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Picture this: <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dunfermline, Fife. Scotland in 1981.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Adamson, Bruce Watson, Tony Butler, and Mark Brzezicki form Big Country.<\/p>\n<p>The first single &#8220;Harvest Home&#8221; was released in 1982 which was a moderate success but never reached the chart. Their next single &#8220;Fields of Fire&#8221; was a Top Ten hit in 1983 followed by the album &#8220;The Crossing&#8221;. It was a Top 20 Billboard success in America with their only US Top 40 hit &#8220;In a Big Country&#8221;.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The second album &#8220;Steeltown&#8221; entered the UK Albums Chart at No. 1 in 1984 with 3 hit singles on it. Christmas 1984 the band participated in the Band Aid charity record &#8220;Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In 1986 &#8220;The Seer&#8221; was released: the band&#8217;s third album with the amazing song &#8220;Look Away&#8221; on it. One of my all-time favorite songs. It was number one in Ireland and their biggest hit to this date.<\/p>\n<p>On 26 November 2001, Stuart Adamson was reported missing by his ex-wife and numerous appeals were put on the band&#8217;s website for information and appeals to Adamson himself to call home.<\/p>\n<p>On 16 December he was found dead in his hotel room in Honolulu. According to the police report he hanged himself with an electrical cord from a pole in a wardrobe. His body was flown back to Scotland for cremation. Condolence messages were publicly read out at the memorial service and one belonged to U2&#8217;s The Edge who said that Stuart had written the songs he wished U2 could write.<\/p>\n<p>Fast Forward to 2022:<\/p>\n<p>Big Country are still touring with Bruce Watson and Mark Brzezicki as the two only original members left.<\/p>\n<p>The current line-up:<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Watson &#8211; Guitar<br \/>\nMark Brezezicki &#8211; Drums<br \/>\nSimon Hough &#8211; Vocals<br \/>\nJamie Watson &#8211; Guitar<br \/>\nGil Allan &#8211; Bass<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Karen Beishuizen Picture this: Dunfermline, Fife. Scotland in 1981. Stuart Adamson, Bruce Watson, Tony Butler, and Mark Brzezicki form Big Country. The first single &#8220;Harvest Home&#8221; was released in 1982 which was a moderate success but never reached the chart. Their next single &#8220;Fields of Fire&#8221; was a Top Ten hit in 1983 followed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":112957,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28132,17984],"tags":[29054],"class_list":["post-112965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns-by-karen-beishuizen","category-entertainment-news","tag-kbs-look-back-at-the-80s-music-scene-big-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112965"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/112957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}