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    Bluebells, The

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    From the same new Scottish pop scene that begat Aztec Camera came The Bluebells – a bookish-looking quintet of Merseybeat revisionists.

    Their self-titled debut mini-album (1983) was full of crisp, effervescent guitars and glistening harmonies, proving that The Bluebells had a charming way with 1960s pop lingo.

    Against the odds, the group also turned Brendan Behan’s Irish lament, Patriots Game, into Rubber Soul with a social conscience, softening the song’s sorrowful waltz rhythm with a light acoustic guitar backdrop and subtle pings of piano.

    The single Young At Heart (1984) was written by Bobby Bluebell and Siobhan Fahey (of Bananarama and Shakespears Sister fame). The song returned to the charts in 1993 after it was used in a TV commercial advertising cars.

    Bobby Bluebell (Robert Hodgens)
    Guitar
    David McCluskey
    Drums
    Ken McCluskey
    Vocals, harmonica
    Lawrence Donegan 
    Bass
    Craig Gannon
    Guitar
    Neil Baldwin
    Bass
    Russell Irvine
    Guitar
    Gary Crowley
    Guitar

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