Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop rock band formed in Glasgow during 1985. The line-up of the band consists of vocalists Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh, keyboard player James Prime and drummer Dougie Vipond. The band released their debut album, Raintown, on 1 May 1987 in the United Kingdom and in the U.S. in February 1988. As of 2012, Deacon Blue’s total album sales stood at six million.
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Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop rock band formed in Glasgow during 1985. The line-up of the band consists of vocalists Ricky Ross and Lorraine McIntosh, keyboard player James Prime and drummer Dougie Vipond. The band released their debut album, Raintown, on 1 May 1987 in the United Kingdom and in the U.S. in February 1988. Their second album, When the World Knows Your Name, topped the UK Albums Chart for two weeks, and included \”Real Gone Kid\” which became their first top ten single in the UK Singles Chart. As of 2012, Deacon Blue’s total album sales stood at six million, with twelve UK top 40 singles, along with two UK number one albums. The album City of Love was released on 6 March 2020, with a concert recording of their return to the Barrowlands, Glasgow, released on 31 March 2017. The band’s next album was The Hipsters, in 2012, with the band released another album, A New House, in September 2014, Believers, was released in September 2016, and the band’s fourth album, Whatever You Say, Say Nothing, in 1993, was not as successful as the previous two albums.
In 1994, the band split in 1994, following which the band held a reunion gig, and this led on to a new album, Walking Back Home. The following year saw the band play in front of an estimated 250,000 fans at the free concert on Glasgow Green, which was held to celebrate Glasgow being named that year’s European City of Culture. The next year, they released Ooh Las Vegas, a double album of B-sides, which reached No. 3 in UK Album Chart. In 1991, they returned to the producer’s chair for the album Fellow Hoodlums, which met with more critical approval and peaked at No 2 on the UK album Chart. While this album presented a musical change in style for the band, this album was a much more experimental album.
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