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Depeche Mode - Everything Counts

Especially their record sales in the US

Bowie would be the obvious one for me, but there are a couple of less obvious but good choices (I think):

Ian Hunter - All Maerican Alien Boy

John Cale - The Endless Plain Of Fortune

David Byrne - One Fine Day from his great Everything That Happens lp

Graham Nash - Teach Your Children (from CSN&Y - Deja Vu)

Graham Parker has had some success in America and has been living + performing there for decades.

'Temporary Beauty' or 'Dark Side Of The Bright Lights'

Radiohead ~~ 'Creep'

Great shout Julie.

TUESDAY


Jethro Tull have had massive success abroad, particularly in the U.S.

The Aqualung album alone went Triple Platinum in the States, and Gold in Germany.

#5 Thanks

#6 Continued


U.S. - 2 Platinum & 13 Gold albums.

Canada - 6 Gold albums.

U.K. - 2 Gold & 7 Silver albums.


Farm on the Freeway - Jethro Tull


P.S. Please do not talk over the introduction.


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Discopolis ~~ 'Bears Kill Kids'

A youthful Edinburgh trio who have just released their first record in ...

Japan

where they have a burgeoning fan base.

Let GIO be a stepping stone into the UK.

Big second for Norrie's Graham Nash shout....was gonny suggest Marrakesh Express

and

Paul Carrack - Don't Shed a Tear

Colin Hay - Who Can it be Now

Albert Lee - Country Boy



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Martin & James, (James is son of Jimme O'Neill of The Silencers) who've just finished a headline tour of Germany

Martin & James - Tides

or two for the price of one:

Jeff Beck & Joss Stone - I Put a Spell on You

Gaie,

Yon half of a comment that Bryan read oot made no sense whatsoever.

Aye, someone else said the same earlier. I'm not angry or anything, mind.

Cleaning My Gun - Mark Knopfler, 4 times Grammy award winner

The Shakin' Pyramids seemed to get more recognition in France than back here at home!

Tennesee Rock 'n 'Roll ~ Shakin' Pyramids

Tennessee, sorry ya'll!

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Runrig, huge fanbase in Denmark

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Help yourself - Tom Jones
Pick up the pieces - Average White Band
Don't stop - Fleetwood Mac
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
My generation - the Who
Paint it black - the Rollling Stones


Joe
Linlithgow

#11 she also reports for the one show so i am told whilst i am listening to GIO......

#18

And tore apart our happy home...

'Walk on by' - Average White Band

Sheena Easton - but please don't play her.

There are lots like Coldplay, James Morrison, the late great sad Amy Winehouse.

But what about someone a wee bit special and different our very own Donovan who made it in the US and Australia and many other countries please play Catch the Wind. Cheers

Bee Gees - 'You Win Again'

a number of decades ago whilst living on paradise island in the atlantic i came up with the idea of inviting a german schoolteacher to stay for a few weeks.
he arrived in his mercedes benz after a drive from berlin during which his exhaust fell off at canterbury (the devil is in the detail).
what ah would say is that havin' a german stayin' for a couple of weeks is a learning curve.
now i pride myself in rustling up a decent 'roll and square sausage' but what peter was looking for was 'tinned campbell's meatballs'....yes that is my jaw you heard hitting the kitchen floor.
on arrival peter enquired if there was 'mr. deisel' on the island. i had to inform him that we were just coming to terms with the wheel.(these were the days when if the ferry was late into oban due to excess time in loading livestock, cal-mac would put on taxis to take passengers to glasgow!!).
so peter didn't use the merc very often.
however one day he invited us for a drive to a beach in the merc.
must say , it was very nice too.....all that wood panelling and vorsprung technik.
he then reached for the in-car tape 'on-switch'......and you know that way you have to look out a car window at the atlantic and bite yer tongue at the same time? (if ever a time OMG was invented it mustave been then).
peter said that the singer was huge in germany and that he was his favourite singer (more staring into the blue yonder).......
this is what came on...................

'the young ones'.........................cliff

cheers frae the dale

The Beat are known as 'The English Beat' in America:
'Too Nice To Talk To':
'Hands off She's Mine':

The Daughter has a French version of 'Supreme' by Robbie Williams on a sort of Now That's What I Call...French hits compilation CD:


Lily Allen's popular there too. As already documented here, they don't edit the swearie words.

Joe Cocker's won a Grammy - not for 'Unchain My Heart' but I like it better than that song with Jennifer Warnes

The WHO went global. And there is a song by them who hardly ever gets airplay : 'New song'
featuring on their album 'Who are you'.

.... or David BOWIE
suggestion: 'Teenage wildlife' with both Robert FRIPP and Carlos ALOMAR playing guitars
or 'It's no game' part 1 with the Japanese singer.

Theme suggestion: One which I believe has not yet been suggested by anybody:
the financial crisis with all it means in terms of unemployment, poverty, etc...
possible tracks: 'industrial disease' by DIRE STRAITS
'Shoplifters of the world unite' by SMITHS
'Play it all night long' by Warren ZEVON
'Calm Animals' by FIXX
'Train running low on soul coal' by XTC
.....

Well, The Beatles led the charge...

I Wanna Hold Your Hand - The Beatles

our popular music business was hitherto a plae imitation of Tin Pan Alley, - whose tunes are cuirrently being sentimentally recalled by Paul from his childhood.

35 million album sales in two years.....takes some beating... Badge - Cream

I was driving a private hire taxi as a 19 year old student in the summer of 1974 ( impossible these days). Radio 1 hooked up with an American station, played them some music and asked where they thought it had come from. Various suggestions of American cities were put forward but they were genuinely taken aback to discover the answer was Dundee. The music was:

You Got It - Average White Band

I remember that Swing Out Sister - Breakout was massive in Japan as is Julia Fordam - Where Does The Time Go who was produced, incredeibly by a Radio Clyde DJ called Bill Padley - who I met when he made a radio commerical for my firm back in the 80's.

10CC were also huge in Japan.. Blackmail which as we know contains Eric Stewart's finest moment.

that'll do just now

regardez youse

henri

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Wozzat then?

Massive in Germany and Brazil ...

Nazareth ~~ 'This Flight Tonight'

Big seconds for the massive chew sets as suggested by Julie at #25 and also for #33, any Nazareth track will do

To Sir with love - Lulu

This was Billboard's single of the year for 1967, having been #1 for five weeks in the USA. However in Lulu's native UK it was only ever a B-side to her #11 hit "Let's Pretend."

The fact that my description above matches the statement on Songfacts is purely coincidental

DC

#33

To think we once worked with Big Dan's Sister-in-Law! 8-0

U2 (klaxon) will be out given it's Brits Abroad?

BTW, what constitutes BIG? Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Second B I A & Depeche Mode, Route 66 please.

Bush are from London and found pretty big success in the US but never seemed to quite make it over hear.

Glycerine - Bush

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Will never forget. Quite a gal she was ... regailed us with many a tale of 'on-the-road' jinks ...

*here

Manics - very popular in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Japan & Czech Republic (amazing the info I just have at my fingertips)

All We Make is Entertainment - Manic Street Preachers

- a fab tune that deserves to be heard in Scotland as well

Can't Find My Way Home - Blind Faith (Eric Clapton, Steve Winwood, Ginger Baker)

from Blind Faith, no1 US Billboard 1969

Backing Depeche Mode, Radiohead, Manics and probably a lot of the others, too - too many to mention.

Leaving out a lot of favourites and asking for just the one, seeing as I know he's well-loved on the blog....... ;o)

George Michael Too Funky

Also a quick mention for a band I'm not a huge fan of but couldn't help but reappraise on hearing a fascinating radio program all about how massive they are now in India, selling out tours and with a very ardent and loyal fanbase. Bruce Dickinson also came across very well.
Iron Maiden Run To The Hills

Of cfourse the guy who really cracked it was Reg:

Elton John - This Train Don't Stop Here Anymore

the song and video tell the story,

Petula Clark - Downtown
Was never a fan of Peculiar but love this song....it's a secret why, oh that was last night wasn't it?

Tears For Fears - Shout

Razorlight - America

All three big hits over the pond.

Al.

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Rod is a brat

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I can't stand the Brits... bring back "Sounds" readers poll!