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<blockquote data-quote="Ome" data-source="post: 267026" data-attributes="member: 2">1988 With A Little Help From My Friends/She&#039;s Leaving Home - Wet Wet Wet/Billy Bragg With Cara Tivey[MEDIA=youtube]QHyjXEuyqX4[/MEDIA][MEDIA=youtube]zKWxuCWVZGo[/MEDIA]With A Little Help From My Friends&quot;With a Little Help from My Friends&quot; is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper&#039;s Lonely Hearts Club Band.In 1988, Wet Wet Wet scored their first Number 1 hit with a cover version of the Beatles&#039; &quot;With a Little Help from My Friends&quot;, recorded for the charity ChildLine. Another Beatles song, &quot;She&#039;s Leaving Home&quot;, was equally-billed on the flip side, performed by Billy Bragg.&quot;With a Little Help from My Friends&quot; was ranked number 311 on Rolling Stone&#039;s list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.Billy Bragg isn’t Scottish and doesn’t belong here, but I always preferred this to the Wet’s cover on the flip side.1989 Belfast Child - Simple Minds[MEDIA=youtube]7vhhTvcLoRw[/MEDIA]&quot;Belfast Child&quot; is a song by Simple Minds, first released as the lead track on the Ballad of the Streets EP on 6 February 1989. The EP also included &quot;Mandela Day&quot; (originally its B-side). The record reached number one on the UK Singles Chart as well as in Ireland and the Netherlands, and it became a top-ten hit in Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and West Germany.The song uses the music from the Irish folk song &quot;She Moved Through the Fair&quot;, but has completely different words.Jim Kerr recalled in 1000 UK Number 1 Hits why he used the melody, &quot;I first heard the melody (of She Moved Through The Fair) a few days after the Enniskillen bombing (when a bomb planted by the IRA exploded during a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, killing 12 people and injuring at least 63), and like everybody when you see the images I was sick. In the second part of the song, I&#039;m trying to relate to people in Northern Ireland who lost loved ones. I&#039;m trying to talk about the madness, the sadness and the emptiness. I&#039;m not saying I have any pearls of wisdom, but I have a few questions to ask&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ome, post: 267026, member: 2"] [B][COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)][SIZE=7]1988 [/SIZE][/COLOR][/B] [SIZE=6] [B]With A Little Help From My Friends/[/B][/SIZE][B][SIZE=6]She's Leaving Home - Wet Wet Wet/Billy Bragg With Cara Tivey[/SIZE][/B] [MEDIA=youtube]QHyjXEuyqX4[/MEDIA] [MEDIA=youtube]zKWxuCWVZGo[/MEDIA] With A Little Help From My Friends "With a Little Help from My Friends" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In 1988, Wet Wet Wet scored their first Number 1 hit with a cover version of the Beatles' "With a Little Help from My Friends", recorded for the charity ChildLine. Another Beatles song, "She's Leaving Home", was equally-billed on the flip side, performed by Billy Bragg. "With a Little Help from My Friends" was ranked number 311 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Billy Bragg isn’t Scottish and doesn’t belong here, but I always preferred this to the Wet’s cover on the flip side. [B][COLOR=rgb(44, 130, 201)][SIZE=7]1989 [/SIZE][/COLOR] [SIZE=6]Belfast Child - Simple Minds[/SIZE][/B] [MEDIA=youtube]7vhhTvcLoRw[/MEDIA] "Belfast Child" is a song by Simple Minds, first released as the lead track on the Ballad of the Streets EP on 6 February 1989. The EP also included "Mandela Day" (originally its B-side). The record reached number one on the UK Singles Chart as well as in Ireland and the Netherlands, and it became a top-ten hit in Belgium, New Zealand, Norway, Spain, Switzerland and West Germany. The song uses the music from the Irish folk song "She Moved Through the Fair", but has completely different words. Jim Kerr recalled in 1000 UK Number 1 Hits why he used the melody, "I first heard the melody (of She Moved Through The Fair) a few days after the Enniskillen bombing (when a bomb planted by the IRA exploded during a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, killing 12 people and injuring at least 63), and like everybody when you see the images I was sick. In the second part of the song, I'm trying to relate to people in Northern Ireland who lost loved ones. I'm trying to talk about the madness, the sadness and the emptiness. I'm not saying I have any pearls of wisdom, but I have a few questions to ask" [/QUOTE]

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