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The Proclaimers - Life With You
| Allmusic | | Sometimes a band finds its career virtually on hold. The Proclaimers had enjoyed a couple of major hit albums and especially two very memorable hit singles in the 1980s, "Letter from America" and "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," but the hits dried up and the two identical twins Charlie and Craig Reid had carried on regardless, churning out their unique brand of guitar-based folk-rock with witty and clever lyrics. In fact, their previous three albums had all failed to reach the Top 60 in the album charts and only a belated compilation, The Best Of..., released in 2002, brought them briefly back to the Top 30. Then in 2007 their song "I'm Gonna Be" was chosen by the team behind the Comic Relief charity as the unofficial single (the official one being the Girls Aloud-Sugababes collaboration "Walk This Way"), and just like two years previously, it was the unofficial song that captured the public imagination and became the bigger hit, in fact reaching number one on the singles chart for three weeks in the spring....full text |
| | Boston | | Few names are as fitting as the Proclaimers' handle. Comprising 45-year-old twin brothers Charlie and Craig Reid, the Scottish pop duo is best remembered for the '80s hit "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)," as strident a declaration of love ever mustered in the pop-music canon. In 2007, the song was reprised for the UK charity Comic Relief, recharging the Reids' careers and landing them a major-label deal for this, their seventh album. There's no doubt about it, though, as in-your-face as some of these songs are, the Proclaimers are at their best when, well, proclaiming and protesting vehemently over simple melodies and a stomping march of a beat....full text |
| | Musicomh | | The bespectacled Reid twins have often met with stifled titters. It's easy to remember the slightly late '80s cheesiness of I'm Gonna Be 500 Miles and Letter from America but, when you think about it, they were really good songs. So good in fact that Comic Relief can adopt them as their official single and it doesn't seem to do anyone's career any harm....full text |
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