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The Pogues Is A Celtic Punk Band From London Formed In 1982 And Fronted By Shane MacGowan. The Band Reached International Prominence In The 1980s And Early 1990s. MacGowan Left The Band In 1991 Due To Drinking Problems But The Band Continued First With Joe Strummer And Then With Spider Stacy On Vocals Before Breaking Up In 1996. The Band Including MacGowan Reformed In 2001 And Has Been Playing Regularly Ever Since. While The Band Has Not Released An Album Since 1996 They Are Credited With Inventing Celtic Punk And Have Had A Large Influence On The Larger Celtic Fusion Scene. The Band Was Awarded The Life-Time Achievement Award At The Annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards In February 2006. The Pogues Were Founded In King's Cross A District In North London In 1982 As Pogue Mahone - "pogue Mahone" Being The Anglicisation Of The Irish Póg Mo Thóin Meaning "kiss My Arse". The Band Specialised In Irish Folk Music Often Playing With The Energy Of The Punk Rock Scene From Which Several Of The Members Had Their Roots. Their Politically-Tinged Music Was Reminiscent Of The Clash With Whom They Played Joe Strummer Produced One Of Their Albums And Even Joined The Group Briefly And Used Traditional Irish Instruments Such As The Tin Whistle Banjo Cittern Mandolin Accordion And More. In The Later Incarnations Of The Band After The Departure Of Shane MacGowan Electronic Instruments Such As The Electric Guitar Would Become More Prominent. The First Of The Pogues' Albums Red Roses For Me Borrows Much From The Punk Tradition Of MacGowan's Previous Band The Nipple Erectors Later Dubbed The Nips . Band History
Shane MacGowan Vocals James Fearnley Accordion And Spider Stacy Tin Whistle Were The Original Members Of The Pogues In The Days When They Busked On The Streets Of London. Before The Rest Of The Group Formed MacGowan And Stacy Were Rumoured To Have Played Impromptu Performances On Street Corners And City Buses Which Attracted Local Interest To Their Talent. They Later Added Jeremy 'Jem' Finer Guitar Banjo Cait O'Riordan Bass And Andrew Ranken Drums . The Band Rapidly Developed A Reputation Started Releasing Independent Work And Ended Up Opening For The Clash On Tour In 1984. Shortening Their Name To "The Pogues" Due To Lack Of Radio Play For The Curse In Their Name They Released Their First Album Red Roses For Me That October. Phil Chevron Guitar Joined The Group Soon After Then With The Aid Of Punk And New Wave Forefather Elvis Costello They Recorded The Follow Up Rum Sodomy & The Lash In 1985 The Album Title Is A Famous Comment Attributed Probably Falsely To Winston Churchill And Others In Describing The Traditions Of The British Royal Navy . The Album Cover Featured The Raft Of The Medusa Though The Faces On The Characters In Géricault's Painting Have Been Replaced With Those Of The Band Members. While The First Album Had Featured A Higher Percentage Of Traditional Songs Shane MacGowan Came Into His Own As A Songwriter With This Disc Offering Up Poetic Story-Telling Such As "The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn" And "The Old Main Drag " As Well As Definitive Interpretations Of Ewan MacColl's "Dirty Old Town" And Eric Bogle's "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda " The Latter Of Which Has Become More Popular Than The Original Recording. The Band Failed To Take Advantage Of The Momentum Created By The Strong Artistic And Commercial Success Of Their Second Album. They First Refused To Record Another Album Offering Up The 4 Track EP Poguetry In Motion Instead O'Riordan Married Costello And Left The Band To Be Replaced By Bassist Darryl Hunt And They Added A Multi-Instrumentalist In Terry Woods Formerly Of Steeleye Span. Looming Over The Band At This Period As Throughout Their Entire Career Was The Increasingly Erratic Behaviour Of Their Vocalist Principal Songwriter And Creative Visionary Shane MacGowan. Success & Breakup
The Band Remained Stable Enough To Record If I Should Fall From Grace With God In 1988 With Its Christmas Hit Duet With Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale Of New York" And 1989's Peace And Love. The Band Was At The Peak Of Its Commercial Success With Both Albums Making The Top 5 In The UK Nos. 3 And 5 Respectively But MacGowan Was Spiralling Out Of Control. Following Their Next Album Hell's Ditch MacGowan And The Band Parted Company In 1991. With His Departure The Band Was Thrown Into A State Of Flux. Without Their Singer Vocal Duties Were For A Time Handled By Joe Strummer Before Stacy Finally Took Over Permanently. Two Politely Received Albums Followed The First Of Which Waiting For Herb Contained The Band's Third And Final Top Twenty Single "Tuesday Morning" Which Became Their Best Selling Single Internationally. In 1996 The Pogues Disbanded With Just Three Members Remaining. Post Breakup
Shane MacGowan Founded Shane MacGowan And The Popes In 1994. They Recorded Two Studio Albums In The Period Up To Their Split In 2002. MacGowan's Autobiography A Drink With Shane MacGowan Co-Written With His Journalist Girlfriend Victoria Mary Clarke Appeared In 2001. During This Time The Three Other Long-Term Members Of The Pogues Spider Stacy Andrew Ranken And Darryl Hunt Played Together Briefly As The Vendettas. Reunion
The Band Including MacGowan Re-Formed For A Christmas Tour In 2001 And Performed 9 Shows In The UK In December 2004 . In 2002 Q Magazine Named The Pogues As One Of The "50 Bands To See Before You Die". Also In December 2004 VH1 Conducted A Poll To Find The Best Christmas Song Ever With "Fairytale Of New York" Coming Number One With 2 650 Of The 10 000 Votes Cast - Over 25%. In Early 2005 VH1 Conducted Another Poll To Find The 100 Greatest Number Ones That Never Were With The Pogues Coming In At Number 27. In July 2005 The Band - Again Including MacGowan - Played At The Annual Guilfest Festival In Guildford Before Flying Out To Japan Where They Played Three Dates. Japan Is The Last Place They All Played Together Before MacGowan Was Originally Sacked In 1991 And They Have A Strong Following There. They Played A Date In Spain In Early September. The Reunited Pogues Played Dates In The UK With Support From The Dropkick Murphys In Late 2005 And Re-Released Their 1987 Christmas Classic "Fairytale Of New York" On 19th December Which Went Straight In At #3 In The UK Singles Charts On Christmas Day 2005 Showing The Song's Enduring Popularity. On December 22nd 2005 The BBC Broadcast A Live Performance Recorded The Previous Week On The Jonathan Ross Christmas Show With Katie Melua. "Fairytale Of New York" Was Voted The Greatest Christmas Record Of All Time For The Second Year Running In A Poll By UK Music Channel VH1 With "Fairytale Of New York" Taking In A Whopping 39% Of The Overall Vote. The Band Was Awarded The Life-Time Achievement Award At The Annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards In February 2006. In March 2011 The Pogues Played A Six-City/ten-Show Sell-Out US Tour Titled "A Parting Glass With The Pogues". In August 2012 The Pogues Undertook A 30th Anniversary European Tour. Discography
Albums
Red Roses For Me - 1984 #89 UK Rum Sodomy And The Lash - 1985 #13 UK Poguetry In Motion EP - 1986 #29
If I Should Fall From Grace With God - 1988 #3 UK #88 US Peace And Love - 1989 #5 UK Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah EP - 1990 #43 UK Hell's Ditch - 1990 #11 UK Waiting For Herb - 1993 #20 UK Pogue Mahone - 1996
The Best Of The Pogues - 1991 #11 UK The Rest Of The Best - 1992 The Very Best Of The Pogues - 2001 #18 The Ultimate Collection Including Live At The Brixton Academy - 2001 #15 UK Dirty Old Town The Platinum Collection
Frogtoon Music - Song Info: And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
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"And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" Is A Song Written By Scottish-Born Singer-Songwriter Eric Bogle In 1971. The Song Describes The Futility Gruesome Reality And The Destruction Of War While Criticising Those Who Seek To Glorify It. This Is Exemplified In The Song By The Account Of A Young Australian Soldier On His Maiming During The Battle Of Gallipoli During The First World War.
The Pogues Cover Is Perhaps The Best-Known Version Critic Robert Christgau Wrote That Vocalist Shane MacGowan "never Lets Go Of It For A Second He Tests The Flavor Of Each Word Before Spitting It Out." The Song Incorporates The Melody And A Few Lines Of "Waltzing Matilda's" Lyrics At Its Conclusion. Many Cover Versions Of The Song Have Been Performed And Recorded. The Song Is Often Praised For Its Haunting Imagery Of The Devastation At Gallipoli. The Protagonist A Rover Before The War In The Story Loses His Legs In The Battle And Later Notes The Passing Of Other Veterans With Time As Younger Generations Become Apathetic To The Veterans And Their Cause. In May 2001 The Australasian Performing Right Association APRA As Part Of Its 75th Anniversary Celebrations Named "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" As One Of The Top 30 Australian Songs Of All Time The First Release Of The Song Was By John Currie On The Australian Label M7 In 1975. Cover Versions Of The Song Have Been Performed And Recorded By Joan Baez Priscilla Herdman Liam Clancy Martin Curtis The Dubliners Ronnie Drew Danny Doyle Slim Dusty The Fenians Mike Harding Jolie Holland Seamus Kennedy Johnny Logan And Friends John Allan Cameron John McDermott Midnight Oil Christy Moore The Pogues The Skids June Tabor John Williamson The Bushwackers And The Bluegrass Band The Kruger Brothers Redgum Tickawinda On Album "Rosemary Lane" . Garrison Keillor Has Also Performed It On His Radio Show A Prairie Home Companion When ANZAC Day April 25 Has Fallen On A Saturday.
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The Pogues Is A Celtic Punk Band From London Formed In 1982 And Fronted By Shane MacGowan. The Band Reached International Prominence In The 1980s And Early 1990s. MacGowan Left The Band In 1991 Due To Drinking Problems But The Band Continued First With Joe Strummer And Then With Spider Stacy On Vocals Before Breaking Up In 1996. The Band Including MacGowan Reformed In 2001 And Has Been Playing Regularly Ever Since. While The Band Has Not Released An Album Since 1996 They Are Credited With Inventing Celtic Punk And Have Had A Large Influence On The Larger Celtic Fusion Scene. The Band Was Awarded The Life-Time Achievement Award At The Annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards In February 2006. The Pogues Were Founded In King's Cross A District In North London In 1982 As Pogue Mahone - "pogue Mahone" Being The Anglicisation Of The Irish Póg Mo Thóin Meaning "kiss My Arse". The Band Specialised In Irish Folk Music Often Playing With The Energy Of The Punk Rock Scene From Which Several Of The Members Had Their Roots. Their Politically-Tinged Music Was Reminiscent Of The Clash With Whom They Played Joe Strummer Produced One Of Their Albums And Even Joined The Group Briefly And Used Traditional Irish Instruments Such As The Tin Whistle Banjo Cittern Mandolin Accordion And More. In The Later Incarnations Of The Band After The Departure Of Shane MacGowan Electronic Instruments Such As The Electric Guitar Would Become More Prominent. The First Of The Pogues' Albums Red Roses For Me Borrows Much From The Punk Tradition Of MacGowan's Previous Band The Nipple Erectors Later Dubbed The Nips . Band History
Shane MacGowan Vocals James Fearnley Accordion And Spider Stacy Tin Whistle Were The Original Members Of The Pogues In The Days When They Busked On The Streets Of London. Before The Rest Of The Group Formed MacGowan And Stacy Were Rumoured To Have Played Impromptu Performances On Street Corners And City Buses Which Attracted Local Interest To Their Talent. They Later Added Jeremy 'Jem' Finer Guitar Banjo Cait O'Riordan Bass And Andrew Ranken Drums . The Band Rapidly Developed A Reputation Started Releasing Independent Work And Ended Up Opening For The Clash On Tour In 1984. Shortening Their Name To "The Pogues" Due To Lack Of Radio Play For The Curse In Their Name They Released Their First Album Red Roses For Me That October. Phil Chevron Guitar Joined The Group Soon After Then With The Aid Of Punk And New Wave Forefather Elvis Costello They Recorded The Follow Up Rum Sodomy & The Lash In 1985 The Album Title Is A Famous Comment Attributed Probably Falsely To Winston Churchill And Others In Describing The Traditions Of The British Royal Navy . The Album Cover Featured The Raft Of The Medusa Though The Faces On The Characters In Géricault's Painting Have Been Replaced With Those Of The Band Members. While The First Album Had Featured A Higher Percentage Of Traditional Songs Shane MacGowan Came Into His Own As A Songwriter With This Disc Offering Up Poetic Story-Telling Such As "The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn" And "The Old Main Drag " As Well As Definitive Interpretations Of Ewan MacColl's "Dirty Old Town" And Eric Bogle's "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda " The Latter Of Which Has Become More Popular Than The Original Recording. The Band Failed To Take Advantage Of The Momentum Created By The Strong Artistic And Commercial Success Of Their Second Album. They First Refused To Record Another Album Offering Up The 4 Track EP Poguetry In Motion Instead O'Riordan Married Costello And Left The Band To Be Replaced By Bassist Darryl Hunt And They Added A Multi-Instrumentalist In Terry Woods Formerly Of Steeleye Span. Looming Over The Band At This Period As Throughout Their Entire Career Was The Increasingly Erratic Behaviour Of Their Vocalist Principal Songwriter And Creative Visionary Shane MacGowan. Success & Breakup
The Band Remained Stable Enough To Record If I Should Fall From Grace With God In 1988 With Its Christmas Hit Duet With Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale Of New York" And 1989's Peace And Love. The Band Was At The Peak Of Its Commercial Success With Both Albums Making The Top 5 In The UK Nos. 3 And 5 Respectively But MacGowan Was Spiralling Out Of Control. Following Their Next Album Hell's Ditch MacGowan And The Band Parted Company In 1991. With His Departure The Band Was Thrown Into A State Of Flux. Without Their Singer Vocal Duties Were For A Time Handled By Joe Strummer Before Stacy Finally Took Over Permanently. Two Politely Received Albums Followed The First Of Which Waiting For Herb Contained The Band's Third And Final Top Twenty Single "Tuesday Morning" Which Became Their Best Selling Single Internationally. In 1996 The Pogues Disbanded With Just Three Members Remaining. Post Breakup
Shane MacGowan Founded Shane MacGowan And The Popes In 1994. They Recorded Two Studio Albums In The Period Up To Their Split In 2002. MacGowan's Autobiography A Drink With Shane MacGowan Co-Written With His Journalist Girlfriend Victoria Mary Clarke Appeared In 2001. During This Time The Three Other Long-Term Members Of The Pogues Spider Stacy Andrew Ranken And Darryl Hunt Played Together Briefly As The Vendettas. Reunion
The Band Including MacGowan Re-Formed For A Christmas Tour In 2001 And Performed 9 Shows In The UK In December 2004 . In 2002 Q Magazine Named The Pogues As One Of The "50 Bands To See Before You Die". Also In December 2004 VH1 Conducted A Poll To Find The Best Christmas Song Ever With "Fairytale Of New York" Coming Number One With 2 650 Of The 10 000 Votes Cast - Over 25%. In Early 2005 VH1 Conducted Another Poll To Find The 100 Greatest Number Ones That Never Were With The Pogues Coming In At Number 27. In July 2005 The Band - Again Including MacGowan - Played At The Annual Guilfest Festival In Guildford Before Flying Out To Japan Where They Played Three Dates. Japan Is The Last Place They All Played Together Before MacGowan Was Originally Sacked In 1991 And They Have A Strong Following There. They Played A Date In Spain In Early September. The Reunited Pogues Played Dates In The UK With Support From The Dropkick Murphys In Late 2005 And Re-Released Their 1987 Christmas Classic "Fairytale Of New York" On 19th December Which Went Straight In At #3 In The UK Singles Charts On Christmas Day 2005 Showing The Song's Enduring Popularity. On December 22nd 2005 The BBC Broadcast A Live Performance Recorded The Previous Week On The Jonathan Ross Christmas Show With Katie Melua. "Fairytale Of New York" Was Voted The Greatest Christmas Record Of All Time For The Second Year Running In A Poll By UK Music Channel VH1 With "Fairytale Of New York" Taking In A Whopping 39% Of The Overall Vote. The Band Was Awarded The Life-Time Achievement Award At The Annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards In February 2006. In March 2011 The Pogues Played A Six-City/ten-Show Sell-Out US Tour Titled "A Parting Glass With The Pogues". In August 2012 The Pogues Undertook A 30th Anniversary European Tour. Discography
Albums
Red Roses For Me - 1984 #89 UK Rum Sodomy And The Lash - 1985 #13 UK Poguetry In Motion EP - 1986 #29
If I Should Fall From Grace With God - 1988 #3 UK #88 US Peace And Love - 1989 #5 UK Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah EP - 1990 #43 UK Hell's Ditch - 1990 #11 UK Waiting For Herb - 1993 #20 UK Pogue Mahone - 1996
The Best Of The Pogues - 1991 #11 UK The Rest Of The Best - 1992 The Very Best Of The Pogues - 2001 #18 The Ultimate Collection Including Live At The Brixton Academy - 2001 #15 UK Dirty Old Town The Platinum Collection read less
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Shane MacGowan Vocals James Fearnley Accordion And Spider Stacy Tin Whistle Were The Original Members Of The Pogues In The Days When They Busked On The Streets Of London. Before The Rest Of The Group Formed MacGowan And Stacy Were Rumoured To Have Played Impromptu Performances On Street Corners And City Buses Which Attracted Local Interest To Their Talent. They Later Added Jeremy 'Jem' Finer Guitar Banjo Cait O'Riordan Bass And Andrew Ranken Drums . The Band Rapidly Developed A Reputation Started Releasing Independent Work And Ended Up Opening For The Clash On Tour In 1984. Shortening Their Name To "The Pogues" Due To Lack Of Radio Play For The Curse In Their Name They Released Their First Album Red Roses For Me That October. Phil Chevron Guitar Joined The Group Soon After Then With The Aid Of Punk And New Wave Forefather Elvis Costello They Recorded The Follow Up Rum Sodomy & The Lash In 1985 The Album Title Is A Famous Comment Attributed Probably Falsely To Winston Churchill And Others In Describing The Traditions Of The British Royal Navy . The Album Cover Featured The Raft Of The Medusa Though The Faces On The Characters In Géricault's Painting Have Been Replaced With Those Of The Band Members. While The First Album Had Featured A Higher Percentage Of Traditional Songs Shane MacGowan Came Into His Own As A Songwriter With This Disc Offering Up Poetic Story-Telling Such As "The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn" And "The Old Main Drag " As Well As Definitive Interpretations Of Ewan MacColl's "Dirty Old Town" And Eric Bogle's "And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda " The Latter Of Which Has Become More Popular Than The Original Recording. The Band Failed To Take Advantage Of The Momentum Created By The Strong Artistic And Commercial Success Of Their Second Album. They First Refused To Record Another Album Offering Up The 4 Track EP Poguetry In Motion Instead O'Riordan Married Costello And Left The Band To Be Replaced By Bassist Darryl Hunt And They Added A Multi-Instrumentalist In Terry Woods Formerly Of Steeleye Span. Looming Over The Band At This Period As Throughout Their Entire Career Was The Increasingly Erratic Behaviour Of Their Vocalist Principal Songwriter And Creative Visionary Shane MacGowan. Success & Breakup
The Band Remained Stable Enough To Record If I Should Fall From Grace With God In 1988 With Its Christmas Hit Duet With Kirsty MacColl "Fairytale Of New York" And 1989's Peace And Love. The Band Was At The Peak Of Its Commercial Success With Both Albums Making The Top 5 In The UK Nos. 3 And 5 Respectively But MacGowan Was Spiralling Out Of Control. Following Their Next Album Hell's Ditch MacGowan And The Band Parted Company In 1991. With His Departure The Band Was Thrown Into A State Of Flux. Without Their Singer Vocal Duties Were For A Time Handled By Joe Strummer Before Stacy Finally Took Over Permanently. Two Politely Received Albums Followed The First Of Which Waiting For Herb Contained The Band's Third And Final Top Twenty Single "Tuesday Morning" Which Became Their Best Selling Single Internationally. In 1996 The Pogues Disbanded With Just Three Members Remaining. Post Breakup
Shane MacGowan Founded Shane MacGowan And The Popes In 1994. They Recorded Two Studio Albums In The Period Up To Their Split In 2002. MacGowan's Autobiography A Drink With Shane MacGowan Co-Written With His Journalist Girlfriend Victoria Mary Clarke Appeared In 2001. During This Time The Three Other Long-Term Members Of The Pogues Spider Stacy Andrew Ranken And Darryl Hunt Played Together Briefly As The Vendettas. Reunion
The Band Including MacGowan Re-Formed For A Christmas Tour In 2001 And Performed 9 Shows In The UK In December 2004 . In 2002 Q Magazine Named The Pogues As One Of The "50 Bands To See Before You Die". Also In December 2004 VH1 Conducted A Poll To Find The Best Christmas Song Ever With "Fairytale Of New York" Coming Number One With 2 650 Of The 10 000 Votes Cast - Over 25%. In Early 2005 VH1 Conducted Another Poll To Find The 100 Greatest Number Ones That Never Were With The Pogues Coming In At Number 27. In July 2005 The Band - Again Including MacGowan - Played At The Annual Guilfest Festival In Guildford Before Flying Out To Japan Where They Played Three Dates. Japan Is The Last Place They All Played Together Before MacGowan Was Originally Sacked In 1991 And They Have A Strong Following There. They Played A Date In Spain In Early September. The Reunited Pogues Played Dates In The UK With Support From The Dropkick Murphys In Late 2005 And Re-Released Their 1987 Christmas Classic "Fairytale Of New York" On 19th December Which Went Straight In At #3 In The UK Singles Charts On Christmas Day 2005 Showing The Song's Enduring Popularity. On December 22nd 2005 The BBC Broadcast A Live Performance Recorded The Previous Week On The Jonathan Ross Christmas Show With Katie Melua. "Fairytale Of New York" Was Voted The Greatest Christmas Record Of All Time For The Second Year Running In A Poll By UK Music Channel VH1 With "Fairytale Of New York" Taking In A Whopping 39% Of The Overall Vote. The Band Was Awarded The Life-Time Achievement Award At The Annual Meteor Ireland Music Awards In February 2006. In March 2011 The Pogues Played A Six-City/ten-Show Sell-Out US Tour Titled "A Parting Glass With The Pogues". In August 2012 The Pogues Undertook A 30th Anniversary European Tour. Discography
Albums
Red Roses For Me - 1984 #89 UK Rum Sodomy And The Lash - 1985 #13 UK Poguetry In Motion EP - 1986 #29
If I Should Fall From Grace With God - 1988 #3 UK #88 US Peace And Love - 1989 #5 UK Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah EP - 1990 #43 UK Hell's Ditch - 1990 #11 UK Waiting For Herb - 1993 #20 UK Pogue Mahone - 1996
The Best Of The Pogues - 1991 #11 UK The Rest Of The Best - 1992 The Very Best Of The Pogues - 2001 #18 The Ultimate Collection Including Live At The Brixton Academy - 2001 #15 UK Dirty Old Town The Platinum Collection read less
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"And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" is a song, written by Scottish-born singer-songwriter Eric Bogle in 1971. The song describes the futility, gruesome reality and the destruction of war, while criticising those who seek to glorify it. This is exemplified in the song by the account of a young Australian soldier on his maiming during the Battle of Gallipoli during the First World War.
The Pogues cover is perhaps the best-known version; critic Robert Christgau wrote that vocalist Shane MacGowan "never lets go of it for a second: he tests the flavor of each word before spitting it out."
The song incorporates the melody and a few lines of "Waltzing Matilda's" lyrics at its conclusion. Many cover versions of the song have been performed and recorded.
The song is often praised for its haunting imagery of the devastation at Gallipoli. The protagonist, a rover before the war, in the story loses his legs in the battle, and later notes the passing of other veterans with time, as younger generations become apathetic to the veterans and their cause.
In May 2001 the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, named "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time
The first release of the song was by John Currie on the Australian label M7 in 1975. Cover versions of the song have been performed and recorded by Joan Baez, Priscilla Herdman, Liam Clancy, Martin Curtis, The Dubliners, Ronnie Drew, Danny Doyle, Slim Dusty, The Fenians, Mike Harding, Jolie Holland, Seamus Kennedy, Johnny Logan and Friends, John Allan Cameron,John McDermott, Midnight Oil, Christy Moore, The Pogues, The Skids, June Tabor, John Williamson, The Bushwackers and the bluegrass band, The Kruger Brothers,Redgum, Tickawinda (on album "Rosemary Lane"). Garrison Keillor has also performed it on his radio show A Prairie Home Companion when ANZAC Day (April 25) has fallen on a Saturday.
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