Deacon Blue
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| Background information | ||
| Origin |  Glasgow, Scotland |
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| Genre(s) | Pop Rock Blues Alternative rock |
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| Years active | 1985–present | |
| Label(s) | Columbia
Records Chrysalis Records |
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| Website | www.deaconblue.com | |
| Members | ||
| Ricky Ross James Prime Lorraine McIntosh Dougie Vipond |
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| Former members | ||
| Graeme
Kelling (deceased) Ewen Vernal |
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Deacon Blue are a Scottish pop band. The name of the band is taken from the title of a Steely Dan song, whose lyrics seem to reflect the group's early outlook:
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Formed in 1985, this predominantly Glaswegian act were one of the top-selling UK bands of the late 1980s/early 1990s. The group's members were Ricky Ross, Lorraine McIntosh, James Prime, Dougie Vipond, Ewen Vernal and Graeme Kelling.
Ross, a former school teacher originally from Dundee, was the group's frontman, penning the vast majority of Deacon Blue's songs. He married female vocalist Lorraine McIntosh in the later years of the band's career.
In 1986, the band contributed a track ("Take the Saints Away") to a compilation cassette entitled Honey at the Core, featuring then up-and-coming Glasgow bands, including Wet Wet Wet and Hue and Cry.
The band's debut album, Raintown,
produced by Jon
Kelly and released in 1987, is regarded by many as the
band's finest effort, spawning the singles "
The second album, 1989's
By this time, the band had gained a reputation as one of the best live acts in the UK. Ticket sales for shows in Glasgow's SECC in both May and December of 1989 would break the world record at the time for the fastest sell-out. The following year saw the band play in front of an estimated 250,000 fans at the free concert on Glasgow Green "The Big Day", which was held to celebrate Glasgow being named that year's European City of Culture. The band also played Glastonbury and the Roskilde festivals that summer, as well as released Ooh Las Vegas, a double album of B-sides, extra tracks, film tracks, and sessions. This seemed to confirm the band's eminent status by reaching No. 3 in the UK album charts.
Jon Kelly returned to the producer's chair in 1991 for the album Fellow Hoodlums. The album was met with more critical success, but by now the group's honeymoon period was over and their success had started to wane somewhat -- the album peaked at No. 2 on the UK album charts.
Fellow Hoodlums was followed up by 1993's
The band embarked on another sold out UK tour in 1994, but not
before recording new material for their greatest hits compilation
With Vipond's decision to quit the group in favour for a career in television, Deacon Blue split up in 1994.
Five years later, the band held an unexpected reunion gig in 1999, and this led on to a new album, Walking Back Home, with the band now working on a part-time basis.
The band released another album,
Though Graeme Kelling died from cancer in 2004, the band has vowed to continue in his absence.
The year 2006 saw Deacon Blue returning to the studio to
record 3 new tracks for a
The band performed at Manchester United's
Ricky Ross, who had released a solo album before the formation of Deacon Blue, released two solo albums during the time between Deacon Blue's breakup in 1994 and reformation in 1999.
Due to Deacon Blue's part time status after reformation, Ross released additional solo albums in 2002 and 2005 and has written for and with other recording artists.
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