![]() I mean it went gold, which was sort of a miracle. ![]() ![]() It worked out great, I mean we sold as many records as you could sell on a Gaelic folk funeral song. There are very few people in America that speak Gaelic. It was lucky the lyrics were in Gaelic because it was actually a funeral dirge, and I don't think if I was Volkswagen, I would be playing a funeral dirge in my ad for cars. So we actually flew out to Detroit and met with Volkswagen. Jason Flom, a record executive who signed the band to RCA, told Forbes: "Sure enough, we started selling like crazy off this ad. They flooded Volkswagen's customer service line with inquiries about the record. Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. Viewers were less concerned with the vehicle and more interested in the unique song. Listen free to Clannad Greatest Hits (Theme from Harry's Game, Buachaill On Eirne and more). But its most significant exposure came in the form of a TV commercial for the Volkswagen Passat. In 1992, it was used in the political thriller Patriot Games, starring Harrison Ford, in a scene where an IRA member watches the music video on television. This was a big hit in the UK, where it peaked at #5 in 1982, but it took a decade to make an impression in the US. In 1982, sans Enya, they got a new record deal with RCA. With another sibling added to the lineup, the soon-to-be-famous New Age singer Enya, Clannad got even bolder with their sound, trading traditional acoustic instruments for synthesizers, horns, and electric pianos. Clannad are a Grammy Award-winning Irish musical group, from Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair), County Donegal.1 Their music has been variously described as borderi. When a folk revival took hold in Ireland, however, folks were more welcoming to their contemporary take on tradition. "People used to say to us, 'Listen, you'll not get anywhere doing that.'" "People thought it was a bit mad that we were singing Gaelic songs," Moya recalled. While Gaelic purists hated them, contemporary artists didn't understand them. So we were kind of regarded as being traitors." The only time you were really allowed to add instruments to singing in Gaelic way back, was the harp, and I wasn't playing the harp like that. Moya Brennan, who founded the group with her siblings and uncles, explained: "Gaelic songs were sung unaccompanied, so what we were doing was sacrilege. In A Lifetime will be released as a deluxe box set, 2LP set, 2CD set and also a 2CD media book.Clannad is a family band that formed in the '70s and started making waves in their homeland for their unorthodox approach to traditional music. Clannad ( Irish pronunciation: kland) are an Irish band formed in 1970 in Gweedore, County Donegal by siblings Ciarn, Pl, and Moya Brennan and their twin uncles Noel and Pdraig Duggan. The band says: “We had discussed prior to our world tour in 2013-2015, whether it would be our farewell tour, but since Pádraig passed we made the decision that our next tour would definitely be our last and we plan to make it a very special and memorable final journey…and to accompany this journey we are very pleased to be releasing the In A Lifetime anthology which we hope will leave our fans with a lasting musical legacy.” Who Knows Where The Time Goes, the other new song, with it’s titular reference to the late Sandy Denny, is about ‘father time’ and the challenges most of us face on a daily basis. The Clannad Original Soundtrack, from the visual novel Clannad, was first released on 13 August 2004 in Japan by Key Sounds Label bearing the catalog.
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