Bluebells, The
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Genres: Rock
Styles: New Wave, Indie Pop, Jangle Pop
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UK Charts (Updated Until December 31 2005)
Highest Place In Charts (Albums): 22
Total Weeks In Charts (Albums): 15
Highest Place In Charts (Singles): 1
Total Weeks In Charts (Singles): 49
Members (Alphabetical Order)
Discography
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Biography
Peddling a kind of jangly guitar based pop not dissimilar to their Scottish contemporaries Aztec Camera and Orange Juice, they had three Top 40 hit singles in the UK, all written by guitarist and founder member Bobby Bluebell (real name Robert Hodgens) - "I'm Falling", "Cath", and their biggest success "Young at Heart". The latter was co-written with Siobhan Fahey (with whom Hodgens was romantically linked for a while) and made it to number 8 in the UK Singles Chart on its original release in 1984. The band also released two albums, The Bluebells and Sisters.
The band split up in the mid 1980s, but enjoyed an unexpected - albeit brief - revival in 1993 when "Young At Heart" was used in a Volkswagen television advertisement. Re-issued as a single, it was number one for four weeks and led to the band reforming temporarily to perform the song on BBC Television's Top of the Pops. A singles collection followed.
Post Bluebells
After the group's demise band member Lawrence Donegan played with The Commotions and then trained as a journalist and is now a golf correspondent for The Guardian, having previously worked at The Scotsman. The other members of the band stayed in the music business after the split - David McCluskey and his brother, Ken, formed a folk duo; Robert Hodgens formed Up and more recently The Poems; whilst the former Aztec Camera axe-man Craig Gannon briefly filled in for bassist Andy Rourke in The Smiths on tour during 1986, then stayed as a second live guitarist until being fired from the band, after which he joined The Adult Net.
| Artist | Bluebells, The + |
| Artist Type | Band + |
| Genre | Rock + |
| Page Type | Main Info Page + |
| RID | 831,539 + |
| Style | New Wave +, Indie Pop +, and Jangle Pop + |
