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Kevin Cole :
04/06/2023 05:46 PM
Celebrating Tartan Day today with music from Scotland!
Lead singer Fran Healy wrote the song while on holiday in Israel. He wanted to go somewhere sunny because in his hometown of Glasgow it rained all the time. In an interview at the Live 8 concert, he explained that he was spending a short holiday in the southern vacation city Eilat in the middle of the winter. The city is known for its hot weather even during the winter time, but surprisingly it began to rain for two days during his stay.
The line "Is it because I lied when I was 17?" is a reference to Healy taking a job in a bar at the age of 17 and telling his employer he was 18.
The band's manager tried to deter them from releasing this as a single, saying, "Nobody wants to listen to a pop star moaning about the bloody weather."
When Travis started to perform this song at the 1999 Glastonbury Festival, after being sunny for several hours, it began to rain exactly when the first line was sung. https://bit.ly/3GpnLg9
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John Richards :
11/30/2022 09:31 AM
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Marco Collins :
11/04/2021 09:35 PM
When Travis started to perform this song at the 1999 Glastonbury Festival, after being sunny for several hours, it began to rain exactly when the first line was sung.
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The band's manager tried to deter them from releasing this as a single, saying, "Nobody wants to listen to a pop star moaning about the bloody weather."
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Here's the video, in which Fran Healy's bandmates lock him in the trunk of a '70s Vauxhaul Viva: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXatLOWjr-k&list=LLd2JDLwxn83bNhLAHUrdltg&index=234
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Cheryl Waters :
03/03/2020 11:47 AM
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Stevie Zoom :
09/29/2019 02:15 PM
This year Travis released a 20th Anniversary Edition of The Man Who. The two CD version contains the full album and a supplemental 19 track CD of B-sides. https://www.travisonline.com/
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