a b "Clannad Announce 'In A Lifetime' Career-Spanning World Tour". Thatericalper.com. 24 February 2020 . Retrieved 19 August 2021. In 1982, Yorkshire TV approached us for some music for a drama series called Harry’s Game, based on Gerald Seymour’s 1975 novel set during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. He, the head of music and the producer had all heard a Scottish-Gaelic song on our previous album and came over to Dublin to tell us about their project. In October 1987, Clannad worked with American producers Greg Ladanyi and Russ Kunkel, drummer of James Taylor's band, on their next album, Sirius. The album was given a contemporary pop-influenced sound and production, creating the impression that it was recorded in the US, although it was recorded in the UK and mixed in Los Angeles. [30] Máire Brennan recalled that the band had been at an experimental stage at the time and said Ladanyi and Kunkel had not listened to their previous records. Ciaran thought the music had been "sandpapered down to be a radio-friendly album", and that the production had relied too heavily on a computer. [30] Sirius featured " Something to Believe In", a duet with Bruce Hornsby on vocals and keyboards, and guest appearances by Steve Perry and J.D. Souther. In February 1988, the band began a world tour which included dates across Europe, Australia and the US, to commemorate their fifteenth anniversary. [43] Home– Real Good Music". Rgmbooking.com. Archived from the original on 23 October 2014 . Retrieved 7 May 2012.

Colin Irwin. CD sleeve notes - Clannad Beginnings: the Best of the Early Years - Demon Music Group 2008. a b c Harbridge, Simon (5 October 1984). "Looking after family business". Nottingham Evening Post. p.8 . Retrieved 1 July 2023– via British Newspaper Archives.Lynch uncovers his hardnosed relish for the nastier aspects of police work and his softer side too, deriving much pleasure through listening to Irish folk acts such as Clannad in his unmarked police car!". Futuremovies.co.uk. 28 November 2003 . Retrieved 22 September 2014. In 1974, the band followed their debut album with Clannad 2, released by Gael Linn Records and produced by Dónal Lunny, the founder of Planxty and The Bothy Band. Like their first album, Clannad 2 featured a mixture of English and Gaelic songs, with Lunny and members of the Bothy Band on additional instruments. It also featured the band's first use of a synthesizer. [28] [30] Initially known as Clann as Dobhar ('Family from Dore'), [4] they shortened their name to Clannad in 1973. [5] By 1979 they had released three albums and toured Europe and the US. From 1980 to 1982 they operated as a six-piece with their sister and niece Eithne ( Enya). In 1982 they gained international attention with their single " Theme from Harry's Game". [4] [6] They experimented with New Age and pop-influenced sounds in the 1980s and 1990s [7] [8] and their music came to be defined as almost purely Celtic, making them innovators of that genre. [9] In 1997, after 15 albums, they took a break and pursued solo projects. [10] The band regrouped in 2007 as a four piece with Moya, Ciarán, Noel and Pádraig and completed a world tour in 2008. [11] [12] In 2013, Pól rejoined and they released their first studio album in fifteen years. [13] Pádraig Duggan died in 2016 and the group embarked on their farewell tour in 2020 as a quartet. [14] A very fine way to say goodbye: still in love with the music, and intent on getting to the heart of every song. Siobhán Long a b c d Bacon, Tony (June 1985). "That Clannad Moment". One Two Testing (Jun 1985): 54–55 . Retrieved 29 June 2023– via Muzines.

Purcell, Deirdre (6 December 1987). " 'Music Is My Whole Life' ". Sunday Tribune. p.17 . Retrieved 2 July 2023. The next morning, everybody came in with lyrics of storms and lightning and everything,” Moya added, “and hence the song was born! It was fantastic looking at how Bono crafted the song himself and how he reached those notes and his singing and everything. Everything about it was fantastic. It was just amazing to watch. He just walked in the studio and improvised his vocal in 2 takes, making up a lot of lyrics to fit the song on the spot. The whole thing took about 10 minutes. It was one of the most remarkable things I’ve ever seen in a studio.” This was a performance marked by poise and precision. Moya Brennan took quiet, unassuming possession of centre stage from the get go, with a delicate reading of Buachaill ón Éirne, from their 1985 album, Macalla. Her voice, deliciously wraithlike and woven like a skein through the lyrics, carries traces of a lifetime of performance, but its essence is still what it was when she first took to the stage at Letterkenny Folk Festival as a teenager. The Brennans are Ireland's most successful music family; in 2005, the combined record sales of Clannad and Enya exceeded 70 million. [73] Leo Brennan (born Leopold Henry Brennan-Hardin) [74] and Máire "Baba" Duggan are the parents of the Brennan siblings Máire (Moya), Ciarán, Pól, Deirdre, Leon, [75] Eithne (Enya), Olive, Bartley, and Brídín. Brennan was a musician who played in an Irish showband, the Slieve Foy, and Duggan was an amateur musician who taught music at Gweedore Community School and lead the local choir, Cór Mhuire Doire Beaga. The family lived in Dore, a parish in Gweedore, County Donegal. Begin again - Bono, (Heavy in my heart - Clannad) As the storm breaks through (Believe the light in you - Clannad) So the light shines in you -Bono

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a b Daly, John (9 July 2005). "Love and the Music". Irish Independent. pp.22, 24–25 . Retrieved 15 July 2023. Munro, Scott (9 September 2019). "Clannad announce In A Lifetime farewell UK tour". Loudersound . Retrieved 19 August 2021.