![]() I only found out how long it was when two weeks later they were making an album of the Féile Classical event and all the acts, the six acts, had two songs (each) on the album. “So, on the night when we sang it, the crowd just took off and kept singing. “The orchestra said, ‘OK, if they keep singing we’ll try and run with it’, which was great of them because they normally don’t do that. “When we did the Mary one, which was three minutes or whatever, at the end of it I said, ‘I’ve got a feeling the crowd might want a wee bit more on that because when we do the shows they never let it end on three minutes’. “When we did the Féile Classical show, whenever we were doing the rehearsals with the Irish Chamber Orchestra, orchestra arrangements are quite sort of set in stone,” he explained. They did so for over six minutes at the memorable Féile Classical concert at Semple Stadium in September 2018. He’s certainly not exaggerating about how audiences can carry this song for much longer than the original running time. Some people say to me, ‘Do you ever get tired of singing it?’ And I say, ‘A) How could you ever get tired of singing a song that’s been so good to you? And b), It’s a song on the set that I don’t really have to sing – the audience sings that one’" “My aim was to write at least one song that would outlive us – and that might be the song. ![]() The Big Interview: Youtube sensation Grace Carter is keeping all the right company.The real strange thing for me is how it’s managed to hang in there. The track was taken from their debut album Songs for the Tempted, which saw off stiff competition from the biggest band on the planet, U2 with their offering Rattle & Hum, to scoop Best Album of the Year at the Irish Music Awards.īrendan, who is on tour with his brother Declan supporting Robert Plant’s band Saving Grace at the moment, told The Beat: “It was sort of the biggest song that year in the country. Mary was one of the most played songs on Irish radio when released in the summer of 1989. It only seems like yesterday, which “came so suddenly” to quote The Beatles, when The 4 of Us released their third single, which was actually the first tune Brendan ever wrote – as a result of “stalking” a girl he’d fallen had over heels for! Brendan Murphy’s chest must’ve momentarily swelled with pride when the BBC phoned him out of the blue earlier this week to invite The 4 of Us on air to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their smash hit Mary.
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