Road Rage (Catatonia song)

"Road Rage"

UK single release
Single by Catatonia
from the album International Velvet
Released 1998
Format CD
Genre Alternative Rock
Length 5:09(album version)
4:02(single edit)
Label Blanco y Negro
Writer(s) Mark Roberts
Producer(s) Catatonia
Catatonia singles chronology
"Mulder and Scully" (1998) "Road Rage" "Strange Glue" (1999)

"Road Rage" is a single that was released by the Welsh band Catatonia in 1998.[1] It reached #5 on the UK Singles Chart. The song features on the Catatonia album International Velvet. In her book Pure Evil, Maureen Harvey claims that the lyrics of the song referred to the murder of her son Lee Harvey by his girlfriend, Tracie Andrews. Andrews had claimed Lee's death was the result of a road rage attack by a stranger. Maureen Harvey states " . . . at least the group's singer Cerys Matthews had the decency to return my call and explain that she hadn't intended to cause any offence. She tried to convince me that the song showed how Tracie had gone crazy and that it didn't actually do her any favours." The connection is not obvious to the casual listener.[2]

Charts

Chart (1998) Peak
position
Australia (Aria Chart)[3] 40
Irish Singles Chart[4] 29
UK Singles Chart[5] 5

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic
  2. ↑ Pure Evil - How Tracie Andrews Murdered My Son, Maureen Harvey, 2008, John Blake Publishing Ltd.
  3. ↑ Steffen Hung. "Catatonia – International Velvet". australian-charts.com. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  4. ↑ "Search the Charts". The Irish Charts. Retrieved 30 July 2013.
  5. ↑ "Catatonia". Official Charts Company. Retrieved July 29, 2013.

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