A Pair of Brown Eyes
| "A Pair of Brown Eyes" | ||||
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| Single by The Pogues | ||||
| from the album Rum Sodomy & the Lash | ||||
| Released | 18 March 1985 | |||
| Format | 7" single, 12" single | |||
| Genre | Celtic rock | |||
| Length | 4:54 | |||
| Label | Stiff | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Shane MacGowan | |||
| Producer(s) | Elvis Costello | |||
| The Pogues singles chronology | ||||
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"A Pair of Brown Eyes" is a single by The Pogues, released on 18 March 1985.[1] The single was their first to make the UK Top 100, peaking at Number 72.[2] It featured on the band's second album, Rum Sodomy & the Lash, and was composed by Pogues front man Shane MacGowan, on the melody of "Wild Mountain Thyme", also known as "Will Ye Go Lassie Go," a song by Francis McPeake in a traditional Irish folk style.
The song references the Johnny Cash version of the song A Thing Called Love: "And on the jukebox Johnny sang / About a thing called love".
Music video
The music video for "A Pair of Brown Eyes" was directed in 1985 by Alex Cox and was set in a Nineteen Eighty-Four-esque Britain with Margaret Thatcher in the place of Big Brother as a supreme, god-like authoritarian figure. The video featured roles played by band members as well as a cameo by the record's producer Elvis Costello.
References
- ↑ "Record News". Melody Maker. London, England: IPC Media: 4. 16 March 1985.
- ↑ Pogues UK chart history