THE BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.

To compliment my recently completed ‘1000 BEST SONGS LIST,’ here is another that just missed the cut.

1032-Deacon Blue-Dignity.
1988-Number 31 single.When re-released in 1994 it peaked at Number 20.
Best Bit-At 1.25.An absolute Dreamboat of a song.
Deacon Blue were formed in Glasgow in 1985,they split in 1994, but reformed in 1999, and remain active to this very day,they took their name from the 1976 Steely Dan song ‘Deacon Blues.’Two of the original line up,Ricky Ross, and Lorraine McIntosh married in 1990, and now have four children.The other original band members were,,James Prime, Dougie Vipond, Ewen Vernal, and Graeme Kelling(1957-2004.)
‘Dignity’ was the first officially released single from Deacon Blue,it was written by lead singer Ricky Ross.The song tells the tale of a man whose job it is to clean the streets,he sometimes receives abuse for what he does,but he will not stand for any nonsense,he is a proud man, who always keeps his dignity. They don’t know that he is saving whatever money he can, so that one day he can live his dream of sailing away to wherever he pleases, on his ship named Dignity. Ricky Ross has said,’I have no idea why I started writing a song like that in Greece.I was sitting messing around with lyrics,bored on holiday,in a far away scene.There were men from the Glasgow cleansing department depot, who walked up and down the street with brushes outside my flay in Pollokshields.’
‘And I’m thinking about home.and I’m thinking about faith,and I’m thinking about work,and I’m thinking how good it would be to be here some day.’
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