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Strangers : (Brighton/Welbourn) Recorded on 8-track at Studio Playground, Wragby, Lincolnshire spring 1980. Produced by The Sinking Ships. Engineered by Rick Woolgar and Andy Dransfield. Released as double-A-sided 7” single November 1980 on Dead Good Records/Stark Products (Dead14/Stark2). Published by Dead Good Tunes/Street Corner Music. Personnel: Simon Brighton – Guitar & Backing Vocals/Nick Green – Drums/Terry Welbourn – Bass & Vocals. Known airplay: The John Peel Show, BBC Radio One – 29 January 1981. : (Brighton/Welbourn) Recorded on 8-track at Studio Playground, Wragby, Lincolnshire spring 1980. Produced by The Sinking Ships. Engineered by Rick Woolgar and Andy Dransfield. Released as double-A-sided 7” single November 1980 on Dead Good Records/Stark Products (Dead14/Stark2). Published by Dead Good Tunes/Street Corner Music. Personnel: Simon Brighton – Guitar & Backing Vocals/Nick Green – Drums/Terry Welbourn – Bass & Vocals. Known airplay: The John Peel Show, BBC Radio One – 29 January 1981.

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Strangers

Is there someone who can understand the things that he says?
And there was something he once said to me, a long time ago.
Something I never quite understood, something that seemed so strange.
It seems a long time ago – such a long time ago.
And will things ever change? No, things don’t ever change.

Distances mean nothing to him now - he can take his time.
The faces all pass him by and he smiles – he pauses for a while.
I stayed up late for you last night, I waited all through the night.
It seems a long time ago. Such a long time ago.

Lyrics by Terry Welbourn © 1980 : Dead Good Tunes/Street Corner Music Ltd.

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from The Cinema Clock and Other Stories​…​., released January 18, 2021
A Brighton/Welbourn composition. All tracks digitised by Neal Quincey and re-mastered by Steve Orient Summer 2020.

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Sinking Ships 1980 Lincoln, UK

Terry Welbourn and Simon Brighton formed Sinking Ships in 1979 with Colin Hopkirk and Nick Green. In 1980, the band recorded: I Start, Smiles and Guns, A Sinking Ship, Third World and Weight Loss. After Colin left they recorded, The Cinema Clock and Strangers, released as a single in the autumn of 1980. Tracey Horseman, Steve Orient and Charlie Anderson then joined for the single Dream in 1981. ... more

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