Classic Rock

Big Country

As their 40th-anniversary tour for debut album The Crossing is coming to an end, a similar tour for second album Steeltown is not far away, kicking off in February.

Straight from one anniversary into the next. Those first three albums came in quick succession. Time goes so fast; I still remember touring for the twentieth anniversary of Steeltown and thinking: “Bloody hell.”

Steeltown was recorded during the miners’ strike of ’84. Your father was a miner.

had been the first bit of success I’d had, and

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