Bright Blue

Bright Blue

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They are best known for the protest song "Weeping", written by keyboard-player Dan Heymann, that the band recorded incorporating strands of Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika at a time when public performance of the ANC anthem could lead to summary arrest. However the powers that be seemed to notice neither the reference to a banned tune nor that the song was an allegory about then State President PW Botha and the state of emergency that he'd imposed. []

In 1999, "Weeping" was voted the "All-time favourite South African song" in a poll by SA Rock Digest/Amuzine. [cite web
url=http://www.rock.co.za/files/sarock_pollwinners.html
title=South African Rock Lists
accessdate=2008-02-10] In 2000, "Weeping" was voted the Radio 5 'song of the century'.Fact|date=July 2007

An early forerunner of the Rainbow Nation or crossover sound, that blends rock, pop and mbaqanga with occasional lyrics in indigenous languages, they were contemporaries of Juluka, éVoid,Mango Groove, Johannes Kerkorrel, and Kalahari Surfers.Fact|date=July 2007

Musicians

*Ian Cohen - bass, vocals
*Peter Cohen - drums, vocals
*Tom Fox - guitar, vocals
*Dan Heymann - keyboards
*Robin Levetan - vocals (first album only)

*Basil Coetzee - saxophone on 'Weeping'
*McCoy Mrubata - saxophone on 'Yesterday Night'
*Peter Barnett - percussion on first album
*Scorpion Madondo - saxophone on 'Time On My Own'
*Terri Cohen: backing vocals (1996, 2001)
*Tonia Selley: backing vocals (1996)
*Mark Goliath: keyboards (2001)
*Buddy Wells - saxophone on 'Madiba 1990'

Albums

*Bright Blue (1984)
*The Rising Tide (1988)
*Every Now And Then - The Best So Far... 1984-2001 (2001)

References

;General references
* [http://www.rock.co.za/brightblue/index.html The Official Bright Blue Website]
* [http://www.weeping.info/Bright-Blue.html The story of Bright Blue by Dan Heymann]

;Specific references


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