Shadows On The Sky

Album: Welcome to the Show (1990)
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Songfacts®:

  • "Shadows On The Sky" is a Les Holroyd composition about "big game being hunted to extinction." As he elaborated in the band's official biography: "It's actually about the elephants and rhinos; it's hard to explain if people haven't been to Africa, but you can actually see for miles and miles, and if you see any animal it looks like a shadow on the horizon."
  • The final track on the 1990 Welcome To The Show album, the song has a distinctly African feel due to the drumming and the chanting, which is not restricted to the band. According to the notes on the splendiferous Barclay James Harvest website, the guitar solo had a "backwards" effect, and for live shows the song has developed into a big audience participation finale, closing the set in fine style. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Alexander Baron - London, England, for above 2

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