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"Cliffs of Dover" is an instrumental rock composition by the American guitarist, singer and songwriter Eric Johnson, released on his 1990 studio album Ah Via Musicom. Johnson had performed it as early as 1984.
The song was present also in the 2007 historical drama Atonement. On 18 February 2009, a story in The Daily Telegraph announced that Dame Vera Lynn was suing the British National Party (BNP) for using her version of "The White Cliffs of Dover" on an anti-immigration album without her permission. Lynn's lawyer claimed sales of the song would ...
The song included the line "Wandering I am lost, as I travel along the White Cliffs of Dover." The 1941 song "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover" is a popular World War II song composed by Walter Kent to lyrics by Nat Burton. It was made famous by Vera Lynn's 1942 version. The White Cliffs have long been a landmark for sailors.
While Woods was the primary lead singer on Horkstow Grange, on this album she sings lead on only five songs, mostly quieter pieces that allowed her to demonstrate her high range. Two of these pieces, "Arbour" and "The White Cliffs of Dover" experiment with spoken-word sequences, something entirely new for the band.
I was struggling, with work, life, my identity, I couldn't find my place; frustration fueled the song." [1] Regarding the line, "Wandering I am lost, as I travel along the White Cliffs of Dover," Cliff stated, "...that came from the number of times I crossed the channel to the continent. Most of the time it was France but sometimes it was Germany.
Preceding his death in 1989, Kent journeyed to Kent, England (the Anglo-Saxon namesake of his adopted surname) to view the cliffs of Dover.At the time of his visit, he donated an original manuscript of the song "(There'll Be Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover" and participated in the preliminary stages of planning a war commemoration tourist center.
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Live from Austin, TX is Eric Johnson's first live album, released in November 2005. The album showcases Johnson's seminal 1988 performance at Austin City Limits.The performance included a number of songs from Ah Via Musicom before its release in 1990, the album that a few years later would launch Johnson to fame as well as a pair of Jimi Hendrix covers.