BIG COUNTRY'S BAGPIPE CURSE!

Things were swimming along in a British synthetic haze in the fall of ’82 when there issued this sound over the radio waves. It sounded familiar, warm, twangy and electric...oh, right—a guitar! With the demanding opening thunder of “Fields Of Fire,” Big Country staked another powerful claim for the vitality of rock ’n’ roll, and were entered in the Sincerity Sweepstakes (you know—the holy trinity of U2, Big Country and the Alarm, etc., etc., etc.).