Did You Know?  When The Whole Of The Moon was first released in 1985 it only reached the lower end of the charts. It took a while for people to fall in love with it. Later in 1991 it was re-released charted at no.3 and won the Ivor Novello Award for 'Best Song Musically And Lyrically'.

There have been lots of speculation about who the song is about but songwriter Mike Scott said -'The Whole of the Moon is about someone like CS Lewis, who seemed to see so much and explore issues much more deeply than most people, or it could be about a Jimi Hendrix-type person who comes "like a comet, blazing your trail" and is gone too soon, but it's not specifically about anyone'

Did You Know?  Coldplay has refused to accept several offers to use "Trouble" for advertising campaigns. In 2004, the band rejected a multi-million Euro offer from Diet Coke and Gap to use the song. Coldplay asked their manager to not refer such offers to them because "a discussion might lead to compromise".

Did You Know? Edinburgh was the place where The Proclaimers spent their formative years so they wrote "Streets of Edinburgh" looking backwards and forwards at the city. 

Did You Know? Jersey Giant was written by Tyler Chiders and he uploaded a stripped down acoustic demo of the song in 2012 but never formally recorded it. Instead he gave the song to Elle King to record in 2022.

Did You Know? The song was originally written about Paul McCartney's late night drives around London with his wife Linda. But as the song progressed and the beginning of the end of the Beatles arrived it began to take on shades of meaning through the lens of Paul MCcartney and John Lennons relationship. 

Did You Know? The music for Friend Of The Devil was written by performing members of the Grateful Dead Jerry Garcia and John Dawson. But the lyrics were written by Robert Hunter who was a non-performing member of the band. Robert Hunter is the only non-performing member of a band to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 

Did You Know? In 2009 Bob Dylan release a Christmas album as his 34th album. It's called 'Christmas In The Heart'. He gives all royalties from the sale of this album to charity - Feeding American in the US, Crisis in the UK and the World Food Programme.