Área de identidad
Código de referencia
IE LMOD 667
Título
1980 Bagatelle 'Summer in Dublin' single
Fecha(s)
- Twentieth Century (Creación)
Nivel de descripción
Unidad documental simple
Volumen y soporte
Paper, ink, vinyl. 18.5 x 18.5 cm
Área de contexto
Nombre del productor
Historia biográfica
Historia archivística
26/08/2011
Área de contenido y estructura
Alcance y contenido
The single cover is black with white writing 'Bagatelle Summer in Dublin' with a picture of the Liffey and Dublin city in the evening.
“I remember that summer in Dublin/And the Liffey as it stank like hell,” went the chorus to Dublin rock band Bagatelle’s 1980 number one Summer in Dublin. The smell of the Liffey was a serious problem – £25 million was set aside to clean up the river that year. The narrator decides to leave for somewhere cleaner and quieter, but when he gets bored, “I just get on the road and I stick out my thumb/’Cause I know for sure you’ll be there still.”