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Taken from the Album, Lady’s Bridge, Out Now
Richard Hawley will release his second single Serious taken from his new silver status album Lady’s Bridge which went in at number six in the UK charts.
Richard Hawley Serious will be available on CD, 7” and download. The CD and 7’ are backed with Richard Hawley’s version of Elvis Presley’s Poor Boy while the Maxi CD features the traditional black prison song Water Boy plus a Hawaiian instrumental track, Let It Come Slowly Towards You and the video for Serious directed by Shane Meadows (This is England, Dead Man’s Shoes, Once Upon a Time in The Midlands).
Richard on Serious:
“There are only four instruments on Serious - it really is basic as fuck. How this came about was I was doing a soundtrack for a film called Flick that I’m in with Faye Dunaway - I play a rockabilly DJ - but as usual I got distracted and instead of doing what I was supposed to be doing I wrote this instead. It’s a simple song really — when you’re in love it’s great and when you’re not its shit. It’s as simple as that and life can get serious very quickly."
"Recording this record was hard because my dad was dying while I was doing it and it was fucking hardcore man. In Serious when I sing “never be afraid”, it’s about that. My dad died of cancer. He got diagnosed before I went in to do Coles Corner, they gave him six months but he was a hard fucker and survived for three and a half years. My Dad was a funny bloke; he could make a cat laugh. He was a first wave teddy boy and he understood the meaning of enjoying your life, living your life to the full. He was a top bloke. It was very difficult to not let the events that were happening affect the record, I tried to keep balanced and keep my eye on the ball. The last thing my dad would say to me every night at the hospice would be ‘now then bastard, keep your eye on ball’ and then just as I was leaving he’d say: ‘and don’t forget my ale and fags’.”
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