Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adamson's songs were once the envy of U2 - Redferns In 1983, the ascension of Big Country's debut album, The Crossing, into the ...

In 1988, Big Country decamped to Los Angeles to record their fourth album, Peace In Our Time, an attempt to capture the American rock market. "I was in Norman's Rare Guitars in LA," says Big Country ...

Stuart Adamson, lead singer and guitarist for Scottish rock band Big Country, was found dead in a hotel room in Hawaii on December 16th; he was forty-three. A cause of death has not yet been ...

In 1983, anthemic rock songs about the state of the world dominated popular radio. Bands like U2 and The Alarm let their guitars soar and their vocals cry out. Big Country did the same, but featured ...

“As soon as I made ‘keep steady,’ I was just like, ‘Damn,’ like -- this shit sound beautiful n***a,” sosocamo says. He remembers showing the impending hit to his executive producer Grayto. “We just ...

In Hear This, A.V. Club writers sing the praises of songs they know well—some inspired by a weekly theme and some not, but always songs worth hearing. This week: Single song highlights from 1983. Big ...