Bagpipes in pop songs

billymac | 20:40 Mon 21st Jun 2010 | Music

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Does anybody know of any pop songs other than Mull Of Kintyre and your the voice that has Bagpipes in.

Visa theme tune

The Parlotones

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boxtops

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Here you are

http://answers.yahoo....20070926193850AAUIDpg

(oh dear, there's one near the end of the list called Flogging Molly....nooooo)

20:46 Mon 21st Jun 2010

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MarkRae

> Slade seemed to use bagpipes on RunRun Away but I recall it turned out they used guitars to make the sound.

Correct. Big Country used the same technique. Many people have used synthesisers to simulate the sound, e.g. Peter Gabriel in Biko etc...

scotman

Roy Wood of "The Move" and "Wizzard" fame used them on some records

mushroom25

this is class................
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0GbxkRzKnk
;-)

MarkRae

Just listened to Andy Stewart's "A Scottish Soldier" and can't actually hear any bagpipes. Plenty of drums, accordion, double bass, fifes, strings, and female backing vocals - but definitely no bagpipes.

The tune, of course, is a bagpipe standard dating from the Crimean War to which Stewart wrote lyrics...