When was bright eyes released

It was the biggest selling single of in the UK. Written by Mike Batt for Watership Down at the request of director Martin Rosen,[1] the song relates to the transition into death highlighted by the close shave of Hazel, a rabbit character in the film, when he is shot by a farmer, and then, years later, when Hazel then Hazel-rah finally departs his body and enters the world of spirit. The song was immensely successful in the United Kingdom, staying at number one in the UK Singles Chart for six weeks in ,[2] selling over one million copies, becoming the biggest selling single of that year in the UK.

It has sold 1. It reached 27 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Welsh band Manic Street Preachers released a live version as a b-side on the cassette version of their A Design for Life single in In , five-year-old child performer Matthew Butler performed a version of the song on the ITV children's series Tiswas dressed in a grey furry rabbit costume.

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Recorded in a makeshift studio with a cast of musicians dubbed the Mystic Valley Band , Conor Oberst arrived in The project soon evolved from a solo effort into a full-band affair, and the Mystic Valley Band returned in with Outer South, an album that included songs written and sung by several of Oberst 's bandmates.

In , A Christmas Album, which had originally been quietly issued in as a Saddle Creek online-store exclusive, was finally scheduled for its first full commercial release. This unique holiday album featured a selection of Christmas standards performed in Bright Eyes' trademark bittersweet style, with help from a plethora of other Saddle Creek artists including members of Cursive , Desaparecidos , Neva Dinova , and Azure Ray.

This was leading slowly to the band's emergence from their dormant state. In January of , Bright Eyes announced they had signed to indie imprint Dead Oceans for the release of their ninth album, Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was, and began sharing new songs in advance of the record's release.