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December 17, 2001

Big Country Singer Dead

Stuart Adamson found in Hawaiian hotel

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The Seer

When Big Country first roared onto the American scene with The Crossing in 1983, the band was humanism's revenge on soulless pop posturing. Its soaring guitars, folk-derived jigs and reels and unfettered passion shattered the technopop anomie dominating music at that time. But while its battle's...

1986 RS: Not Rated

Steeltown

1984

The Crossing

1983

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Biography

In the early '80s Big Country was among a sprinkling of bands that favored guitars over synthesizers and earnest idealism over irony. Like their contemporaries in U2 and the Alarm, the members of Big Country were inspired by punk's energy and its emphasis on connecting with the audience.

Lead singer Stuart Adamson launched his rock career by playing guitar in a self-styled punk quartet called the...

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