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Wikipedia article{{Infobox song | name = High | cover = Lighthouse Family High 3.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Lighthouse Family | album = Postcards from Heaven | released = | recorded = August 1997 | studio = | genre = | length = 5:13 | label = | writer = Paul Tucker | producer = Mike Peden | prev_title = Raincloud | prev_year = 1997 | next_title = Lost in Space | next_year = 1998 | misc = }} "'High'" is a song by British musical duo Lighthouse Family from their second album, 'Postcards from Heaven' (1997). The song was produced by Mike Peden and was released on 29 December 1997 as the second single from the album. "High" is the most successful single released by the Lighthouse Family to date, reaching number four on the UK Singles Chart, number eight in New Zealand, and number one in Australia. In Europe, the song reached the top 10 in at least eight countries. BackgroundIn March 2021, songwriter Paul Tucker told the Official Charts Company the story behind the song: "High was probably the most difficult song to write of all of them. Without getting too heavy, my wife lost a baby on New Year's Eve in 1996, the year that the album ['Ocean Drive'] was a hit. Lifted was a hit and Ocean Drive was a hit. It was the first week in 1997 I started writing High, and I had the bit: 'One day we're gonna get so high'. That was the same week and this is absolutely incidental, its nothing to do with the song - although a Newcastle United fan might think it is that Kevin Keegan left Newcastle United. I just remember that week so well because of what happened. Critical receptionChuck Taylor of 'Billboard' wrote, "After being released in the U.K. nearly a year ago, this spiritual gem of a single is finally seeing the light of day here. One of many high points on the duo's delicious sophomore album, "'Postcards From Heaven'", "High" has been released to AC radio in its original form. For the clubs and dance radio, it has been lovingly reconstructed by two of clubland's most revered remixers: Boris Dlugosch and Francois Kevorkian. In its original state, "High" is a postcard-perfect R&B-splashed slice of pop music. In the hands of both Dlugosch and Kevorkian, it becomes an anthemic house inflected pop song. There is just no denying the song's buoyant beats, mahogany-hued vocals, and soaring rhythms. It's one of those songs that truly deserves to be a hit at both radio and clubs. If, as Faithless proclaims, God is a DJ, "High" is poised for much success." Scottish newspaper 'Daily Record' commented, "There's nothing like working to a formula. First they were lifted, now they're high"."Chart Slot; TOP 10 SINGLES". 'Daily Record'. 9 January 1998. Retrieved 1 December 2020. Music videoA music video was made to accompany the song. The clip is in black and white, except when Tunde Baiyewu begins to sing. There are scenes of Paul Tucker getting off the train at Newcastle upon Tyne and exiting the city's Central Station. There are also scenes of Tunde singing in an autumn park and the Tynemouth beach, standing outside the Cruddas Park (now Riverside Dene) flats in Elswick, a girl lying and rolling on the grass while playing with flowers, and an abandoned house near Dungeness. Filmed in North East England and Kent, the video shows some prominent local landmarks: the Tyne Bridge is shown at the very start along with the Quayside, and a number of shots of Baiyewu take place on the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge, Port Clarence and Haverton Hill, which is also the backdrop for the single covers. Track listings* 'UK CD1' # "High" (full length version) # "High" (Itaal Shur's Beautiful Urban mix) # "High" (Full Crew main mix) # "High" (Itaal Shur's Beautiful Urban Dreamscape mix) * 'UK CD2' # "High" (full length version) # "High" (vocal 12-inch) # "High" (Interplanetary Disco mix) # "High" (E-Dancer dub) # "High" (Inner City mix) * 'UK cassette single' # "High" (full length version) # "High" (Itaal Shur's Beautiful Urban edit) * 'European CD single' # "High" (7-inch edit) 4:35 # "High" (Itaal Shur's Beautiful Urban edit) 3:43 * 'Australian CD single' # "High" (7-inch edit) 4:35 # "Lifted" (7-inch) 4:30 # "Ocean Drive" (7-inch radio mix) 3:59 # "High" (Itaal Shur's Beautiful Urban edit) 3:43 * 'Alfredo Nini version' # "High" 4:58 ChartsWeekly chartsYear-end chartsCertificationsRelease historyReferences | |
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