The Alarm
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Biography
The Alarm is an alternative rock band which formed in 1978 in Rhyl, Wales. For most of their career the band consisted of Mike Peters (vocals, guitar), Dave Sharp (guitar), Eddie Macdonald (bass) and Nigel Twist (drums). The band split in 1991, but reunited in 2001. The band began in 1978 in the North-Wales town of Rhyl, under the name of 'Seventeen'. Its 4 members were Mike Peters, Dave Sharp, Eddie Macdonald and Nigel Twist. They knocked around the music scene for a while with little success and reformed as 'Alarm Alarm' (taken from one of Seventeen's songs) in 1981.
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Rain in the Summertime - (6:48) - 2,348 playsLyricsUnder the anvil of the sun
Sweat, like a train
I come, I come,
My body to dust
Scorched by the might of the sun
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Sixty Eight Guns - (4:57) - 1,689 playsLyricsAnd now they're trying to take my life away
Forever young I cannot stay
Hey
On every corner I can see them there
They don't know my name they don't know my kind
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Strength - (6:51) - 974 playsLyricsGIVE ME LOVE
GIVE ME HOPE
GIVE ME STRENGTH
GIVE ME SOMEONE TO LIVE FOR
Who will light the fire
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The Stand - (4:21) - 833 playsLyricsOh I have been out searching with the black book in my hand
And I've looked between the lines that lie on the pages that I tread
I met the walking dude,religious, in his wom down cowboy boots
He walked liked no man on earth
I swear he had no name (had no name)
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Spirit Of '76 - (7:54) - 735 playsLyricsWell I find myself in reverie
'Bout what we might have had
And what might have been
We had something going once
That was such a long, long time ago
- Blaze Of Glory - (4:46) - 665 plays
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- Marching On - (3:32) - 598 plays
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- Rescue Me - (4:14) - 617 plays
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- 68 Guns - (3:18) - 646 plays
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- Sold Me Down The River - (4:18) - 603 plays
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