Clouds Across the Moon

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"Clouds Across the Moon"
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Artwork for original release
Single by RAH Band
from the album Mystery
B-side Clouds Across the Moon (Solar Horizon Mix) [1]
Released18 March 1985
Genre Jazz-funk, synthpop, new wave, space disco
Length6:49 (album version) [2]
4:12 (single edit) [3]
Label RCA [1]
Songwriter(s) Richard Anthony Hewson [3]
Producer(s) Richard Anthony Hewson [3]
RAH Band singles chronology
"Are You Satisfied? (Funka Nova)"
(1984)		"Clouds Across the Moon"
(1985)		"Sorry Doesn't Make It Anymore"
(1985)

"Clouds Across the Moon" is a song written by Richard Anthony Hewson. It was released as a single on 18 March 1985 on his studio group the RAH Band's album Mystery . The single reached the top 10 of the singles charts in the UK, The Netherlands and Sweden.

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Background

In an interview with Smash Hits on 8 May 1985, Richard Anthony Hewson said that the song took place in the future where there was a 100-year long war on Mars. In regard to the phone call featured in the song, Hewson said that it was "much more difficult to make these calls since British Telecom was privatized." Hewson also mentioned that the phone call cost about "five million six hundred and forty thousand pounds and forty pence." It’s been suggested the song’s reference to "Flight 247" was included to garner airplay from BBC Radio 1 who at one time had broadcast on the wavelength of 247 metres on the medium wave band. This however is unlikely as Radio 1 had switched to broadcasting on 275 & 285 metres in 1978, nearly 7 years before the song’s release.” [4] The vocals were performed by Hewson's wife Liz. [5]

Charts

Peak position

Chart (1985)Peak
position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [6] 6
Europe (European Hot 100 Singles) [7] 46
France (SNEP) [8] 28
Ireland (IRMA) [9] 9
Italy ( Musica e dischi ) [10] 19
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [11] 5
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [12] 8
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan) [13] 9
UK Singles (OCC) [14] 6

Year-end charts

Chart (1985)Position
Belgium (Ultratop 50 Flanders) [15] 48
Netherlands (Dutch Top 40) [16] 41
Netherlands (Single Top 100) [17] 54

Remixes

Covers

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References

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  2. ↑ "RAH Band - Mystery". Discogs. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "RAH Band - Clouds Across The Moon (Vinyl)". Discogs. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
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  9. ↑ "The Irish Charts – Search Results – Clouds Across the Moon". Irish Singles Chart. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "Classifiche". Musica e dischi (in Italian). Set "Tipo" on "Singoli". Then, in the "Artista" field, search "Rah Band".
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  13. ↑ "Rah Band – Clouds Across the Moon". Singles Top 100.
  14. ↑ "Rah Band: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  15. ↑ "Jaaroverzichten 1985 – Singles" (in Dutch). Ultratop. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  16. ↑ "Top 100-Jaaroverzicht van 1985" (in Dutch). Dutch Top 40. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  17. ↑ "Jaaroverzichten – Single 1985" (in Dutch). Dutch Charts . Retrieved 9 January 2021.
  18. ↑ "Offizielle Deutsche Charts". www.offiziellecharts.de (in German). 3 May 1999. Retrieved 2 December 2017.
  19. ↑ Euro Solution | Release information | The Rah Band feat Emma Charles: Clouds Across The Moon Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  20. ↑ Porter, Charlie (24 January 1998). "New album releases". The Times . p. 11. What's best is the first known cover of that Eighties space-age weepy, Clouds Across the Moon by the Rah Band, which sounds as if it were performed by an Oriental Bucks Fizz.
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