Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 18. Chapters: The Tide Is High, Heart of Glass, Call Me, Rapture, Atomic, One Way or Another, Maria, Dreaming, X Offender, Sunday Girl, Denis, Good Boys, Picture This, Union City Blue, In the Flesh, (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear, Rip Her to Shreds, War Child, Island of Lost Souls, Nothing Is Real but the Girl, No Exit, The Hardest Part. Excerpt: "The Tide Is High" is a 1967 song written by John Holt and originally performed by The Paragons with John Holt as lead singer. The song went mainly unnoticed in the rest of the world until it was rediscovered in 1980 when it became a US/UK number 1 hit for the band Blondie. The British girl group Atomic Kitten also had a no.1 with their version of the song in 2002, and it was also a hit for Kardinal Offishall. The song was written by John Holt and originally recorded by The Paragons, the vocal trio of which he was a member. It was produced by Duke Reid and released as a 7-inch single on Reid's Treasure Isle and Trojan labels and as the B-side of the "Only a Smile" single. The song features the violin of "White Rum" Raymond and was popular in Jamaica and became popular amongst West Indians and skinheads in the UK when a deejay version by U-Roy was released in 1971. Both tracks from the single were included on the 1970 collection On the Beach. The song was released as a single in 1978 by Gregory Isaacs, a version produced by "Prince" Tony Robinson. It was released on the State Line label in the US, on Isaacs own African Museum label in Jamaica, and on the Front Line label in Jamaica as a 12-inch discomix featuring a new deejay version by U Roy. "The Tide Is High" was covered by US new wave band Blondie in 1980, in a reggae/ska style that included horns and strings. It was released as a single, and appeared on the band's fifth...