19 (song) 19 (song) "19" is a song by British musician Paul Hardcastle released as the first single from his self-titled third studio album "Paul Hardcastle" (1985). The song has a strong anti-war message, focusing on America's involvement in the Vietnam War and the effect it had on the soldiers who served. The track was notable for early use of sampled and processed speech, in particular a synthesized stutter effect used on the words 'nineteen' and 'destruction'. It also includes various non-speech, re-dubbed sampling, such as crowd noise and a military bugle call. "19" features sampled narration (voiced by Peter Thomas), out-of-context
Peter Hardcastle (rower) Peter Hardcastle (rower) Peter Hardcastle (born 14 July 1978) is a British born, Australian rower who competed at the Summer Olympic Games in 2000, 2004, and 2008. His senior rowing was with the Mosman Rowing Club in Sydney. State representation came for Hardcastle in 2002 when he was selected as the New South Wales single sculler to contest the President's Cup at the Interstate Regatta within the Australian Rowing Championships.2002 Interstate Regatta. He raced further President's Cups for New South Wales in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007. On seven occasions between 2001 and 2008 in Mosman's red & white he contested