Refugee Blues Refugee Blues "Refugee Blues" is a poem by W. H. Auden, written in 1939, one of a number of poems Auden wrote in the mid- to late-1930s in blues and other popular metres, for example the meter he used in his love poem "Calypso", written around the same time. The poem dramatizes the condition of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the years before World War II, especially the indifference and antagonism they faced when seeking asylum in the democracies of the period. In some later editions of Auden's poetry, the poem is not identified by name but is the
Stop the Clocks shop 'Granny Takes a Trip' on the Kings Road in Chelsea, London. The album debuted at number two in the UK charts selling over 50,000 copies in its first day of release and 216,000 in its first week of release, surprisingly not selling enough to knock off the top spot to "The Love Album", by Irish boy band Westlife. By the end of the year "Stop the Clocks" had sold 898,000 copies in the UK making it the 7th biggest selling album of the year. It also debuted at number 89 on the US "Billboard" 200, starting with 18,000 units