Blue Is the Colour (song) became a hit in Australia. In 1978, the song was re-recorded as "White Is The Colour" for the Vancouver Whitecaps FC and became a local hit. The Scottish rock duo The Proclaimers re-recorded "White Is The Colour" for the Whitecaps' 2002 season, and performed it live during half-time of a game. Since the club's move to the MLS in 2011, it has been the entrance song for every home game at BC Place. The song has been modified into Danish by Flemming Anthony into the title "Rød-hvide farver" (Red and white colours). The song was the official supporter's song for
The Colour of Blood nominated for the Booker Prize. The Colour of Blood The Colour of Blood, published in 1987, is a political thriller by Northern Irish-Canadian novelist Brian Moore about Stephen Bem, a Cardinal in an unnamed East European country who is in conflict with the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy and finds himself caught in the middle of an escalating revolution. Clancy Sigal, writing in "The New York Times", described the novel as a study of faith under pressure: "Almost in thriller form, it is also a wise and illuminating meditation on the labyrinthine forces at work in a Roman Catholic Communist country