Funeral Blues Funeral Blues "Funeral Blues" or "Stop all the clocks" is a poem by W. H. Auden. An early version was published in 1936, but the poem in its final, familiar form was first published in "The Year's Poetry" (London, 1938). The first, and less widely known, version of the poem, written and published in 1936, has five stanzas; the 1938 final version has four. Only the first two stanzas are the same in both versions. The 1936 version was a satiric poem of mourning for a political leader, written for the verse play "The Ascent of F6", by Auden and
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