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
Blues Funeral including Soulsavers and The Gutter Twins, "Blues Funeral" is Mark Lanegan's first new material in eight years, since "Bubblegum" (2004) Upon its release, "Blues Funeral" received widespread critical acclaim and charted in six countries within the week of its release, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Following extensive collaborations with Isobel Campbell, former vocalist and celloist of indie pop band Belle & Sebastian, Lanegan began working on "Blues Funeral" after the tour in promotion of their third collaborative studio album, "Hawk" (2010). The tour concluded on October 29, 2010 in Los Angeles, California and Lanegan