Where the Rose Is Sown Where the Rose Is Sown Where the Rose is Sown is a song by Scottish rock band Big Country, released in 1984 as the second single from their second studio album "Steeltown". It was written by Big Country and produced by Steve Lillywhite. "Where the Rose Is Sown" peaked at No. 29 in the UK and No. 25 in Ireland. A music video was filmed to promote the single. It received medium rotation on MTV. Upon release, Lesley White of "Smash Hits" commented: "More of the same from the frustrated messiahs of contemporary rock. A treat for lovers of "real
Of the Blue Colour of the Sky in producer Dave Fridmann's Tarbox Road Studios, a converted Amish barn in Cassadaga, New York, through May the following year. Bassist Tim Nordwind described the process of the studio sessions as a midpoint between the slick production work done on "OK Go" and the emphasis on live takes with the recording of "Oh No". "Of the Blue Colour of the Sky"'s accompanying booklet presents the album as a concept based on an unnamed passage from "The Influence of the Blue Ray of the Sunlight and of the Blue Colour of the Sky" by General A.J. Pleasonton. The title of this