Funeral Blues and piano in a collection of settings of Auden poems under the title "Cabaret Songs". "Funeral Blues" is copyrighted by the Estate of W. H. Auden. According to The W. H. Auden Society, only Random House, Faber & Faber, and Curtis Brown Ltd. can give permission to reprint the text. It is the English contribution to the statue commemorating the Heysel Stadium disaster, where a retaining wall collapsed, resulting in 39 deaths on 29 May 1985, when Liverpool F.C. played Juventus FC in the European Cup final. The poem is read in its entirety in the 1994 British romantic comedy
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