(Is This the Way to) Amarillo media appearances to "Tony Christie featuring Peter Kay". However, Kay does not appear on the record, since it is a re-issue of the original version and not a re-recording. Having sold 1.2 million copies by the end of 2009, "(Is This the Way to) Amarillo" was the third best-selling single of the 2000s in the UK, behind "Anything Is Possible"/"Evergreen" by Will Young and "Unchained Melody" by Gareth Gates. As of March 2017, it has sold 1.28 million copies. The Dutch singer Albert West covered the song in 1988. After the successful re-release of the song in the UK, Tony
Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang is a science fiction novel by American writer Kate Wilhelm, published in 1976. The novel is composed of three parts, "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang," "Shenandoah," and "At the Still Point," and is set in a post-apocalyptic era, a concept popular among authors who took part in the New Wave Science Fiction movement in the 1960s. Before the publication of Wilhelm's novel in 1976, part one of "Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang" was featured in the fifteenth edition of "Orbit." Kate Wilhelm was a regular contributor