Blue Monday Crash 2009 There was speculation that nationalisation was imminent. Billions of pounds were wiped from its stock market value despite the Government’s pledge to keep it afloat with more money from the taxpayer. As Gordon Brown set out plans to increase public ownership to 70 percent of what was once one of the world’s biggest financial conglomerates, City investors dumped the shares in a selling frenzy. Share prices fell as follows : Blue Monday Crash 2009 On Monday, 19 January 2009, a date previously known as Blue Monday, British banking shares collapsed in a rout of selling after Royal Bank of Scotland
Blue Monday (New Order song) I told you to leave me when I walked down to the beach") was featured on the UK version of the group's subsequent album, "Power, Corruption & Lies". New Order appeared on the BBC's "Top of the Pops", on 31 March 1983, to promote the song. New Order insisted on performing Blue Monday live. The performance was dogged by technical problems, and was unrepresentative of the recording. In the words of drummer Stephen Morris, "Blue Monday was never the easiest song to perform, anyway, and everything went wrong. The synthesisers went awry. It sounded awful". In 1985, "Blue Monday" and