Big Country

UK

Formed: 1981

Years Active: 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Pop/Rock

Styles: New Wave, Punk/New Wave, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, College Rock, Adult Alternative Pop/Rock

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With their ringing, bagpipe-like guitars and the anthemic songs of frontman Stuart Adamson, Scotland's Big Country emerged as one of the most distinctive and promising new rock bands of the early '80s, scoring a major hit with their debut album, The Crossing; though the group's critical and commercial fortunes dimmed in the years to follow, they nevertheless outlasted virtually all of their contemporaries, releasing new material into the next century. The England-born Adamson formed Big Country in mid-1981 following his exit from the Scottish p...

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