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The Ballad of Ronnie Drew

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B-side
  
Easy and Slow

Format
  
CD, download

Length
  
4:52

Released
  
19 February 2008

Genre
  
Irish folk, rock

Recorded
  
January 2008, Windmill Lane Studios, Dublin

"The Ballad of Ronnie Drew" is a single by U2, The Dubliners, Kíla and A Band of Bowsies. The single was recorded as a charitable project, with proceeds going to the Irish Cancer Society - owing to Ronnie Drew's cancer condition. It was recorded at Windmill Lane on 14 and 15 January 2008. "The Ballad of Ronnie Drew" is available as a CD in Ireland only. Ronnie Drew died a few months after the release of the single in August 2008.

Glen Hansard's vocals on the record were recorded over the telephone, and not in person, as he was in the United States of America for the 80th Academy Awards.

References

The Ballad of Ronnie Drew Wikipedia


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