Don't Let It Die
"Don't Let It Die" | |
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Pop Rock[1] | |
Length | 2:29[2] |
Songwriter(s) | Hurricane Smith[1] |
Producer(s) | Hurricane Smith[1] |
Don't Let It Die is a song written, produced, and sung by
UK Singles Chart,[3] with Middle Of The Road's Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep keeping it from the top spot.[4]
Smith received the 1971
Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically.[5]
The lyrics have an ecological theme, stressing the beauty and fragility of nature, and the human responsibility to look after it, not to "let it die".
References
- ^ a b c d "Don't Let It Die". Discogs. 1971.
- ^ "Don't Let It Die (album)". Discogs. 1972.
- ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
- The Official Charts Company. Archived from the originalon 30 June 2013.
- ^ Lister, David, Pop ballads bite back in lyrical fashion, The Independent, 28 May 1994