Lighthouse Family songwriter and keyboardist Paul Tucker tell us below the story behind their signature hit High, a Top 5 hit in 1998.
High was probably the most difficult song to write of all of them. Without getting too heavy, my wife lost a baby on New Years Eve in 1996, the year that the album [Ocean Drive] was a hit.
Lifted was a hit and Ocean Drive was a hit. It was the first week in 1997 I started writing High, and I had the bit: 'One day we’re gonna get so high'.
That was the same week – and this is absolutely incidental, it’s nothing to do with the song - although a Newcastle United fan might think it is – that Kevin Keegan left Newcastle United.
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