Saturday classics – 21.2

I came across this song while listening to songs on Spotify; I hadn’t heard it in a long time, and I liked it then, I like it now. It has emotion, the song’s depth, and emotional connection. That is always important to me in music, Rockferry, explores the enduring impacts of heartbreak from a relationship that was never meant to last.

In a March 2009 interview with Independent Magazine, Duffy reflected on the song’s unexpected success, stating, “I wrote it from a secretive perspective. Everyone is talking about it now. It meant something different to me all those years ago.” The poignant music video features almost exclusively a single shot of Duffy crying in the back seat of a black cab. Initially, the video was intended to show her walking down the street with a red balloon, but the director opted for the cab scene for its deeper emotional resonance.

The well-known song “Warwick Avenue” was co-written by Aimée Ann Duffy (Duffy), Eg White, and Jimmy Hogarth, and was released in 2008, produced by Jimmy Hogarth.