The song was originally written for movie and recording star Divine, who was unable to record the song before his death in 1988.

Enya achieved a breakthrough in her career in 1988 with the album Watermark, which featured the hit song " Orinoco Flow " ( sometimes incorrectly known as " Sail Away ").

It includes most of her hits from 1988 to 2008 including a new version of " Aníron ", a song created for " The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring " in 2001.

* The Kelly Family recorded the song twice: live version is included on their 1988 album Live and a studio version-on 1990 New World.

*" Heavy Metal ", a 1988 song by Judas Priest from Ram It Down

The George and Ira Gershwin Lifetime Musical Achievement Award was established in 1988 by UCLA to honor the brothers for their contribution to music and for their gift to UCLA of the fight song " Strike Up the Band for UCLA ".

Twenty years after his first CD, Kaira ( Hannibal, 1988 )-that was also the first CD ever recorded with solo kora pieces without any song -, Toumani Diabate alternates traditional pieces on a kora with leather rings and his own creations with a special tuning on a kora with wooden pegs.

To mark the club's appearance in the 1988 FA Cup Final, Liverpool released a song known as the " Anfield Rap ", featuring John Barnes and other members of the squad.

Bobby McFerrin's 1988 Grammy Award-winning song " Don't Worry, Be Happy " was inspired by a popular quote of Baba seen in numerous Baba posters and inspirational cards.

The band performed the suite in concert on five occasions: in 1988, 1991, 1993, and twice in 1994 without replicating the song list.

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In 1988, the band Blue Öyster Cult recorded an updated version of their 1974 song " Astronomy ".

* Israeli pop superstar Ofra Haza recorded the song entitled " שיר אהבה " ( Love Song ) on her 1988 album " Shaday ".

* Steve Earle's " Snake Oil ": Singer-songwriter Steve Earle recorded a song critical of the Ronald Reagan administration entitled " Snake Oil " for the album Copperhead Road, released in 1988.

* The song figures prominently in a plotline on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope in October 1988 when villain Max Dubujax plants a bomb in a music box that plays the tune.

In 1988, while recording his album Full Moon Fever, Tom Petty and his lead guitarist Mike Campbell called on the group to provide backing vocals for the song " Waiting for Tonight ".

The band remained stable enough to record If I Should Fall from Grace with God in 1988 ( with its Christmas hit duet with Kirsty MacColl " Fairytale of New York ", which was voted " the best Christmas song ever " in VH1 UK polls in 2004 ) and 1989's Peace and Love.

In 1988, for the 80th anniversary of the song and the 100th anniversary of the poem Casey at the Bat, Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford constructed a fanciful story ( later expanded to book form as Casey on the Loose ) which posited Katie Casey as being the daughter of the famous slugger from the poem.

* Terminator ( 1988 ), song by metal band Powermad

" Also, the song " You Know What You Are " from the 1988 album The Land of Rape and Honey by industrial metal group Ministry repeats the song title ( a portion of Tuco's final epithet at Blondie ) as a background sample.

Live-action footage of an actor portraying Zippy ( Ron Brannan ) and singing a song about the character was included in the 1988 documentary Comic Book Confidential.

", 1988 song by Cacophony from their album Go Off!

Swass, his debut album, was released in 1988, with two other singles: " Square-Dance Rap " and a hip hop cover of the Black Sabbath song " Iron Man " backed by the band Metal Church.

Dame Jean was at one time a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, patron of the Dandie Dinmont Club, a breed of dog named after one of Sir Walter Scott's characters ; and a horse trainer, one of whose horses, Sir Wattie, ridden by Ian Stark, won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

After winning the Dutch Mixing Championships ( DMC ) in 1988, he was invited for The World Mix Championships in the London Royal Hall and won third place in a fierce competition.

** won the Golden Palm at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival and an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Under Walsh the 49ers won Super Bowl championships in 1981, 1984 and 1988.

Chelsea won the Second Division title in 1983 – 84 and established themselves in the top division, before being relegated again in 1988.

He won three times in 1988, finishing third in the points standings behind Bill Elliott and Rusty Wallace.

In 1988 they won their first division title in 23 years ( since 1964 – 65, when they finished first in a one-division league ).

Rodrigo Borja Cevallos of the Democratic Left ( ID ) party won the presidency in 1988, running in the runoff election against Abdalá Bucaram of the PRE.

The form book was rewritten in 1988 with the entry of the ambitious Reynard marque with a brand new chassis ; Reynard had won their first race in every formula they'd entered.

His first team honours came at Barcelona, where he won the Copa del Rey in 1988 and the European Cup Winners ' Cup in 1989.

Also in 1988, Polgár won the under-12 " Boys " section of the World Youth Chess and Peace Festival in Timişoara, Romania.

In 1988, if Kemp had won his campaign for the United States Presidency, it would have made him the first person to move from the United States House of Representatives to the White House since James Garfield.

In 1988, Ashcroft won an even bigger victory over his opponent Betty Cooper Hearnes, wife of former governor Warren Hearnes.

) Dalglish's final appearance for Scotland, after 15 years as a full international, was on 12 November 1986 at Hampden Park in a Euro 1988 qualifying game against Luxembourg, which Scotland won 3 – 0.

For television von Trier directed Medea ( 1988 ), which won the Jean d ' Arcy prize in France.

The team became Greek Champion in 1988 and won the Greek Cup in 1985 & 2007.

The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize and the Mainichi Film Award for Best Film in 1988.

The combination of Prost and Senna was particularly dominant — together they won all but one race in 1988 — but later their rivalry soured and Prost left for Ferrari.

* Falling Free – won the Nebula Award for Best Novel of 1988 ; nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1989

During their history, the Mets have won two World Series titles ( 1969 and 1986 ), four National League pennants ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 2000 ) and five National League East titles ( 1969, 1973, 1986, 1988, 2006 ).

The Mets continued playing well after 1986 and won the division in 1988, but lost the playoffs that year and declined into the 1990s.

Naguib Mahfouz (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006 ) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

From 1988 to 1996, the Eagles qualified for the playoffs during 6 out of those 9 seasons, but they won the NFC East only once, in 1988.

Four Hundred Billion Stars, his first novel, won the Philip K. Dick Award in 1988.