The album Sails of Silver saw the band moving away from traditional material to a greater focus on self-penned songs, many with historical or pseudo-folk themes.

After Sails of Silver there were to be no new albums for several years, and Steeleye became a part-time touring band.

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*" Sails of Silver " / " Senior Service " ( 1980 )

* 1980 Sails of Silver ( Steeleye Span )

In 1980, Steeleye Span ’ s Sails of Silver took a decisive move away from traditional songs.

Hart appeared on one more Steeleye Span record, Sails of Silver, before resigning in 1982.

Although articles by the likes of Mick Farren ( whose article " The Titanic Sails At Dawn ", a call for a new street led rock movement in response to stadium rock ) were published by the NME that summer it was felt that younger blood was needed to credibly cover the emerging punk movement, and the paper advertised for a pair of " hip young gunslingers " to join their editorial staff.

Sails was not a commercial success, in part because Chrysalis chose not to promote the album aggressively, but also because many fans felt uncomfortable with the band's new direction in its choice of material.

Brixham is also notable for being the town where the fishing trawler was improved in the 19th century ; their distinctive sails inspired the song " Red Sails in the Sunset ", which was written aboard a Brixham sailing trawler called the Torbay Lass.

This gave the old fishing boats their " Red Sails in the Sunset ", but the purpose was to protect the canvas from sea water.

Tugboat Annie was the subject of a series of Saturday Evening Post magazine stories featuring the character of a female captain of the tugboat Narcissus in Puget Sound, later featured in the films Tugboat Annie ( 1933 ), Tugboat Annie Sails Again ( 1940 ) and Captain Tugboat Annie ( 1945 ).

) Goldberg soon learned San Diego was to be shut out of the pending ABA-NBA merger that would bring the ABA into the National Basketball Association ; the Sails were to be left out reportedly at the insistence of Lakers owner Jack Kent Cooke, who refused to share his Southern California fan base with a team to the south.

Stew Johnson was sent to the San Diego Sails.

This gave the old fishing boats their " Red Sails in the Sunset ", but the purpose was to protect the canvas from seawater, not to be picturesque.

* The songwriter Jimmy Kennedy was inspired by one of the town's sunsets when he wrote " Red Sails in the Sunset ".

This was further modified over the following years, led by boat builders Alistair Duffin, who builds in wood, and Holt Allen ( later Speed Sails Ltd and now Winder Boats ), who manufacture in GRP ( glass-reinforced plastic ) and FRP.

Black Sails in the Sunset was released on May 18, 1999 through Nitro Records.

Black Sails in the Sunset was received well by critics.

* " Weight of Words " was known to be recorded during the Black Sails sessions, but has yet to be released.

* ' Porphyria Cutanea Tarda ' is listed as ' Porphyria ' on the back cover of the album, as it was listed on Black Sails EP.

Their distinctive sails inspired the song Red Sails in the Sunset which was written aboard a Brixham sailing trawler called the Torbay Lass.

" Red Sails in the Sunset " ( 1935 ) was inspired by beautiful summer evenings in his native part of the world, and " South of the Border " by a holiday picture postcard he received from Tijuana, Mexico.

Auckland was also called the " Queen City " since before the turn of the 20th century, though that term is now overshadowed by the nickname " City of Sails ".

On April 22, 2008, Lead Sails Paper Anchor was re-released with new cover art, two bonus tracks, a DVD, and a digital booklet.

In 2001 the Sails of the South was unveiled close to the site of the missing junction.

His first work in this vein was Scarlet Sails, a romantic adventure story set in the late 19th century.

A sequel called Tugboat Annie Sails Again was released in 1940, followed by another called Captain Tugboat Annie in 1945.

* Black Sails ( This set's interesting fact, other than it revealed the black freighter, was that it didn't have normal boosters but rather uber-boosters that gave one of each card in the set )

Sails started to be used from possibly the 8th century.

* Sails used on ships ( 20th century BC ).

* Sails used in the Nile.

Sails are primarily used on the water by sailing ships and sail boats as a propulsion system.

Other folk songs to have their lyrics altered include " The John B. Sails ", " She'll Be Coming ' Round the Mountain ", " My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean ", " The Wild Rover " and " Camptown Races ", which is used for " Two World Wars, One World Cup ", whilst Birmingham City fans sing " Keep Right On to the End of the Road ".

A brand name of North Sails, the gennaker is a cruising sail based on the Code 0 spinnakers used on racing boats.

* Sails used in the Nile.

" The Sails of Charon " was also used in the videogame Gran Turismo 5.

* " Sails " ( song ), a 1969 song by Elton John

* " Best of Both Worlds ", a song from the Midnight Oil album Red Sails in the Sunset

* Okkervil River's song " John Allyn Smith Sails " from their 2007 album The Stage Names is about John Berryman.

*" Red Sails in the Sunset " ( song ), a popular 1935 song recorded by many artists

" Red Sails in the Sunset " is a popular song.

The title of the song provides the inspiration for the Red Sails Festival held annually in Portstewart, Northern Ireland.

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After his successful appearance on Oceanborn, Wilska also performed in the song Tenth Man Down on Over the Hills and Far Away in 2001 and once again with The Pharaoh Sails to Orion on Nightwish's DVD From Wishes to Eternity.