Editing Eric Bogle

{{Short description|Scottish folk musician}}
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| caption         = Bogle during the ''[[Festival Interceltique de Lorient]]'' in 2016
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| birth_place     = [[Peebles]], Scotland
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| genre           = [[Folk music|Folk]]
| occupation      = Singer-songwriter
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| associated_acts = [[John Campbell Munro]]
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'''Eric Bogle''' (born 23 September 1944) is an Australian [[folk music|folk]] singer-songwriter. Born and raised in Scotland, he emigrated to Australia at the age of 25 to settle near [[Adelaide]], [[South Australia]]. Bogle's songs have covered a variety of topics and have been performed by many artists. Two of his best known songs are "[[No Man's Land (Eric Bogle song)|No Man's Land]]" (or "The Green Fields of France") and "[[And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda]]", with the latter named one of the [[APRA Top 30 Australian songs]] in 2001 as part of the celebrations for the [[Australasian Performing Right Association]]'s 75th anniversary.

==Early years==
Eric Bogle was born on 23 September 1944 in [[Peebles]], Scotland. His father was a railway signalman who played the [[Great Highland Bagpipe|bagpipes]].<ref name="Haliday"/><ref name="MABio"/> Bogle started writing poetry when he was eight years old.<ref name="MABio"/> After attending school until he was sixteen, he worked in various trades: labourer, clerk and barman.<ref name="MABio"/> In 1969, he emigrated to Australia and initially lived in the capital, [[Canberra]], where he worked as an accountant.<ref name="Haliday"/> He had an interest in politics and by 1980 had moved to Queensland before settling in Adelaide.<ref name="Haliday"/>

== Career ==
[[File:Eric Bogle at Georgetown Folk Festival 1994.jpg|thumb|Bogle on stage at the 1994 Tamar Valley Folk Festival, [[George Town, Tasmania|George Town]], Australia]]
Bogle taught himself to play guitar and joined a [[skiffle]] and rock band.<ref name="MABio"/> He was the leader of Eric and the Informers in Scotland.<ref name="Haliday"/> His early influences were [[Lonnie Donegan]], [[Elvis Presley]] and [[Ewan MacColl]].<ref name="MABio"/> He turned to folk music prior to emigrating to Australia – his first written songs concerned his parents. One of these, "Leaving Nancy", which sang of the day he left home for Australia, being the last time he saw his mother Nancy, was often covered, most notably by [[the Dubliners]] and [[the Fureys]].<ref name="Haliday"/> When living in Canberra he joined the local folk music scene and performed occasionally.<ref name="MABio"/>

Several of his most famous songs tell of the futility or loss of war. Prominent among these is "[[And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda]]", written in 1971, later covered by [[Joan Baez]], [[The Pogues]] and many more. The lyrics recount the experiences of a member of the [[Australian and New Zealand Army Corps]] (ANZAC) in the [[Battle of Gallipoli]]. It has also been interpreted as a reaction to the [[Vietnam War]].

Another of his best-known songs, "[[No Man's Land (Eric Bogle song)|No Man's Land]]", is also World War I-themed. This song is commonly known as "The Green Fields of France", a title it was first given by [[the Fureys]] and which has subsequently been used in many further [[cover version]]s. The song refers to the traditional Scottish song "[[Flowers of the Forest]]" being played over the grave of a [[World War I]] soldier. Bogle deliberately gave the dead soldier an Irish name ("Willie McBride") as a counter to the anti-Irish sentiment prevalent in Britain during the 1970s. The song has been covered by Alex Beaton (with "A Scottish Soldier" from ''The Water is Wide''), [[Plethyn]] ("Gwaed ar eu Dwylo" (Blood on their Hands), sung in [[Welsh language|Welsh]] from "Blas y Pridd"), [[Hannes Wader]] ("Es ist an der Zeit" (It is the Time)), and [[Netherlands|Dutch]] folk band [[Wolverlei]] as "14-18". American folk singer [[Charlie Zahm]] also has a version on his album ''Festival Favorites'', as does American folk singer Robert Marr on his 2011 album ''Celticism''. The lyrics from the song were referred to by former British prime minister [[Tony Blair]] in 2003 as his favourite anti-war poem.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/music/and-the-band-plays-on-20030224-gdv9wt.html|title=And the band plays on ...|date=24 February 2003|newspaper=[[The Age]]}}</ref>

"As if he Knows" (2001) widens the theme of the wastage of war to describe the sadness of Australian mounted soldiers in Palestine in 1918 as they are obliged to shoot their horses, "who asked so little and gave so much", before embarkation.

Another notable song on a similar theme, but with a more contemporary setting, is [[the Troubles]]-inspired "My Youngest Son Came Home Today", with its tale of a young man killed during fighting in [[Northern Ireland]]. Notably, the song does not take sides in the conflict; it does not mention whether the title character is a nationalist or loyalist. However, the song has been adopted by Nationalists and is now associated with [[Irish Republicanism]]. When [[Billy Bragg]] covered the song, he changed the line "dreams of ''freedom'' unfulfilled" (which echoes the language of Nationalists) to "dreams of ''glory'' unfulfilled". 

Bogle's songs cover a wide range of subjects and themes, including comedic songs ("The Aussie [[Barbecue|Bar-B-Q]]") ,songs of real life emotion “Daniel Smiling “, The Enigma” , “One Small Star” and “ Now I'm Easy". Few would tackle a subject such as Cerebral Palsy,  yet Eric knew the daughter of his friend Ray Smith and wrote “Rosie”,a most endearing song where many find that they join in the chorus .His song "Safe in the Harbour" is an homage to [[Stan Rogers]]. "Katie and the Dreamtime Land" is a tribute to American folk singer [[Kate Wolf]], who died from [[leukemia]] in 1986. Other well-known songs, with lighter subject matter, include two homages to departed pets, "Little Gomez" and "Nobody's Moggy Now" and an acknowledgment of his folk music fans with "Do You Sing Any Dylan?".

In 2000 a five-CD collection, ''Singing The Spirit Home'', was released. His first and only live performance DVD was released in May 2009.

==Touring==
[[File:Eric Bogle-John Munro 2009.jpg|thumb|Bogle (left) with [[John Campbell Munro|John Munro]] in Watford during their 2009 farewell tour]]
Bogle has undertaken an extensive concert tour of the UK (sometimes including appearances in continental Europe as well), every three years since 1985. These tours have usually included a supporting cast of Australian-based singers and musicians, most regularly [[John Campbell Munro|John Munro]] and [[Brent Miller (Musician)|Brent Miller]]. Bogle said that his 2009 tour, with John Munro, would be his last overseas tour. This featured a ''Saturday Night Special'' on 27 June with Martyn Wyndham-Read, Johnny Collins and Les Sullivan in [[Watford]], the closest venue to London.

More recent tours in Australia have included Adelaide-based musicians Emma Luker (fiddle) and Pete Titchener (guitar/bass)

Bogle was a prominent artist at the [[National Folk Festival (Australia)|National Folk Festival]] in Canberra over Easter 2011 as well as a regular artist at the [[Port Fairy Folk Festival]] held in [[Port Fairy]], Victoria, every March.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.folkfestival.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/friday.pdf|title=Program|website=Folkfestival.asn.au|access-date=11 November 2017|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726071822/http://www.folkfestival.asn.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/friday.pdf|archive-date=26 July 2011}}</ref>

Many of Bogle's songs have been covered by other artists; including [[Joan Baez]], [[John Schumann]], [[Donovan]], [[the Skids]], [[June Tabor]], [[the Men They Couldn't Hang]], [[the Clancy Brothers]], [[the Dubliners]], [[John McDermott (singer)|John McDermott]], [[Liam Clancy]], [[Mike Harding]], [[the Pogues]], [[De Dannan]], [[Dropkick Murphys]], [[the Corries]], [[Billy Bragg]], [[The Bushwackers (band)|the Bushwackers]], [[Slim Dusty]], [[Mary Black]], [[the Fureys]], and [[John Williamson (singer)|John Williamson]]. In May 2001 the [[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA), as part of its 75th anniversary celebrations, named his song "[[And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda]]" as one of the [[APRA Top 30 Australian songs|Top 30 Australian songs]] of all time.<ref name="Kruger"/>

==Discography==
===Studio albums===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!rowspan="2"| Title
!rowspan="2"| Album details
!| Peak chart positions
|-
!style="width:3em;font-size:75%"|[[Kent Music Report|AUS]]<ref name=aus>{{cite book|last=Kent|first=David|authorlink=David Kent (historian)|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|edition=illustrated|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, N.S.W.|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6|page=39}}</ref>
|-
! scope="row"|''Now I'm Easy'' 
|
*Released: 1980
*Label: Larrikin Records (LRF041) 
| -
|-
! scope="row"|''Plain & Simple'' <br> (with John Munro)
|
*Released: 1981
*Label: Grass Roots (GR 172815)
| -
|-
! scope="row"|''Scraps of Paper'' <br> (With John Munro and Brent Miller) 
|
*Released: September 1982
*Label: Larrikin Records (LRF104) 
| 84
|-
! scope="row"|''When The Wind Blows'' <br> (With John Munro and Brent Miller) 
|
*Released: July 1984
*Label: Larrikin Records (LRF144) 
| 78
|-
! scope="row"|''Hard, Hard Times'' <br> (With John Munro) 
|
*Released: 1985
*Label: Folk Freak (FF-404018) 
| 
|-
! scope="row"|''The Anzacs'' <br> (with [[Ted Egan]], [[Judy Small]], Nerys Evans and the Anzac Band & Singers)
|
*Released: 1985
*Label: Faces of Australia Series, ABC Records (TELP 1003)
| —
|-
! scope="row"|''Singing the Spirit Home'' 
|
*Released: November 1986
*Label: Larrikin Records (LRF186) 
| 96
|-
! scope="row"|''Something of Value'' 
|
*Released: 1988
*Label: Larrikin Records (LRF220) 
| —
|-
! scope="row"|''Voices in the Wilderness''
|
*Released: 1990
*Label: Larrikin Records (L 30413)
| —
|-
! scope="row"|''Mirrors''
|
*Released: 1993
*Label: Larrikin Records (LRF 282)
| —
|-
! scope="row"|''The Emigrant & The Exile''<br> (with John Munro)
|
*Released: 1996
*Label: Larrikin Records (LRF478)
| —
|-
! scope="row"|''Small Miracles''
|
*Released: 1997
*Label: Larrikin Records (LRF473)
| —
|-
! scope="row"|''Endangered Species''
|
*Released: 1999
*Label: Acmec Records (ACMEC001)
| —
|-
! scope="row"|''The Colour of Dreams''
|
*Released: 2002
*Label: Rouseabout Records (RRR33)
| —
|-
! scope="row"|''Other People's Children''
|
*Released: 2005
*Label: Rouseabout Records (RRR39)
| —
|-
! scope="row"|''The Dreamer''
|
*Released: 2009
*Label: Rouseabout Records (RRR47)
| —
|-
! scope="row"|''A Toss of the Coin'' <br> (with John Munro)
|
*Released: 2013
*Label: Rouseabout Records (RRR61)
| —
|-
! scope="row"|''Voice'' <br> (with John Munro)
|
*Released: 2016
*Label: 
| —
|-
! scope="row"|''The Source of Light'' <br> (with John Munro)
|
*Released: 2021
*Label: Greentrax
| —
|-
|}

===Live albums===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!rowspan="2"| Title
!rowspan="2"| Album details
!| Peak chart positions
|-
!style="width:3em;font-size:75%"|[[Kent Music Report|AUS]]
|-
! scope="row"|''In Person'' / ''Vol. 1 – Live in Person''
|
*Released: 1977 (Germany)
*Label: Autogram (ALLP-211)
*Note: Recorded live in Germany, February 1977
| -
|-
! scope="row"|''Vol. 2 – Down Under''
|
*Released: 1982 (Germany)<ref name="theballadeers.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.theballadeers.com/au/eb_1977_ip.htm#notes|title=Eric Bogle – Volume 1 – In Person: Folk Music, etc. from Australia at theBalladeers|website=Theballadeers.com|access-date=11 November 2017|archive-date=12 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012153932/http://www.theballadeers.com/au/eb_1977_ip.htm#notes|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="ericbogle.net">{{cite web|url=http://www.ericbogle.net/cds/index.htm|title=Welcome to the official Eric Bogle Website|website=Ericbogle.net|access-date=11 November 2017}}</ref>
*Label: Autogram (ALLP-220) 
*Note: Recorded live in Australia February & May 1977
| -
|-
! scope="row"|''Vol. 3 – Pure''
|
*Released: 1982 (Germany)<ref name="theballadeers.com"/><ref name="ericbogle.net"/>
*Label: Autogram (ALLP-253)
*Note: Recorded in 1977
| -
|-
! scope="row"|''Eric Bogle In Concert'' <br> (with John Munro & Brent Miller)
|
*Released: 1985 
*Label: Larrikin Records (LRF160) 
*Note: Recorded at the Octagon Theatre, Perth in August 1984.
| -
|-
! scope="row"|''I Wrote This Wee Song...''
|
*Released: 1994 
*Label: ABC Records (4797422 
*Note: Recorded live at the Adelaide Arts Theatre on 31 July 1993
| -
|}

===Compilations===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!rowspan="2"| Title
!rowspan="2"| Album details
!| Peak chart positions
|-
!style="width:3em;font-size:75%"|[[Kent Music Report|AUS]]
|-
! scope="row"|''The Eric Bogle Songbook''
|
*Released: August 1986
*Label: Axis (AX.701256)
| -
|-
! scope="row"|''The Eric Bogle Songbook Volume 2''
|
*Released: 1992
*Label: Greentrax (CDTRAX 051)
| -
|-
! scope="row"|''The Gift of Years: Very Best of Eric Bogle''
|
*Released: 2000
*Label: EMI (724352485123)
| -
|-
! scope="row"|''By Request''
|
*Released: 2001 (Europe)
*Label: Greentrax (CDTRAX 210)
| -
|-
! scope="row"|''Singing The Spirit Home''
|
*Released: 2001
*Label: EMI (724353552022)
*Note: 5×CD set
| -
|-
! scope="row"|''At This Stage: The Live Collection'' 
|
*Released: 2005
*Label: Greentrax (CDTRAX286)/Rouseabout Records (RRR38)
*Note: 2×CD set
| -
|}

===Videos===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center;"
|-
!rowspan="2"| Title
!rowspan="2"| Album details
!| Peak chart positions
|-
!style="width:3em;font-size:75%"|[[Kent Music Report|AUS]]
|-
! scope="row"|''Live at Stoneyfell Winery''
|
*Released: 2009
*Label: Greentrax (DVTRAX2022)
*Recorded live at Stoneyfell Winery, Adelaide,on 1 March 2009
| -
|}

==Awards==
On 25 January 1987, Bogle was appointed a [[Order of Australia|Member of the Order of Australia]] "In recognition of service to the performing arts as a song writer and singer."<ref name="Order"/>

===ARIA Music Awards===
The [[ARIA Music Awards]] are an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation and achievement across all genres of [[Australian music]]. They commenced in 1987.
{{awards table}}
! {{Abbr|Ref.|Reference}}
|-
| [[ARIA Music Awards of 1989|1989]]
| rowspan="3"| ''Something of Value''
| [[ARIA Award for Best Independent Release|Best Independent Release]]
| {{nom}}
|<ref name="ARIA1989A">{{cite web| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120210152749/http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/1989 | url=http://www.ariaawards.com.au/history/year/1989|title=ARIA Awards – History: Winners by Year: 3rd Annual ARIA Awards|publisher=[[Australian Recording Industry Association]] (ARIA) | archive-date = 10 February 2012 |access-date=26 October 2020 }}</ref><ref name="TallP1989A">{{cite web|url=http://alldownunder.com/oz-p/aria/1989-aria.htm |title=Australia 1989 ARIA Awards |publisher=ALLdownunder.com |access-date=5 December 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225205749/http://www.alldownunder.com/oz-p/aria/1989-aria.htm |archive-date=25 February 2009 }}</ref>
|-
{{end}}

===Mo Awards===
The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the [[Mo Awards]]), were annual Australian entertainment industry awards. They recognised achievements in live entertainment in Australia from 1975 to 2016. Bogle won one award in that time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.moawards.com.au/awardwinners|title=MO Award Winners|website=Mo Awards|access-date=16 March 2022}}</ref>
{{awards table}} (wins only)
|-
| 1990
| Eric Bogle
| Folk Performer of the Year
| {{won}}
|-
{{end}}

===National Folk Festival===
{{awards table}} (wins only)
|-
| 2019<ref>{{cite web|url=https://the-riotact.com/bogles-night-as-national-folk-festival-gets-under-way/297826|title=Bogle's night as National Folk Festival gets under way|website=the riot act|date=April 2019|access-date=24 March 2022}}</ref>
| Eric Bogle
| Lifetime Achievement Award
| {{yes2|awarded}}
|-
{{end}}

===Tamworth Songwriters Association===
The Tamworth Songwriters Association (TSA) is an annual songwriting contest for original country songs, awarded in January at the [[Tamworth Country Music Festival]]. They commenced in 1986. Bogle has won three awards.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tsaonline.com.au/song-competition/|title=Tamworth Songwriters Association|website=Tamworth Songwriters Association Online|access-date=23 March 2022}}</ref>
{{awards table}} (wins only)
|-
| 1987
| Eric Bogle
| Songmaker Award
| {{yes2|awarded}}
|-
| 1988
| Eric Bogle
| Tex Morton Award
| {{yes2|awarded}}
|-
| 1991
| "Silly Slang Song" by Eric Bogle
| Comedy/Novelty Song of the Year 
| {{won}}
|-
{{end}}

==References==
{{Reflist|refs=
<ref name="Haliday">{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-an45017174 |title=Songlines: Eric Bogle and John Schumann in Concert and Conversation |last1=Halday | first1=Bronwyn |last2=Meikle |first2=Ian |last3=Bogle |first3=Eric |last4=Schumann |first4=John |author-link4=John Schumann |last5=Wordley |first5=Mick |last6=Munro |first6=John C|work=[[Music Australia (online resource)|Music Australia]] |publisher=[[National Library of Australia]] |date=22 December 2009 |access-date=12 December 2011 }}</ref>

<ref name="MABio">{{cite web |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.cs-ma-ANL%3AMA~1060890 |title=Eric Bogle (1944–) |work=Music Australia |publisher=National Library of Australia |date=10 August 2004 |access-date=12 December 2011 }}{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

<ref name="Order">{{cite web |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/869848 |title=Bogle, Eric |work=It's an Honour – Honours – Search Australian Honours |publisher=[[Government of Australia]] |date=26 January 1987 |access-date=12 December 2011}}</ref>

<ref name="Kruger">{{cite web|url=http://www.debbiekruger.com/pdfs/aprathirty.pdf|last=Kruger |first=Debbie |author-link=Debbie Kruger |title=The songs that resonate through the years |publisher=[[Australasian Performing Right Association]] (APRA) |date=2 May 2001 |access-date=11 December 2001 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081030100404/http://www.debbiekruger.com/pdfs/aprathirty.pdf |archive-date=30 October 2008}}</ref>
}}

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last=Walsh |first=Michael J. K. |date=2018 |title=Eric Bogle, music and the Great War : 'An old man's tears' |location=Abingdon; New-York |publisher=Routledge |page=179 |isbn=9781138719118}}

==External links==
* {{discogs artist|Eric Bogle}}
*{{MusicBrainz artist|id=ede97bcb-181b-4a3a-a939-b2c544193b5f}}
* {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070402073417/http://interview.onlyoneworld.net/ebogle/index.html |date=2 April 2007 |title=Interview with Eric Bogle (2007) }}

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