Clouds Across the Moon

In an interview with Smash Hits on 8 May 1985, Richard Anthony Hewson said that the song took place in the future where there was a 100-year long war on Mars. In regard to the phone call featured in the song, Hewson said that it was "much more difficult to make these calls since British Telecom was privatized." Hewson also mentioned that the phone call cost about "five million six hundred and forty thousand pounds and forty pence." It’s been suggested the song’s reference to "Flight 247" was included to garner airplay from BBC Radio 1 who at one time had broadcast on the wavelength of 247 metres on the medium wave band. This however is unlikely as Radio 1 had switched to broadcasting on 275 & 285 metres in 1978, nearly 7 years before the song’s release.”{{cite journal|title=Rah Band - Foiled Again|journal=Smash Hits|date=8 May 1985|volume=10|issue=7|page=4|url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/51106326@N00/sets/72157644672611700/with/14193827368/}} The vocals were performed by Hewson's wife Liz.{{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/artist/RAH+Band |title=RAH Band Discography |publisher=Discogs |accessdate=29 February 2012}}

• "Clouds Across the Moon" was first remixed in 1999 by German house group Tiefschwarz. The remix peaked at No. 85 on the GfK Entertainment Charts.{{cite web|title=Offizielle Deutsche Charts|url=https://www.offiziellecharts.de/titel-details-125507|accessdate=2 December 2017|work=www.offiziellecharts.de|date=3 May 1999|language=de}}
• "Clouds Across the Moon 07" is a remix of the original recording. The vocals were re-recorded by vocalist Emma Charles and the single was released by Shocking Music in July 2007. Hewson states that the single was remixed and released in response to "the phenomenal demand by fans and DJs, for a modern mix of the 1985 'classic'". As well as new vocals, the new version has a more jazz-funk feel than the original, but still retains the original synthesizer and drum machine.[http://www.music-house.co.uk/eurosolution/release_information.php?SingleID=2044 Euro Solution | Release information | The Rah Band feat Emma Charles: Clouds Across The Moon] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927043238/http://www.music-house.co.uk/eurosolution/release_information.php?SingleID=2044 |date=27 September 2007}}

• In 1995, Japanese techno producer Yoshinori Sunahara covered the song for his debut album, Crossover.{{cite news|last=Porter|first=Charlie|title=New album releases|work=The Times|date=24 January 1998|page=11|quote=What's best is the first known cover of that Eighties space-age weepy, Clouds Across the Moon by the Rah Band, which sounds as if it were performed by an Oriental Bucks Fizz.}}
• In 1998, Norwegian electronic duo Frost covered the song for their debut album, Bedsit Theories. It peaked at No. 13 on the VG-lista chart.{{cite web|title=Clouds Across The Moon|url=https://www.vglista.no/sanger/clouds-across-the-moon/|website=VG-lista|access-date=4 December 2017|language=nb-NO|date=14 September 1998}}
• In 2022, West End singer Joanna Riding performed the song during an episode of the same name in British TV Series McDonald & Dodds,{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14700526/ |title=Episode 4, Series 3 "Clouds across the moon" |publisher=IMDB}} accompanied only by a piano.{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14700526/soundtrack/ |title=Soundtrack for Episode 4, Series 3 "Clouds across the moon" |publisher=IMDB}}

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• [http://www.therahband.com Official RAH Band website]

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