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Thus began a tense, year-long strike, where men would throw pickets — known as "flying pickets" — at pits where miners still worked at.

The Original Flying Pickets. (1994) The Original Flying Pickets: Volume 1 (from CD information booklet). In 2000, Brett played the part of Dedalus Diggle in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.David Brett at CastNet UK. Accessed 17 April 2007.

This is the discography of the British a cappella vocal group The Flying Pickets. The group had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 in the UK Singles Chart with their cover of Yazoo's track "Only You". The Flying Pickets have had very limited commercial success since their breakthrough hit, but continue to release various compilation albums globally up to present day.

Live at the Albany Empire was the first album by the Flying Pickets in 1982, recorded live at the Albany Empire in Deptford, South London.

Brian Hibbard (26 November 1946 - 17 June 2012) was a Welsh actor and singer, best remembered as the lead vocalist in the original The Flying Pickets.

Singles by Spandau Ballet, Men at Work, Michael Jackson, The Flying Pickets and Lionel Richie were also in the top ten best-selling singles of the year.

The Laurie Anderson piece "Speak My Language" is used as well. The Flying Pickets version of "Only You" was used in the last scene of the film.

The song had its strongest chart impact via a 1984 cover version by the Flying Pickets, produced by John Sherry. It reached number 7 in the UK.

Rick Lloyd is a British composer and musical director best known as a member of the original Flying Pickets who had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 with a cover of Yazoo's "Only You". Although the Flying Pickets are known for making a cappella covers of other people's songs, the original songs on their 1984 album Lost Boys were written by Rick Lloyd including the track "Wide Boy".

Although none of the founding members has been part of the band since 1990, The Flying Pickets continue to record albums and to tour all over Europe and abroad.

In 1986, Hibbard and Stripe left the band and were replaced by Gary Howard and Hereward Kaye.Kaye, H., (1986) "Ba Ba Da Da The Flying Pickets - 1986". Accessed 30 March 2007.

Laycock's wife Liz died of cancer in July 2009. They had two sons, Dominic and Andrew. Andrew (Andy) Laycock is a member of the a cappella vocal group The Flying Pickets.

Gary Howard performing at the Isle of Wight Festival in 2010 After his departure from the Flying Pickets in 1994, Howard toured as a singer with the Alan Parsons Live band and appeared on their album. Howard got his first big solo score with an acoustic version of the Gerry & the Pacemakers hit and Liverpool F.C. anthem "You'll Never Walk Alone", which he released with Virgin Records in 1996. This, and his own acoustic versions of Yazoo and Flying Pickets hit "Only You" and Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", as well as his own penned single "Stay for the Night", were also released on his Virgin Records debut album, Come As You Please, which was released on 23 November 2003.The Flying Pickets official website.

The Flying Pickets are a British a cappella vocal group, who had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 in the UK Singles Chart with their cover version of Yazoo's track "Only You".

Another tactic is to organise highly mobile pickets, who can turn up at any of a company's locations on short notice. These flying pickets are particularly effective against multi- facility businesses that could otherwise pursue legal prior restraint and shift operations among facilities if the location of the picket were known with certainty ahead of time. The first recorded use of flying pickets was during the 1969 miners' strike in Britain. Picketing is also used by pressure groups across the political spectrum.

His theatre work include many years working for such establishments such as Regent's Park Open Air Theatre and The Royal Shakespeare Company. He was an early member of the singing group The Flying Pickets.

The video featured members of the band in various training scenarios as a parody of the training montage from the film. In December 2013, the band released a cover of the song "Only You", 30 years after the cover by The Flying Pickets had earned a Christmas Number 1. The recording failed to make the UK charts but proceeds were donated to the charity Prostate Cymru, with a dedication made to the Flying Pickets' lead vocalist, Brian Hibbard, who died of prostate cancer in 2012.

The band of six was founded by Brian Hibbard in 1982 from a group of actors who had been active with him in John McGrath's 7:84 theatre group, a fringe theatre organisation who had sung a cappella in their production of the 1981 play One Big Blow. The group chose the name The Flying Pickets as band members had played a part in the UK miners' strikes of 1972 and 1974."The Flying Pickets’ taste of fame", WalesOnline, 12 April 2009 (updated 29 March 2013). Accessed 12 July 2009.

The last member of the original line-up, David Brett, left the band in 1990."The Original Flying Pickets". Accessed 30 March 2007. However, in 1994, the original line-up (minus Lloyd) reformed to record one more album.

"When You're Young and in Love" is a song composed by Van McCoy which first became a Top 40 hit single for the Marvelettes in 1967: a remake by the Flying Pickets would reach the UK Top Ten in 1984.

The name "Flying Pickets" refers to mobile strikers who travel in order to join a picket, reflecting the group's radical socialist political views. The height of the group's fame coincided with the 1984 miners strike, when the National Union of Mineworkers called strike action following the National Coal Board's decision to close 20 pits — a move which would claim some 20,000 jobs. The Flying Pickets were vocal in their support of the miners during the dispute and came to blows with the record label Virgin after they picketed Drax Power Station in Yorkshire. They also performed benefit gigs for the miners.

The album, under the title Get to Know, was released on 27 September 2019. On 6 December 2019, Becky released a cover of the Yazoo song, "Only You", dedicated to her grandfather, who had introduced her to The Flying Pickets' cover version of the song when she was young.

Hereward Kaye released a solo album, Golden Mile, in 1980; he was later a member of the Flying Pickets, and the lyricist for the 1992 stage musical Moby Dick. In the mid-1980s, Nick South was in Time UK which also featured Danny Kustow from the then-defunct Tom Robinson Band.

Retrieved 13 December 2012 In 2009, he released his first single in six years, his own penned single "I'm Losing You", which charted high in the UK Singles Chart. The following year, an acoustic version of the "Chicago" hit "If You Leave Me Now" was accompanied by his second album Dreaming of Paradise, another popular album, released on 4 July 2010. The album was even more successful than his debut album, with this album reaching Number 12 in the UK Albums Chart and his debut album reaching 25 in the UK Albums Chart. On 2 July 2012, Howard fronted a Flying Pickets reunion in a concert dedicated to the Flying Pickets late lead singer Brian Hibbard, who had died following a prolonged battle with prostate cancer.

They then begin to picket other textile mills at Boswell's and Bent's. Union representative Billy Crane refuses to meet the strikers and recommends a return to work, but he does meet with John Black. They agree that the workers are being manipulated by a few political activists. Flying pickets then visit the north-east and the strike spreads there.

At the 1983 election Brittan was elected MP for Richmond. Following the election, he was promoted to Home Secretary, becoming the youngest since Sir Winston Churchill. During the UK miners' strike (1984–85), Brittan was a strong critic of the leadership of the National Union of Mineworkers. He accused them of organising violence by flying pickets, whom he described as "thugs".

Williams toured in a production of South Pacific and also with The English Shakespeare Company; he played Nathan Detroit in a production of Guys & Dolls. He also worked with Jonathan Miller on a TV adaptation of Henry Mayhew's London Labour, London Poor. In 2009, he understudied and went on for Patrick Stewart in the Theatre Royal Haymarket production of Waiting for Godot.The Original Flying Pickets.

Gary William Howard (born 16 June 1955)Gary Howard – Bio, News, Photos. The Washington Times. Retrieved 13 December 2012 is a British musician and actor. Formerly best known as a member of the a cappella group The Flying Pickets, in more recent years he is known for his roles in the film Gosford Park and the television sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps.

He was a Recorder in the Crown Court in Kent from 1975 to 1982, when he was appointed as a High Court judge and assigned to the Queen's Bench Division, receiving the customary knighthood. In 1984, during the miners' strike, he granted injunctions to the National Coal Board to prevent the National Union of Mineworkers using flying pickets. He was Presiding Judge of the Western Circuit from 1985 to 1988.

The Flying Pickets came up with a novel concept of transferring the art of a cappella to the pop music scene.Anderson, D. (1991), "Bums on Seats: Parties, Art, and Politics in London's East End", TDR vol. 35 (1) pp. 43-59. Joining Hibbard in the group were Rick Lloyd (who also wrote the music to One Big Blow), Gareth Williams, David Brett, Ken Gregson (real name Kenneth Gregory) and Red Stripe (real name David Gittins).

Figallo's involved in the vocal a cappella music scene, teaching voice, coaching choirs, conducting, arranging, adjudicating vocal contests and holding workshops on many subjects: singing bass, vocal percussion, vocal group singing and all things vocal. His main involvement is with the Wise Guys (band) and the Flying Pickets. He's also founder of The Ghost Files, a vocal studio project dedicated to original vocal music recordings. He is a freelance conductor working all over Europe.

This was originally performed by John McGrath's 7:84 Theatre Company. The score was entirely accapella and the production was the meeting place for The Flying Pickets. He is currently based in Wales where, as well as composing, recording and performing with his own bands – The Hornettes, The Boogilators and the Ric Lloyd Trio - he teaches courses in songs and songwriting. In addition his company Cleftec specializes in music engraving and music preparation.

Since 1995, Howard has performed annually at the Isle of Wight Festival along with his backing band The Jazzmasters. At the Festival, he regularly plays some hits by the Flying Pickets and other artists, and has also performed some of his own written songs. He is very well known on the Isle of Wight as he used to visit there as a child, and the Newport town hall is named the Gary Howard Hall.

The title song "Dives in Omnia" (cod-Latin for "Excess in everything") was sung by a cappella group The Flying Pickets. The series won an International Emmy and two BAFTA Awards (including Best Actor for David Jason). The television adaptation has been released on DVD and VHS. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Sacrist's Gate near Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, Knebworth House and Apethorpe Hall in Northamptonshire were used as locations in the series.

Unionised workers used flying pickets to seek support from workers on the lump. On 6 September 1972, UCATT and TGWU bussed members from North Wales and Chester to picket building sites in Shrewsbury. Despite confrontations with site management, the police made no arrests on the day. Five months after the strike, at a time when some of the strikers' aims had been largely settled, several building workers were investigated for alleged sabotage and vandalism during the dispute.

An a cappella version by The Flying Pickets was even more successful than the 1982 original on the UK Singles Chart, being released towards the end of the following year and becoming the Christmas number one in 1983. It spent five weeks at the top. This made "Only You" the first a cappella chart-topper in the UK. The song was also the 1983 Christmas number one in Ireland. It was released on overseas markets the following year.

Sixty-seven artists scored multiple entries in the top 10 in 1984. Cyndi Lauper, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Madonna, Prince and The Smiths were among the many artists who achieved their first UK charting top 10 single in 1984. The 1983 Christmas number-one, an a capella cover of Yazoo's "Only You" by The Flying Pickets, remained at number-one for the first week of 1984. The first new number-one single of the year was "Pipes of Peace" by Paul McCartney.

Hibbard and Stripe tried to stay in the music industry, forming their own act called Brian and Stripe, but their first and only single, a cover version of Yazoo's "Mr. Blue", failed to chart, and they returned to their separate acting careers. The group sang two songs on the Eric Woolfson/Alan Parsons 1990 album Freudiana. The Flying Pickets' line-up has changed throughout the years, but the band never died; since the Pickets began, there have been about 27 members.

During the UK miners' strike (1984-85), roughly 70% of the workforce struck for a year, but the NUM branch leadership remained conservative on the use of flying pickets and union funds to help strikers. There were arguments with the lodge at North Gawber Colliery on contributions to a kitchen, as it was claimed that Woolley (which was a much larger pit) was making a minimal contribution to feeding strikers. After the strike the men from North Gawber were transferred to Woolley.

Both were received with enthusiasm by RCA and Punter was hired to work on the two tracks. Released in November 1983, "My Oh My" became a UK No. 2 hit over the Christmas period, kept from the top spot by The Flying Pickets' cover of "Only You". The success of the single led to RCA rush-releasing The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome in December, rather than February 1984. The album reached No. 49 in the UK and was a success across Europe.

The Act was used extensively against IRA and Sinn Féin demonstrations in the 1970s, though the Act does not extend to Northern Ireland. In November 1974, 12 people were each fined the maximum £50 under the Act for wearing black berets at Speakers' Corner during a Sinn Féin anti- internment rally."12 who wore...", The Times, 21 November 1974, p 3 The Public Order Act 1936 was also used extensively against the flying pickets during the 1984/5 miners' strike.

PC Pete Muswell, a tall Londoner, was single, aged somewhere in his thirties. Like Sgt Cryer, Muswell was one of the officers who battled the flying pickets during the miners' strike, but unlike Cryer, he enjoyed his confrontations with the Yorkshiremen and frequently volunteered for overtime during that special duty. Whether the scar under his left eye resulted from these engagements was never revealed. Indeed, his heavy-handed, indiscriminate use of a truncheon caused the subsequent death of a young miner.

In December of the same year, the Cantamus Girls Choir entered the UK Singles Chart with their cover, but with the slightly different title "Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime". In 2006, French singer Laurent Voulzy also covered the song on his cover album La Septième Vague. A cappella group The Flying Pickets included their version of the song on their 2005 album Everyday. In the 2007 British film Sparkle, it is sung by the protagonist's mother (played by Lesley Manville) on a backing track.

His major innovation was organising "flying pickets" involving hundreds or thousands of committed strikers who could be bussed to critical strike points to shut down a target. He gained fame for using the tactic to win the Battle of Saltley Gate in 1972, and made it his main tactical device in the 1984 strike. By 1984 however the police were ready and neutralized the tactic with superior force. In 1973, Scargill was elected to the full-time post of compensation agent in the Yorkshire NUM.

Since leaving the Flying Pickets, Howard has gone on to become a celebrity in the acting world. His best known acting roles have occurred since 2000. In 2001, he played professional private eye Detective Inspector George Costigan in the British mystery comedy drama film Gosford Park. The all-star cast also featured Eileen Atkins, Alan Bates, Charles Dance, Stephen Fry, Michael Gambon, Richard E. Grant, Derek Jacobi, Kelly Macdonald, Helen Mirren, Jeremy Northam, Clive Owen, Ryan Phillippe, Maggie Smith, Kristin Scott Thomas and Emily Watson.

Few major trade unions supported the NUM, primarily because of the absence of a vote at national level. Violent confrontations between flying pickets and police characterised the year-long strike, which ended in a decisive victory for the Conservative government and allowed the closure of most of Britain's collieries. Many observers regard the strike as "the most bitter industrial dispute in British history". The number of person-days of work lost to the strike was over 26 million, making it the largest since the 1926 general strike.

In the early weeks of the strike, the media reported that miners' wives in Nottinghamshire were encouraging their husbands to defy the flying pickets and were against the strike. In response, a group of miners' wives and girlfriends who supported the strike set up a network that became known as Women Against Pit Closures. The support groups organised collections outside supermarkets, communal kitchens, benefit concerts and other activities. The strike marked an important development in the traditional mining heartlands, where feminist ideas had not been strong.

An orchestral remix of "Only You" was created for the Boots 2017 Christmas advert on British TV. Yazoo released the track on their YouTube channel on 17 November 2017, promising that it would be released as a single-track download the following week. The remix features Alison Moyet's original vocal with a brand new orchestral backing track. The Flying Pickets recorded an a cappella cover of "Only You" in 1983 which became Christmas number one in the UK. It reached number 17 in Canada, April 1984.

Royal Avenue was filmed from a horse-drawn tramcar on 27 May 1901. The film is extant and shows the street bustling with shoppers, workers, trams, carts, bicycles, and wagons. During the 1907 Belfast Dock strike, Royal Avenue was used as one of the principal thoroughfares for the passage of traction engines driven by blackleg carters to deliver goods from the docks into the city centre. The blacklegs had to be escorted by the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) to prevent them from being attacked by flying pickets.

In his late 20s, Tomlinson was attracted to right-wing politics and, by his own account, was a member of the National Front for a period after Enoch Powell's April 1968 "Rivers of Blood" speech. In the early 1970s however, Tomlinson's political views shifted staunchly to the left after reading the book The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists. In 1972 he joined the flying pickets in a building workers' dispute in Shrewsbury. Following allegations of violence during this protest, in 1973 Tomlinson was charged with "conspiracy to intimidate" as one of the Shrewsbury Two.

Steve McNicholas (born 11 August 1955) is an English director, composer, actor and co-founder of dance percussion act Stomp. McNicholas has worked with Cliff Hanger Theatre Co., 7:84, Covent Garden Community Theatre, Pookiesnackenburger Buskers and the Flying Pickets. His work in television includes Rowan Atkinson's Mr. Bean, various soundtrack work with Luke Cresswell and the Yes/No video percussion series for ITV as director. He composed the score of the 1997 film Riot, and shares directorial credits with Cresswell on STOMP- based short films and commercials.

Martin Wainwright, "Flying pickets left in the cold outside the gates of Hull", The Guardian, 1 August 1989 He expected to lose his job as a result but, after the national strike was called off, his fellow shop stewards secured his continued employment, by threatening a walk-out if he was not kept on. Greendale was re-elected to the union's national executive in 1990,Keith Harper, "Left gains in rerun TGWU postal ballot", The Guardian, 27 March 1990 but by this time was focusing on local politics. He was elected to Hull City Council, representing the Labour Party.

This album was released in two versions: The "White Album" and the "Black Album". Additionally, while the "White Album" was originally released under the moniker "Freudiana" and not Eric Woolfson, Alan Parsons, nor the Alan Parsons Project, the first releases had "The Alan Parsons Project" at the top. The "White Album" was released in 1990 through EMI Records. It includes 18 tracks with lead vocal performances from Leo Sayer, Kiki Dee, Marti Webb, 10cc's Eric Stewart, Frankie Howerd, Gary Howard and The Flying Pickets, as well as previous Project vocalists Chris Rainbow, John Miles, Graham Dye, and Woolfson.

Celluloid's prolific output continued throughout the mid-eighties. As well as funding Laswell-related productions by Praxis, Time Zone, Shango, B-Side, Deadline, Last Poets, and even a resurrected Jimi Hendrix (appearing posthumously with Lightnin' Rod on the bluesy "Doriella Du Fontaine"), Karakos also started a number of associated labels. OAO Records released much of Material's early output as well as albums by the aforementioned Golden Palominos and Cuban percussionist Daniel Ponce. Moving Target catered for the niche post-rock/reggae market, releasing material by Sly and Robbie, Yellowman, Dennis Bovell, Blurt, The Fleshtones, Splatcats and, incredibly, The Flying Pickets.

There will be no return to secondary action, flying pickets, strikes without ballots, the closed shop and all the rest. The changes that we do propose would leave British law the most restrictive on trade unions in the Western world. The scenes from Wapping, Grunwick or the miners' strike could no more happen under our proposals than under the existing laws.' This is still seen as accurate.See A Manifesto for Labour Law: towards a comprehensive revision of workers' rights (Institute of Employment Rights, 2016) 1 and 70, reviewed in (2017) 46(1) Industrial Law Journal 169.

By 30 January, 40,000 workers from the Clydes engineering and shipbuilding industries had joined. Sympathy strikes also started among local power station workers and miners from the nearby Lanarkshire and Stirlingshire pits. The rapid growth of the action was credited to flying pickets, most of whom were recently discharged servicemen. This was Scotland's most widespread strike since the Radical War of 1820, which had followed the end of the Napoleonic Wars. On 29 January a delegation of strikers met the Lord Provost of Glasgow, and it was agreed that he would send a telegram to the Deputy Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law, asking the government to intervene.

The miners were all persuaded to return to work, but another stoppage a week later occurred when ten miners were threatened with dismissal after video footage had been studied from the previous strike with those miners accused of being flying pickets. In 1993, the mine was selected for closure by British Coal, even though a confidential report stated that the colliery was in the black and was producing coal at a far cheaper rate than imports from South Africa. The mine closed in December 1993 with huge reserves left underground and the loss of 450 jobs. All surface buildings, including the headstocks, were demolished by 1995.

Hibbard was born into a working class family in Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, and had a socialist upbringing. He was educated at Ebbw Vale Grammar School. After various jobs including teacher, steel worker, barman and chimney sweep, he formed The Flying Pickets with a group of other actors who had practised a cappella singing while travelling by coach to their appearances. Following the group's success in the early 1980s, Hibbard went on to pursue a career as a television actor, appearing in Coronation Street as garage mechanic Doug Murray, in Emmerdale as Bobby-John Downes, and as Johnny Mac in the Welsh language soap Pobol y Cwm as well as the youth drama Pam Fi, Duw?.

In the summer of 1893, Corleone became the strategic center of the peasant movement and the epicenter of the strike wave, thanks to Verro's charisma and to his hard-nosed choices, including a strategic alliance with a Mafia clan in Corleone and alliances with prominent Mafiosi in outlying towns, most notably Vito Cascioferro and Nunzio Giaimo in Bisacquino. The Mafiosi were sometimes needed to enforce flying pickets with credible threats of violence and to make the strike costly to landowners by destroying their property.Alcorn, Revolutionary Mafiosi. In order to give the strike teeth and to protect himself from harm, Verro became a member of a Mafia group in Corleone, the Fratuzzi (the Brothers).

He also referred to The Flying Pickets, an a cappella vocal group active in the 1980s, although "a bit asexual" sounding, while the band aimed for a rougher sound. Hyde valued the "unique position" that being able to produce such an album put them in. Commenting on the departure from the band's previous style, he said: Recording sessions took place at First Avenue in Heaton, Newcastle with recording engineer Dave Curle throughout 2011, with each song on the album taking over 100 takes. The band told it was "a nightmare" to make all of them be in tune and work together and they would leave the studio “in a state of ultimate exhaustion,” after recording each day.

Now works with Garkalne mixed choir "Pa Saulei" (2010) which is led by his wife Marta Ozola along with colleague Margarita Dudcaka. Currently Jānis Ozols is the artistic director and conductor of youth choir "Maska". Established in 2000, youth choir "Maska" is currently one of the best amateur choirs in Latvia. As a singer of vocal group "Cosmos" (2002) Jānis Ozols has collaborated with such world renowned artists as Bobby McFerrin, The Real Group, Take 6, The Manhattan Transfer, The Hilliard Ensemble, The New York Voices, The Flying Pickets, M-pact and Icelandic music icon Björk. "Cosmos" won the contest of young singers "New Wave" in 2004 and received the Latvian Great Music Award in 2009.

The band performed up until Christmas 1967 before splitting up at the end of the year, the various members going their own ways. Singer Maldwyn Pate going to New York to be a choreographer, guitarist Rick Lloyd eventually became a member of the a cappella group The Flying Pickets who had a Christmas number one hit in 1983 in the UK Singles Chart with their cover of Yazoo's track 'Only You'. Following the end of the Y Blew, it took almost five years for the next Welsh language rock groups to be formed - with Brân and Edward H Dafis in 1972-3. > ’'I think it took time for the penny to drop.

In February 2016, the High Court issued an interim injunction, ordering the council to halt felling from February to April 2016. In June 2016, once the three-month injunction came to an end, felling recommenced on trees on Bannerdale Road and South Yorkshire Police (SYP) were involved for the first time. In November 2016, during a peaceful campaign to protect a tree on Marden Road, involving five residents and members of STAG, two people were arrested under Section 241 of the Trade Union and Labour Relations Act (1992), designed to deal with ‘Flying Pickets.’ The validity of these charges against people exercising their right to peaceful protest was hotly disputed by STAG.

During a parliamentary debate on the strike in its second week, both Labour and Conservative MPs praised the miners for the forbearance shown during the mass pit closures in the 1960s. The National Association of Colliery Overmen, Deputies and Shotfirers did not strike. Following some confrontations with NUM pickets, the National Coal Board adopted a policy of giving leave on full pay to any members of NACODS who faced aggressive intimidation on the way to work. The strike was characterised by the miners sending flying pickets to other industrial sites to persuade other workers to strike in solidarity, which led to railway workers' refusing to transport coal and power station workers' refusing to handle coal.

As a result, and with a slump in the demand for steam coal, production at Mardy did not resume until late 1927. There is a red Soviet banner from female workers in Moscow in 1926, made for British miners and their wives, which originally was kept in Maerdy ('Little Moscow'). During the 1984/85 miners' strike, the pit remained true to its militant heritage and sent men as flying pickets all over the country; only two token picket lines were ever needed at Mardy itself, as no Mardy miner would ever cross a picket line. The wives formed the first women's support groups in the South Wales Coalfield, organising food collection and distribution, and joining their husbands on the picket lines.

In 1975 Mike Oldfield had a top 10 hit with "In Dulci Jubilo" but this Latin song was performed as an instrumental. "Oh What a Circus" from the 1976 musical Evita, and a hit single performed by David Essex, includes a choral chant in Latin, based on the Catholic anthem "Salve Regina". "Gaudete" is also one of only a handful of a cappella performances to become hit singles. (Other notable examples are "Only You", sung by the Flying Pickets, "After the Gold Rush", sung by Prelude, "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Bobby McFerrin and "Caravan of Love", sung by the Housemartins.) When "Gaudete" was performed on Top of the Pops, the resident dance troupe walked onto the set in medieval-style robes, holding candles, followed by the members of Steeleye Span.

Some 1970s records appear anachronistically, such as the Hollies' 1974 song "The Air That I Breathe", Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog" (1971) or Pink Floyd's 1971 instrumental "One of These Days." The series 17 finale "You Never Can Tell" is accompanied by the Flying Pickets' 1983 song "Only You", an episode which featured a guest appearance by the band's lead singer Brian Hibbard. Although its storylines regularly involved serious crime and human tragedy, later series of Heartbeat dealt with these themes in a relatively cosy and comfortable manner compared to more modern TV police dramas, and much of the grittiness and social realism of the early series disappeared, though "Another Little Piece of My Heart" (series 16) was preceded by a viewer discretion warning for "containing scenes of domestic violence".

With 80 per cent of the nation's goods transported by road, roads still not completely cleared from the earlier storm, essential supplies were put in danger as striking drivers picketed those firms that continued to work. While the oil tanker drivers were working, the main refineries were also targeted and the tanker drivers let the strikers know where they were going, allowing for flying pickets to turn them back at their destination. More than a million UK workers were laid off temporarily during the disputes. In Kingston upon Hull, striking hauliers were able to blockade the city's two main roads effectively enough to control what goods were allowed into and out of the city, and companies made their case to their own nominal employees to get past the barricades.

They recorded 12 tracks at the ABC studios in December, which "received national airplay": they followed with an Australian tour including an impromptu appearance at the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Mike Jackson of The Canberra Times caught their gig at a local venue, Tilley Devine's Cafe Gallery, in April 1990, and observed that their music, "is full of lovely harmonies and a selection of songs that places them somewhere between The Flying Pickets and Sydney women's a'capella group Blindman's Holiday. More folk than the former and more up tempo than the latter." Shanahan (second from right) and Arramaeida on stage in Hobart, Australia, April 1995 Arramaieda released their studio album, More Ways than One, in 1992 via Natural Symphonies, which was recorded by a four-piece: Shanahan, Hore, Teresa Castley and Kirsten MacKenzie at Studios 301, Sydney in June of that year.

This film centres on a party held for the redundant shop stewards and their families and combines the music of the Flying Pickets and the humour of comedian Mike Elliott to illustrate the ironies of the closure. The title highlights Mrs Thatcher's support for the striking shipyard workers in Gdańsk while shutting down UK yards; Birmingham Is What I Think With (1991), Arts Council England--about the poet Roy Fisher; The Shadow and the Substance (1994), Channel 4. The Shadow and the Substance (the title is a quote from John Clare’s poem on enclosure) examined the nature of work in an increasingly high-tech environment. In the film Rosemary Cramp, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Durham, discusses the basic human need and dignity in "labour" in prehistoric times as do redundant shipyard workers from Sunderland and Tyneside.

Howard is also known in the television world for his portrayal of Paddy Mahone, the original pub landlord of The Archer, in series one to five of the popular BBC television sitcom Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. Howard left the series at the end of series five to focus once again on his music career, and his character was never mentioned or seen again in the show. Prior to his breakthrough as an actor, Howard's screen performing days began in the 1990s, and although his acting skill never really came to light until after his departure from The Flying Pickets, he did featured in a few popular films including Blame It on the Bellboy (1992), The Age of Innocence (1993) and Loop (1997). He also had a role in the Channel 4 soap opera Brookside between 1994 and 1995, playing Alf Connolly.

The song has been covered many times including by Khalid, Justin Bieber, The Flying Pickets, Hundred Reasons, Xiu Xiu, Vertical Horizon, Darwin's Waiting Room, Amazing Transparent Man, MYMP, Mutya Buena, Kristian Leontiou, Wayne Wonder, David Usher, Linda Pritchard, Boyce Avenue (featuring Kina Grannis), Christian Kane, Jim O’Rourke, Mark Wilkinson, Elizabeth Gillies, Hitomi Yaida, Ryan Montbleau (featuring Tall Heights), Passenger, and Jess Moskaluke (with W.G. Snuffy Walden). In 2010, Kelly Clarkson and Daughtry performed a duet of the song in concert. It was also sampled by the rap group Nice & Smooth in their hit song "Sometimes I Rhyme Slow", making it a hit within the hip-hop community as well. British rapper Example also samples the song in his "I Need a Fast Car", which appeared on his mixtape We Didn't Invent the Remix. In 1991, British soul singer Gabrielle recorded a demo of her song "Dreams" that featured a sample of "Fast Car".

When National Coal Board boss Ian MacGregor announced plans to close 20 pits and do away with 25,000 jobs in 1984, the planned closure of Cortonwood provoked a movement of Yorkshire miners who appealed to other coalfields for support. In light of the lack of support from Yorkshire with regards closures in South Wales, the South Wales branch as a region voted 3:1 against a strike. O'Sullivan explained to his members at Tower the probable result of not fighting the closures, and gained 99% support: O’Sullivan led flying pickets, a highly mobile type of picketing, from Tower over the following week to every pit in the South Wales region, as a result of which the pits had met and agreed to support the 1984/5 national miners strike. O'Sullivan later led the group of miners leaders against a national ballot during the strike, as it would have needed to include the Nottinghamshire branch, who would have voted against it - its leadership later formed the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers.

Unterberger highlights Emmylou Harris among the notable artists who have recorded "Here, There and Everywhere". Harris' version became a minor hit in 1976, reaching number 65 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 13 on the Adult Contemporary chart in the United States. Other noted performers of the song include Beegie Adair, Clay Aiken, David Benoit, George Benson, Gina Jeffreys on Old Paint, Peter Breinholt, Petula Clark, Perry Como, Count Basie Orchestra, Darren Day, John Denver, Romina Power, Céline Dion (for a George Martin/Beatles tribute album), Arik Einstein, Episode Six, Matt Monro, Jose Feliciano (instrumental), The Fourmost, Jerry Garcia and Merl Saunders (instrumental), Bobbie Gentry, Stéphane Grappelli, Ofra Harnoy, The Flying Pickets, Jay and the Americans, The Lettermen, Locksley, Kenny Loggins (on Kenny Loggins Alive), Claudine Longet, John McDermott, Carmen McRae, Olivia Ong, Maaya Sakamoto, George Shearing, The Singers Unlimited, Sissel, Göran Söllscher, Marina Verenikina, Jose Mari Chan, Camilo Sesto, John Williams (instrumental),Classic Guitar Greatest Hits CD Andy Williams, David Gilmour, Umberto Tozzi and Boulou Ferré (on Pour Django, instrumental). Bruce Welch of The Shadows claimed in his autobiography that McCartney offered the tune to Shadows lead guitarist Hank Marvin before the Beatles' recording.

She planned to close inefficient pits and depend more on imported coal, oil, gas and nuclear. She appointed hardliners to key positions, set up a high level planning committee,Jim Phillips, "Containing, Isolating, and Defeating the Miners: The UK Cabinet Ministerial Group on Coal and the Three Phases of the 1984–85 Strike." Historical Studies in Industrial Relations 35 (2014): 117–141. and allocated funds from the highly profitable electrical supply system to stockpile at least six months’ worth of coal."Sir Peter Gregson, civil servant – obituary: Whitehall mandarin who helped lay the groundwork for Mrs Thatcher's defeat of Arthur Scargill," The Telegraph 21 Dec 2015 Thatcher's team set up mobile police units so that forces from outside the strike areas could neutralise efforts by flying pickets to stop the transport of coal to power stations. It used the National Recording Centre (NRC), set up in 1972 by the Association of Chief Police Officers for England and Wales linking 43 police forces to enable police forces to travel to assist in major disturbances.Martin Kettle, "The National Reporting Centre and the 1984 miners' strike," in Bob Fine and Robert Millar, eds., Policing the miners' strike (1985), pp. 23–33.