In 1988, Magnum enjoyed their first Top 40 hit, Days Of No Trust. The opening track from the band's Wings Of Heaven album, it combined melodic grandeur – a hallmark of songwriter and band founder Tony Clarkin, whose death was announced yesterday – with hard-hitting lyrics about the state of the world.
"It's not meant to be a depressing song, nor a whole negative one," Clarkin wrote in the Wings Of Heaven tour programme. "But what I’m trying to say is that, for Christ's sake, we’re all fooling ourselves and we just carry on 'Living the same old lies'. We see on TV what goes on in the world and we never do anything about it, me included. I write a song about it… big deal!"
