Blast Furnace and the Heatwaves were a London-based blues and rhythm & blues band, that flourished in the 1970s and 1980s. Lead singer and harmonica player, Blast Furnace, was the alter-ego of then New Musical Express journalist and rock and blues historian, Charles Shaar Murray.
Famous quotes containing the words blast and/or furnace:
“Another hand thy sword shall wield,
Another hand the standard wave,
Till from the trumpet’s mouth is pealed
The blast of triumph o’er thy grave.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)
“‘Alas!’ quoth he, ‘but newly born in fiery heats I fry,
Yet none approach to warm their hearts or feel my fire but I.
My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;
Love is the fire, and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;
The fuel justice layeth on, and mercy blows the coals;
The metal in this furnace wrought are men’s defiled souls;”
—Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)