Grateful When You're Dead
"Grateful When You're Dead" is a song by English rock band Kula Shaker, taken from their first album K.
The song's title is a reference to the American rock band Grateful Dead. The song consists of two parts: the GWYD part, which is a standard rock song, and the JWT part, which is a more drifting part with dark and ethnic sounds.
The single was released in April 1996. It was released both as a 7" and a CD, and reached number 35 on the UK singles chart.
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Famous quotes containing the words grateful and/or dead:
“What a long strange trip it’s been.”
—Robert Hunter, U.S. rock lyricist. “Truckin’,” on the Grateful Dead album American Beauty (1971)
“And he is dead who will not fight;
And who dies fighting has increase.”
—Julian Grenfell (1888–1915)