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Revision as of 22:06, 5 September 2009

Nuclear Waste
cover of the 1979 single
Recorded by Sting
Released: 1st edition 1978
Recorded: 1978
Length: 2:32
Album(s): ---
Label(s): various
Writer(s): Harry Williamson
Producer(s): Simon Heyworth
Studio(s): STUDIO(S)
Released as single? YES

"Nuclear Waste" is a song written by Harry Williamson and recorded by (Fast Breeder And) The Radio Actors (including Sting) in 1978.

About the song

This song was recorded in spring 1978 in a North London studio. On the first edition of this single (a limited pressing of 500 singles on Virgin Records - NO NUKE 235) the band is called "Fast Breeder And The Radio Actors". This single was released with a lyric sheet and was quickly sold out at antinuclear protests in London in April 1978. Sting is only singing on the track Nuclear Waste, not on the B-side.

The single was later re-issued on Charly Records and DB Records and in some other countries...

Personnel

  • Sting - lead vocals
  • Steve Broughton - drums
  • Steve Hillage - lead guitar
  • Nik Turner - sax & backing vocals
  • Mike Howlett - bass
  • Harry Williamson - rhythm guitar & backing vocals
  • Gilli Smyth - backing vocals

Release History

Singles

CD Singles

Cover art Catalog no. Songs Release date Release country
Nuclear Waste CD.jpg VP181DC "Nuclear Waste" / "Digital Love" / "Spiral Diatribe" / "Nuclear Waste" / "Nuclear MegaWaste" 1995 Austria

7" Singles

Cover art Catalog no. A-side song/B-side song Release date Release country
Stub.gif NO NUKE 235 "Nuclear Waste"/"Digital Love" 1978 UK
Nuclear Waste Charly single.jpg CYS 1058 "Nuclear Waste"/"Digital Love" 1979 UK
Nuclear Waste German single.jpg CYS 1058 "Nuclear Waste"/"Digital Love" 1981 (probably) Germany

Lyrics

Nuclear Waste - we don't want that
Nuclear Waste - we don't need that
Nuclear Waste - we've got to leave this Nuclear age behind
in our time

A faste breeder breaks all the rules 
gives us something for nothing - that ain't true 
and who makes the profit? - not me and you
And who takes the risks? - we all do!

Nuclear Waste - we don't want that
Nuclear Waste - but we can't get rid of that
Nuclear Waste - you're hoping we'll get used to it
Nuclear Waste - I've had enough of it.

Do you find it attractive to be radioactive emitting killing rays?
Splitting your atoms with a fission reaction transmitting out of phase?

Strontium 90 - Strontium 90
I wanna live to see 1999

There's enough energy in the air and in the sea
To give us power to live in peace and harmony


Nuclear Waste - we don't get used to your
Nuclear Waste - ultimate pollution
Nuclear Waste - produces mutation
Nuclear Waste - it's not evolution
Nuclear Waste - you know the solution
New Killer Waste - better active today
New Killer Waste - than radioactive tomorrow
New Killer Waste- need a cure for cancer?
New Killer Waste- need the real answer
New Killer Waste- fusion not fission
New Killer Waste- let me put my arms around your
Nuclear Waste - damaging my lettuces
Nuclear Waste - jamming my transmission
Nuclear Waste - damaging my vision
Nuclear Waste

Quotations and trivia

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Alternative and cover versions

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See also

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External links

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References

sources: CD single liner notes, personal information