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4 unusual facts about Road to Rouen


Road to Rouen

Road to Rouen was a difficult album for the band due to personal reasons, including Danny Goffey's tabloid ordeal and the death of Gaz and Rob Coombes' mother.

The front cover photo depicts a cattle bridge near Lefaux, France that crosses the A16 autoroute, part of the route between Boulogne and Rouen.

Overall album design was by graphic company Traffic and Mick Quinn.

In a 2008 interview, bassist Mick Quinn said the introspection and orchestration of the album was "almost entirely" a direct reaction to the death of the Coombes brothers' mother, as well as Danny Goffey's tabloid ordeal.



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