After The Lightning Seeds dissolved in 2000, Broudie produced albums by artists such as The Coral and The Zutons before releasing his own solo album Tales Told in 2004.
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On 11 October 2004, Broudie released his debut solo effort, Tales Told, which was embraced by critics and fans alike — despite that fact that Tales Told saw Broudie move into folk rock territory and away from the chirpy pop tunes of The Lightning Seeds.
The Tales of Hoffmann | Tales of the Unexpected | Unfinished Tales | The Canterbury Tales | Tales from the Crypt (TV series) | Tales from the Crypt | Weird Tales | Tales of the Unexpected (TV series) | Tales from the Cryptkeeper | Tales of the Riverbank | Strange Tales | Tales of the City | Tales of Suspense | Leatherstocking Tales | Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales | The Happy Prince and Other Tales | Tales of Monkey Island | Tales from the Darkside | Tales from Earthsea | Ox-Tales | Modern Tales | Tube Tales | Tales of Tomorrow | Tales of the Unexpected (comics) | Tales of the Texas Rangers | Tales of the Tempest | Tales of the Shadowmen | Tales from the Vienna Woods | Tales from Earthsea (film) | Jungle Tales of Tarzan |
Among his independent publications are Who killed Cock Robin? (1897), Tales told in the Zoo (1900), two volumes of Froissart's Modern Chronicles, told and pictured by FC Gould (1902 and 1903), and Picture Politics—a periodical reprint of his Westminster Gazette cartoons, one of the most noteworthy implements of political warfare in the armoury of the Liberal Party.
Father Francis Xavier Pierz, a pioneer missionary priest, is the subject of many tales told among the Catholics of Stearns County, Minnesota.
The stories are based on fairy tales told by the Brothers Grimm, which are often more gruesome and horrible than the watered-down versions told to children.
One of the anecdotal and possibly apocryphal tales told in support of Mountbatten Pink was the story of the cruiser HMS Kenya (nicknamed "The Pink Lady" at the time due to her Mountbatten Pink paint), which during Operation Archery covered a commando raid against installations on Vågsøy Island off the Norwegian coast.