''Behind the Barricades'' is the sixth

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album released by

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James Young. The album cover features a picture taken by Stanley Matchett. On the cover a

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with his back to the camera stands in a street off the Falls Road, Belfast in front of a

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. Behind the barricade Young, in drag, leans across to the soldier. The back cover features a photograph taken from the

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. Young continues the trend of comic songs and serious monologues set by his previous album rather than the live sketches of his first four albums.

Track listing

Side 1

# Behind The Barricades: 1:32 # The Latest News - 2:17 # I'm A Belfast Beauty - 2:35 # Ireland In The Sun - 3:09 # The Ugliest Woman In Ireland - 3:36 # Why Some People Go To Church - 1:53

Side 2

# Holidays in Bangor - 3:06 # The Glentoran Supporter - 3:11 # A Belfast Chambermaid - 2:05 # The Gas Meter Man - 1:31 # We Emigrated - 4:03 # I Eat All I Can - 3:11

Singles

*Behind the Barricades / Ulster's Space Man

Re-release

Emerald Music re-released the album in 1999 in a four-disc boxset to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of Young's death. The album was boxed with three of Young's other comedy albums (''

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'', '' Very Much Live In Canada'' and ''

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''). The album was marketed as ''James Young: Ireland's Greatest Comic Legend Volume 1''.

References

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