| "Bright Eyes" | ||||
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| Single by Art Garfunkel | ||||
| from the album Fate for Breakfast | ||||
| B-side | "Kehaar's Theme" | |||
| Released | 19 January 1979[1] | |||
| Length | 4:00 | |||
| Label | Columbia | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Mike Batt | |||
| Producer(s) | Mike Batt | |||
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"Bright Eyes" is a song written by British songwriter Mike Batt and performed by Art Garfunkel. It was written for the soundtrack of the 1978 British animated adventure drama film Watership Down. Rearranged as a pop song from its original form in the film, the track appears on British and European versions of Garfunkel's 1979 Fate for Breakfast and on the US versions of his 1981 album Scissors Cut. "Bright Eyes" topped the UK Singles Chart for six weeks and became Britain's biggest-selling single of 1979, selling over a million copies. Richard Adams, author of the original novel, is reported to have hated the song.[2] A cover of the song was later used explicitly in the Watership Down television series as its theme song.
- ^ "Art Garfunkel – Bright Eyes". 45cat.com. Archived from the original on 23 February 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
- ^ "I HATE "Bright Eyes"!". lettersofnote.com. Archived from the original on 6 July 2020. Retrieved 14 January 2019.