1989’s Change was an homage to the group’s native Wales, and was accompanied by an alternate Welsh-language version Newid . Produced by Tony Visconti , Change spawned the group’s biggest Modern Rock hit in America, “Sold Me Down the River”, which also put them in the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Top 50 for the first and only time. “Devolution Working Man Blues” and “Love Don’t Come Easy” also earned radio airplay, and the track “A New South Wales” had an appearance by the Welsh Symphony Orchestra and the Morriston Orpheus Male Voice Choir . Although it was popular in Wales, it did not sell as well as the group’s earlier works, and internal band dissension, exacerbated by deaths in both Peters’ and Twist’s families, made 1991’s Raw the original Alarm’s final effort.
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