Landmarks, which was issued in early 1997, earned the group their first ever Grammy award, though it also signaled the beginning of a long hiatus from the stage and the studio. The band continued to release albums into the '90s, building their pop following without losing their folk audience. Clannad's success continued in 1986, when U2's Bono was featured on the Top 20 hit 'In a Lifetime.' The band recorded the soundtrack to the television production Robin of Sherwood in 1984 it won a British Academy Award for best soundtrack the next year. Clannad recorded the theme song for the television program Harry's Game the single hit number five on the charts and won the band an Ivor Novello Award. Máire's sister Eithne (later Enya) joined the group in 1980, but left in 1982, just as the group was beginning to come into some pop success in the U.K. They released their self-titled first album in 1973, yet the band didn't earn any widespread success until they toured Germany in 1975. Soon afterward, the group began playing folk festivals in Ireland. Taking their name from the Gaelic word for 'family,' Clannad formed in 1970 when the Brennan family - Máire (vocals, harp), Ciarán (vocals, guitar, bass, keyboards), Pól (guitar, percussion, flute, vocals) - began playing at their father Leo's tavern with two of their uncles, Pádraig Duggan (guitar, vocals, mandolin) and Noel Duggan (guitar, vocals). Such fusions earned the band an international cult of fans. The results were usually an entrancing, enchanting form of pop that managed to fuse the disparate elements together rather seamlessly. Clannad bridged the gap between traditional Celtic music and pop.

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