Frans Hals (song) explained

Frans Hals
Type:single
Artist:McCarthy
Released:March 1987
Genre:Indie pop
Label:Pink Label
Prev Title:Red Sleeping Beauty
Prev Year:1986
Next Title:The Well of Loneliness
Next Year:1987

"Frans Hals" is a single by McCarthy released in March 1987; their last on Pink Label. The b-sides were "The Fall (remix)" and "Kill Kill Kill Kill" and "Frans Hals (version)".

The single is not on any of the group's three studio albums. It can be found on the releases A La Guillotine and That's All Very Well But....

Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals was the subject of the song and the lyrics were inspired by John Berger's comments on Hals in his 1972 book, Ways of Seeing.