Marc Almond's new album 'Stardom Road' will be released on June 4th 2007 on Sanctuary Records. The album is a musical journey of cover songs that have influenced Marc through his life and his significant growth as an artist.
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The album also contains one new song, 'Redeem Me (Beauty Will Redeem The World)', which Marc wrote specifically for Stardom Road. The album has been compiled with the help of Tris Penna, who produced many of the tracks with the acclaimed producer Marius de Vries and arranger Mike Smith. It features guest spots from Antony Hegarty of Antony and the Johnsons; Jools Holland, with whom Marc has often toured; and Sarah Cracknell from St Etienne.
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Track listing:
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01. I Have Lived
02. I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten (featuring Sarah Cracknell)
03. Bedsitter Images
04. The London Boys
05. Strangers In The Night
06. The Ballad Of The Sad Young Men (featuring Antony Hegarty)
07. Stardom Road
08. Kitsch
09. Backstage (I’m Lonely)
10. Dream Lover
11. Happy Heart
12. Redeem Me (Beauty Will Redeem The World)
13. The Curtain Falls
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The first single from the album will be the Dusty Springfield cover 'I Close My Eyes and Count To Ten' (Featuring Sarah Cracknell) available as an iTunes download track from 28th May.
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Marc says of the track: "As a kid, I watched the great ballad singers of the sixties on an old Bakelite-encased black and white television, and they somehow saturated my adolescence in colour; female singers with too much eye makeup, and torch-singing crooners, inevitably recounting lost loves and missed chances. Sometimes it all seems like a dream. This song features the singer Sarah Cracknell, whose voice conjures up perfectly the images of Britain in the sixties"
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For further information and to see the cover of Stardom Road go to:
www.marcalmond.co.uk/boxoffice/news.htm Ordering details will follow shortly.
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Theatre of Marc Almond: http://www.marcalmond.co.uk |
