a b c d Oricon Album Chart Book: Complete Edition 1970–2005 (in Japanese). Roppongi, Tokyo: Oricon Entertainment. 2006. ISBN 4-87131-077-9. I must have played this album a LOT since I know every song and have both a US and UK pressing of it. It’s taken me 40, no, 35 years to realise that I don’t have an identifiable sound like a band like, say, Bon Jovi or The Stranglers have. But I know what makes a Paul Young album, and what they’ve always had is a variety of material.” Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1sted.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p.263. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5. With the second album, ‘The Secret Of Association’ his status as a world star was confirmed. ‘Every Time You Go Away’ hit number one in America in the summer of 1985, (shortly after his appearance at the historic Live Aid) and in any other unconquered countries too. It was and still is his biggest worldwide hit.

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Top Selling Albums of 1984 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved 2 February 2022. French album certifications – Paul Young – No Parlez" (in French). Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved 13 December 2021. Paul Young's wife Stacey dies from cancer aged 52". BBC News. BBC. 27 January 2018 . Retrieved 27 January 2018. Young returned to the UK Top Ten with a version of Ann Peebles' " I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down". [7] The latter appeared on his second album, The Secret of Association, released in 1985, which secured his future success in the United States, Japan and Australia. The album went to No. 1 in the UK. That year, Young scored the biggest worldwide hit of his career with "Every Time You Go Away", a cover of a song from the 1980 Hall & Oates album Voices. "Every Time You Go Away" was his biggest success in the U.S. [20] Young's smooth yet soulful voice belongs to a genre known as " blue-eyed soul". At the 1985 Brit Awards, Young received the award for Best British Male. [21] Associated with the Second British Invasion of the US, [22] "Every Time You Go Away" reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1985. It also won Best British Video at the 1986 Brit Awards. [23]That was due to pressure, although I didn’t realise it,” Paul confesses. “Then we gave the finished mixes of the album to my manager, and he said: ‘This album’s a bit grown up, there’s no pop songs on it’, and I went: ‘Really?’ I’d never seen it that way. I thought it was more introspective and also, I was taking on the responsibility of being a pop star. On his last album for Sony, Paul worked with Don Was on The Crossing. Shorn of much of what had made the Paul Young sound, especially on this first long-player without Pino Palladino involved, Paul recalls: “I was living my dream on that album. It didn’t start that way, but Don had a Filofax full of both famous names and top session players and he kept saying: ‘Why don’t we do this song with such-and-such and that song with somebody else?’” was spent touring the world, which culminated in Paul’s wonderful appearance at the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert singing “Radio Gaga” and the release of what turned out to be his final album for Sony, ‘The Crossing’ in 1993. This gave Paul the chance to work alongside some of his musical heroes; Tony Joe White, The Memphis Horns, and Billy Preston among many others. Working with the producer Don Was on the material for ‘The Crossing’, Paul was exploring new styles of music and the gulf between the musical past and future had begun to seem impossible to bridge. The single ‘Otis Blue’ from this album would be the last hit single with CBS, now Sony. Once freed from his contract Paul took time out to take a breath and to reflect; “Every artist wants to change, yet every record company wants them to stay the same”. Paul Young was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. He has an older brother, Mark, and a younger sister, Joanne. [4] As a youth, after school, (Primary School was Ramridge) The group’s early performances were in bars and clubs, performing a mixture of their own material and covers. [36] The album Los Pacaminos was released in 2002. [36] [37]

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As No Parlez took off, Paul soon found himself as one of the major breakthrough solo artists of the decade, and became the ‘new boy’ when he took part in Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? in November 1984. “I’d only got one album under my belt, and suddenly, I was in there with all these stars I’d seen on TV, but they probably didn’t know me that well.” British album certifications – Paul Young – No Parlez". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 13 December 2021. Talking about The Congregation’s 1971 hit, Paul explains: “ Softly Whispering was one of those one-hit-wonder songs like Yesterday Has Gone by Cupid’s Inspiration and I’d always fancied trying it. I always earmarked every song I covered, although I was talked into Oh Girl by the record company. I’d originally thought it was a great song for a live encore, but a bit of a cop-out for a single.” Paul’s Tex-Mex troopers Los Pacaminos started out as a hobby band but have now been together for nearly three decades poptastic tales you probably never knew about the original Band Aid". Digital Spy. 12 November 2014 . Retrieved 21 March 2016.In 1993, Young was dropped from his contract with the CBS/ Sony Records label. He contributed to the Vangelis album Voices in 1995. Young sang the British national anthem, " God Save the Queen", at Wembley Stadium before England's Euro '96 semi-final match against Germany. In 2018, Paul Young celebrated 35 years of his debut album No Parlez. We chatted to him about this blue-eyed soul classic… In 1987 he went to studios in Milan to record his third album ‘Between Two Fires’ and met the Italian singer Zucchero. They became good friends, to collaborate later.

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Top Selling Albums of 1983 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved 2 February 2022. Hits of the World – Italy – Top Pop Albums" (PDF). Billboard. 22 December 1984. p.TA–12 . Retrieved 27 December 2021. Don't Dream It's Over", "Senza una donna (Without a Woman)" and "Both Sides Now" were featured on Young's first greatest hits album, From Time To Time – The Singles Collection (1991). [7]

Trailed by the single release of Softly Whispering I Love You, Other Voices hit No.4 in the UK album charts, with the biggest single from it becoming the record-company-insisted Oh Girl when it reached No.8 in the US charts. Synthesizer [Arp], Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards [Roland Mc4], Other [Two Pounds For A Good Time] – Matt Irving Music Director, Synthesizer [OBX], Sampler [Emulator], Marimba [Marimbas], Bells, Vocals, Vocoder, Piano, Sounds [Atmospherics] – The Reverend Ian Kewley*