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| 1. | One Big Soul
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| 2. | Black Kiss
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| 3. | My Love
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| 4. | Open All Night
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| 5. | My Hand Over My Heart
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| 6. | Love To Die For
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| 7. | Child Star
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| 8. | Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart
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| 9. | The Days Of Pearly Spencer
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| 10. | A Lover Spurned
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| 11. | The Idol
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| 12. | Jacky
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| 13. | Tears Run Rings
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| 14. | Bedsitter
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| 15. | Tainted Love
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| 16. | Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
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| 17. | Marc Almond Biography
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| 18. | Exclusive Interview with Marc Almond
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| 19. | Discography
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Marc Almond shot to prominence in 1981 as the front man and face of the synth pop duo Soft Cell when their dance-orientated debut single, Tainted Love became a major hit worldwide. This DVD captures him in excellent form during his 2000 European Tour filmed at The Lokerse Feesten in Belgium.
The concert opens with a selection of his recent work, including three songs from his critically acclaimed 1999 album, Open All Night. These are followed by performances of his biggest hits from the Eighties and Nineties.
Over the years Almond has always maintained his musical integrity and has continued to develop his highly distinctive style of torch singing. Often challenging and occasionally dealing with controversial and sleazy themes, his eclectic musical style has gained a loyal following with his fans and he remains a favorite with club and dance audiences around the world.
Marc Almond
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Jul 09, 1959 in Southport, England
Genre: Rock
Styles: Dance-Pop, Synth Pop, Alternative Pop/Rock, New Wave, Pop/Rock, New Romantic
After disbanding Soft Cell, vocalist Marc Almond pursued a solo career that followed the same vaguely sleazy, electronic dance-pop his former group had made popular. Almond's strength was never his personality -- his voice tends to waver around the notes instead of hitting them. It was the atmosphere he created with the synths and drum machines. Underneath all of the electronics and disco rhythms, Almond harked back to the days of cabaret singers, updating that sound for the dance clubs of the '80s.
Before he properly started a solo career, Almond formed Marc & the Mambas, a loose congregation that featured Matt Johnson of The The and Annie Hogan. Untitled (1982), the group's first album, featured covers of Lou Reed, Syd Barrett, and Jacques Brel; throughout his career, Almond would cover the songs of Brel, which he had learned from the records of Scott Walker. Like Walker, Almond used Brel's heavily orchestrated compositions and social ruminations as a starting point, both musically and lyrically -- Almond added a self-conscious element of camp with his Euro-disco and occasionally sleazy lyrics. Torment & Toreros (1983), Marc & the Mambas' second album, explored this path in more detail than Untitled, only to an orchestral background. After its release, the group broke up.
Almond formed the backing group the Willing Sinners in 1984, releasing Vermin in Ermine in 1984. Almond began to hit his stride with this album, which fulfilled most of his campy cabaret fantasies. Stories of Johnny, released the following year, was more cohesive, spawning a British hit with the title song. Even though he maintained a cult following in England and various parts of Europe, his records were not being released in the U.S.
In 1987, Almond released Mother Fist and Her Five Daughters, his first proper solo album and his bleakest work to date; a compilation, Singles: 1984-1987, appeared the same year. Stars We Are, released the following year, was a brighter, more welcoming album that revived his commercial career. In addition to a duet with Nico on "Your Kisses Burn," Almond dueted with Gene Pitney on Pitney's own "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart," which became a number one single. Stars We Are also became his first album released in the U.S. since Soft Cell.
Almond followed the success of Stars We Are in 1990 with the pet project Jacques, a collection of Brel songs. That same year, he released Enchanted, which was more successful than Jacques, yet didn't reach the heights of Stars We Are. In 1991, he released The Tenement Symphony, and in 1993, a live album entitled Twelve Years of Tears, followed by a pair of albums on EMI. Almond then switched over to New York independent Thirsty Ear, who reissued some of his material, and then again to Instinct with his 1999 release Open All Night. Through the early 2000s, Almond stayed busy releasing archived live performances on both CD and DVD as well as issuing the studio efforts Stranger Things (2001) and Heart on Snow (2003) for yet another label, Psychobaby. Almond continued to write during this period, publishing a travel book called -In Search of the Pleasure Palace: Disreputable Travels in 2004.
Things took a turn for the worse soon after the book came out; Almond was involved in a serious motorcycle accident in October of that year and spent the majority of the following year recovering from the incident. Almond resumed recording in 2006 and released an album of cover songs, Stardom Road, the following summer. Another full-length release, Dining with Panthers, was said to be in the works for 2008.
---Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide |
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