THE CORRS - QUEEN OF HOLLYWOOD

QUEEN OF HOLLYWOOD

THE CORRS

SONGWRITERS: GLEN BALLARD; ANDREA JANE CORR; SEAN SYED HOSEIN & DANE ANTHONY DEVILLER

COUNTRY: IRELAND

ALBUM: TALK ON CORNERS

LABEL: LAVA RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1997

 

       Talk on Corners is the second studio album by Irish pop rock band The Corrs. It was released on 17 October 1997 by 143, Lava and Atlantic Records. Preceded by lead single "Only When I Sleep", which became a top ten hit internationally, the album was an immediate commercial success in several territories, including Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Its commercial performance elsewhere was initially modest, however.

         The Corrs' entire concert from the Royal Albert Hall was broadcast live the following year on BBC One on Saint Patrick's Day, where they were joined during their performance of "Dreams" by Fleetwood Mac drummer Mick Fleetwood. This event did much to raise the band's international profile. A remixed version of "Dreams" went on to become their first top ten hit on the UK Singles Chart. The record was reissued the following month to include the song as a bonus track. This would be the first of several different editions of Talk on Corners to be released over the album's two-year-long promotional cycle.

          Over this period, the band released a string of increasingly successful hit singles, culminating with a Tin Tin Out remix of "Runaway" peaking at number two in the UK. The Corrs also toured extensively to promote the record: the Talk on Corners World Tour saw them perform almost 160 concerts across twelve separate legs. The album spent ten weeks at number one in the UK. It ended its run as the highest-selling album of the year, and remains one of the best-selling albums of all time there, as well as the highest-selling album ever by an Irish act.

She drove a long way through the night

From an urban neighborhood

She left her mother in a fight

For a dream misunderstood

And her friends they talk on corners

They could never comprehend

 

But there was always something diferente

In the way she held a stare

And the pictures that she painted

Were of glamour and of flair

And her boyfriend though he loved her

Knew he couldn't quite fulfill

He could never meet her there

 

She's never gonna be like the one before

She read it in her stars that there's something more

No matter what it takes, no matter how she breaks

She'll be the Queen of Hollywood

 

And the cynics they will wonder

What's the difference with this dream

And the dreams of countless others

All believing in TV

They see their handprints in a sidewalk

Flashing cameras on the scene

And a shining limousine

 

She's never gonna be like the one before

She read it in her stars that there's something more

No matter what it takes, no matter how she breaks

She'll be the Queen of Hollywood

She's believing in a dream

(Queen of Hollywood)

It's a loaded fantasy, yeah, yeah, yeah...

 

Now her mother collects cut-outs

And the pictures make her smile

But if she saw behind the curtains

It could only make her cry

She's got hand prints on her body

Sad moonbeams in her eyes

Not so innocent a child

 

She's never gonna be like the one before

She read it in her stars that there's something more

No matter what it takes no matter how she breaks

She'll be the Queen of Hollywood, (Queen of Hollywood)

No she's never gonna be like the one before

She read it in her stars that there's something more

No matter what it takes and even though she breaks

She'll be the Queen of Hollywood

She's the Queen of Hollywood...

Queen of Hollywood, (Queen of Hollywood) and

Her friends still talk On Corners, (Queen of Hollywood)

Yeah yeah yeah-ie...

She's the Queen of Hollywood...

Queen of Hollywood...