BE TENDER WITH ME BABY

TINA TURNER

SONGWRITER: HOLLY KNIGHT

COUNTRY: U, S. A.

ALBUM: FOREIGN AFFAIR

LABEL: CAPITOL RECORDS

GENRE: POP ROCK

YEAR: 1989

 

       Tina Turner(born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer and actress. Widely referred to as the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Ike and Tina Turner Revue before launching a successful career as a solo performer.

       Turner began her career with Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm in 1957. Under the name Little Ann, she appeared on her first record, "Boxtop", in 1958. In 1960, she was introduced as Tina Turner with the hit duet single "A Fool in Love". The duo Ike & Tina Turner became "one of the most formidable live acts in history". They released hits such as "It's Gonna Work Out Fine", "River Deep – Mountain High", "Proud Mary", and "Nutbush City Limits" before disbanding in 1976.

      In the 1980s, Turner launched "one of the greatest comebacks in music history". Her 1984 multi-platinum album Private Dancer contained the hit song "What's Love Got to Do with It", which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her first and only Nº1 on the Billboard Hot 100. At age 44, she was the oldest female solo artist to top the Hot 100. Her chart success continued with "Better Be Good to Me", "Private Dancer", "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)", "Typical Male", "The Best", "I Don't Wanna Fight", and "GoldenEye". During her Break Every Rule World Tour in 1988, she set a then-Guinness World Record for the largest paying audience(180,000) for a solo performer. Turner also acted in the films Tommy(1975), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome(1985), and Last Action Hero(1993). In 1993, What's Love Got to Do with It, a biopic adapted from her autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story, was released. In 2009, Turner retired after completing her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour, which is the 15th highest-grossing tour of the 2000s. In 2018, she became the subject of the jukebox musical Tina.

         Foreign Affair is the seventh solo studio album by Tina Turner, released on September 13, 1989, through Capitol Records. It was Turner's third album release after her massively successful comeback five years earlier with Private Dancer and her third and last album with the label. Although the album was not a major success in Turner's native United States, it was a huge international hit, especially in Europe. The album reached number one on the UK Albums Chart, her first number one album there. Dan Hartman produced most of the tracks on the album, including the hit single "The Best", which has gone on to become one of Turner's signature songs.

You got the right to tell me it's all over

It isn't like me to be begging you

Don't let go, don't let go

Just stay with me another day

When I'm not myself please understand me

I'm so confused I don't know what to do

But don't give up, don't give up

It just may take a little time

 

Be tender with me baby

I'm so afraid you'll go away

Be tender with me baby

Always, for always

 

I know that you've been patient with my weakness

And that you hate to see me cry

But I know, yes I know

I doesn't have to be this way

But I'm so lonely I could die

 

Be tender with me baby

I'm so afraid you'll go away

Be tender with me baby

Always, for always

 

Why does my heart keep hurting

Why do I feel like I do

I hope you see this is not really me

That it's just a phase that I'm going through.

HOLD ME

TOM ODELL

SONGWRITERS: FRANCIS ANTHONY WHITE & TOM PETER ODELL

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: LONG WAY DOWN

LABEL: COLUMBIA RECORDS

GENRE: FOLK

YEAR: 2013

 

         Thomas Peter Odell(born 24 November 1990) is an English singer-songwriter. He released his debut extended play, Songs from Another Love, in 2012 and won the BRITs Critics' Choice Award in early 2013. His debut studio album, Long Way Down, was issued on 24 June 2013. His second studio album, Wrong Crowd, was released on 10 June 2016. In October 2018, his third studio album, Jubilee Road was released.

      Long Way Down is the debut studio album by British singer-songwriter Tom Odell. It was released on 24 June 2013 and serves as the follow-up to his 2012 extended play, Songs from Another Love. It serves as his first release with a major record label, and was released with Columbia. 

I shouldn't say it, but I'm starting to think I care

I've had a drink, you probably think my judgement isn't clear

And it's getting late now, we're a long way from our homes

Before you leave, before you grieve, there's one thing you should know

 

When you hold me, when you hold me in your arms

Oh, when you hold me, yeah I can feel your heart

When you hold me, when you hold me in your arms

Oh, when you hold me, yeah I can feel your heart beating

 

Suddenly I'm standing on a treetop up so high

And all the songs, and all the poems, suddenly they're right

And I'm dumbfounded by the breaths of your self control

But I don't care 'cause you're here, and you and I both know

 

When you hold me, when you hold me in your arms

Oh, when you hold me, yeah I'm picking out the stars

When you hold me, when you hold me in your arms

Oh, when you hold me, yeah I can feel your heart beating

 

Oh, when you hold me, hold me in your arms

Hold me, I can feel your heart

Hold me, when you hold me in your arms

Hold me, yeah I can feel your heart

 

When you hold me, hold me in your arms

Oh, when you hold me, I can feel your heart

Oh, when you hold me, when you hold me in your arms

Oh, when you hold me, yeah I can feel your heart beating.

NORTH AND SOUTH

THE CLASH

SONGWRITERS: BERNARD RHODES & JOE STUMMER

COUNTRY: U. K.

ALBUM: CUT THE CRAP

LABEL: EPIC RECORDS

GENRE: PUNK

YEAR: 1985

 

       The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 who were key players in the original wave of British punk rock. Billed as "The Only Band That Matters", they also contributed to the post-punk and new wave movements that emerged in the wake of punk and employed elements of a variety of genres including reggae, dub, funk, ska, and rockabilly. For most of their recording career, the Clash consisted of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Joe Strummer, lead guitarist and vocalist Mick Jones, bassist Paul Simonon, and drummer Nicky "Topper" Headon.

       Headon left the group in 1982 due to internal friction surrounding his increasing heroin addiction. Further internal friction led to Jones' departure the following year. The group continued with new members, but finally disbanded in early 1986. The Clash achieved critical and commercial success in the United Kingdom with the release of their self-titled debut album, The Clash(1977) and their second album, Give 'Em Enough Rope(1978). Their experimental third album, London Calling, released in the UK in December 1979, earned them popularity in the United States when it was released there the following month. A decade later, Rolling Stone named it the best album of the 1980s. Following continued musical experimentation on their fourth album, Sandinista!(1980), the band reached new heights of success with the release of Combat Rock(1982), which spawned the US top 10 hit "Rock the Casbah", helping the album to achieve a 2× Platinum certification there. A final album, Cut the Crap, was released in 1985 with a new lineup, and a few weeks later, the band broke up.

       In January 2003, shortly after the death of Joe Strummer, the band—including original drummer Terry Chimes—were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Clash number 28 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".

         Cut the Crap is the sixth and final studio album by the English punk band the Clash, released on 4 November 1985 by CBS Records. It was recorded in early 1985 at Weryton Studios, Munich, following a turbulent period: co-founder, lead guitarist and co-principal songwriter Mick Jones and drummer Topper Headon had been dismissed by lead vocalist Joe Strummer and bassist Paul Simonon. Jones and Headon were replaced by three unknowns: guitarists Vince White and Nick Sheppard and drummer Pete Howard. During the tense recording sessions, Clash manager Bernie Rhodes and Strummer fought each other for control over the band's songwriting and musical direction.

       Strummer and Rhodes co-wrote most of the songs. During production, Rhodes took charge of the arrangements, track sequencing and the final mix. His production choices, which rely heavily on Strummer's preference for synthetic drum sounds and Rhodes' own inclusion of sampling, were widely derided. One writer described the album's sound as brash and seemingly "designed to sound hip and modern—'80s style!". Rhodes chose the album title, taken from a line in the 1981 post-apocalyptic film Mad Max 2. On release, Cut the Crap was maligned in the UK music press as "one of the most disastrous [albums] ever released by a major artist". Strummer disowned the album and dissolved the Clash within weeks of its release.

     The recording process and tension between Rhodes and Strummer left other band members disillusioned. White's and Sheppard's contributions are almost entirely absent in the final mix, and Howard was replaced by an electronic drum machine. Epic Records hoped the album would advance the Clash's success in the United States, and planned an expensive video for a lead single.

        The album was poorly received upon release, and is still generally regarded as the band's worst album; Strummer performed only one song from the album live during his solo career, and the album has been excluded altogether from most of the Clash's compilations and box sets. Some retrospective assessments have been more sympathetic; a number of critics and writers have praised Strummer's songwriting and vocal performance, especially on the tracks "This Is England", "Dirty Punk" and "Three Card Trick".

And so we say

We ain't got life

Don't want a cardboard cut-out

Don't want a plastic knife

 

Now I know, time can march

With it's chargin' feet

Now I know, words are only cheap

It's gonna be a burn out

All around this town

The South is up

But the North is down

 

There's gonna be a killin'

Of a woman and a man

Trying to feed that child

Without a coin in their hand

 

And so we say

Have you no use

For eight million hands

And the power of youth

 

Now I know, time can march

With it's chargin' feet

Now I know, words are only cheap

It's gonna be a burn out

All around this town

The South is up

But the North is down

 

There's gonna be a killin'

Of a woman and a man

Trying to feed that child

Without a coin in their hand

 

It's gonna be a burn out!

 

And so we say

We ain't diggin' no graves

We're diggin' a foundation

For a future to be made

 

Now I know, time can march

With it's chargin' feet

Now I know, words are only cheap

It's gonna be a burn out

All around this town

The South is up

But the North is down

 

There's gonna be a killin'

Of a woman and a man

Trying to feed that child

Without a coin in their hand

 

It's gonna be a burn out!

THE BIRDS THEY PUT IN CAGES

TINA ARENA & GAROU

SONGWRITERS: WILL JENNINGS; LUC PLAMONDON & RICCARDO COCCIANTE

COUNTRYS: AUSTRALIA & CANADA

ALBUM: Notre Dame de Paris

LABEL: GUINESS WORLD RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 1999

 

        Filippina Lydia "Tina" Arena AM(born 1 November 1967) is an Australian singer-songwriter, musician, musical theatre actress and record producer. She is one of Australia's highest-selling artists and has sold over 10 million records worldwide. Arena is multilingual, singing and recording in English, Italian, French and Spanish.

     Arena has earned several international and national awards, including a BRIT Award, seven ARIA Awards and two World Music Awards for Best-selling Australian Artist(1996, 2000). In 2001, she was awarded a BMI Foundation Songwriting Award(Broadcast Music Inc) by the American performance rights organisation for co-writing "Burn" with Pam Reswick and Steve Werfel. In 2011, Arena became the first Australian to be awarded a knighthood of the French National Order of National Merit, presented by the President of the French Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, for her contributions to French culture, and ceremonially awarded by Frédéric Mitterrand, the Minister of Culture and Communication of France.

       In 2015, Arena was inducted into the Australian Recording Industry Association ARIA Hall of Fame. On Australia Day, 26 January 2016, Arena was recognised in the Australia Day Honours and appointed a member in the General Division of the Order of Australia "for significant service to the music industry as a singer, songwriter, and recording artist, and as a supporter of charitable groups". In 2016 Arena was appointed as a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).

    In March 2019, the Government of Australia appointed Arena as a board member of the Australia Council for the Arts for a three-year term.

Pierre Garand(born 26 June 1972), known by his stage name Garou (a diminutive of his last name "Garand"), is a Canadian singer and entertainer from Sherbrooke, Québec.

       He is known for his work in the musical Notre-Dame de Paris(playing Quasimodo in both the original French and English casts) and the Nº 1 hits "Belle", "Seul", "Sous le vent", and "La Rivière de notre enfance".

     Notre-Dame de Paris is a sung-through French musical which debuted on 16 September 1998 in Paris. It is based upon the novel Notre-Dame de Paris(known in English as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) by the French novelist Victor Hugo. The music was composed by Riccardo Cocciante(also known as Richard Cocciante) and the lyrics are by Luc Plamondon.

       Since its debut, it has been professionally played in Belgium, Canada, China, France, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States, and has been translated into eight languages (English, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Korean, Flemish, Polish, and Kazakh). A shorter version in English was performed in 2000 in Las Vegas, Nevada (United States) and a full-length London production, also in English, ran for seventeen months. Several songs from the show, such as "Vivre", "Belle" and "Le temps des cathédrales", have been released as singles with a huge success in French speaking countries.

       Notre-Dame de Paris, according to the Guinness Book of Records, had the most successful first year of any musical ever. The score has been recorded at least seven times to date (2007): the original French concept album, which featured Israeli singer Achinoam Nini(aka Noa) as Esmeralda was followed by a live, complete recording of the original Paris cast. A complete recording of the score in Italian was made, along with a single disc of highlights in Spanish from the Barcelona production. The original London cast album featured several of the original Paris stars, but only preserved a fraction of the score in English.

Will the birds they put in cages

Ever ride upon the wind?

Will the children life outrages

Ever learn to love again?

 

I lived my life like a swallow

I arrived here with the springtime

All the little streets I'd follow

All the gypsy song were mine

 

Where's my friend who rings the church bells?

Where are you my Quasimodo?

They will hang me as the light swells

You can break these bars I know

 

Esmeralda, have you left me?

Do you hide yourself away?

I have counted every hour

I have missed you every day

 

Have you left upon a journey

With your handsome, shining soldier

With no marriage, taking love free

Like the gypsy girl you are?

 

Have you died out in the small streets

With no prayer to get to Heaven?

There's a priest who counts tour heartbeats

If he comes near, you must run

 

You remember at the street fair

 

When they hurt me on the great wheel

 

When you begged, I gave you water

 

At your feet I had to kneel

 

Quasimodo and Esmeralda

On that day our friendship started

It will last as long as we live

Once together never parted

All we have to give we'll give

Will the birds they put in cages

Ever ride upon the wind?

Will the children life outrages

Ever learn to love again?