''Dreams Never Die'' is the fourth studio
album
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by
Tiffany, released on November 21, 1993 (see
1993 in music
This is a summary of significant events in music in 1993.
Specific locations
* 1993 in British music
* 1993 in Norwegian music
Specific genres
*1993 in country music
* 1993 in heavy metal music
* 1993 in hip hop music
* 1993 in Latin musi ...
). It represented an attempt to return to pop success three years after her last album, and five years after her last commercially successful one. It was released in various countries of
Asia
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, but not in the
United States
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; she had retained a greater degree of popularity in Asia than in the United States. An American release was planned but never released; it was expected to have some changes from the Asian version, because, as Tiffany said at the time, "A lot of the stuff in the Asia market is a little more pop than what I want to do here. I want to break away from the bubble gum thing... My goal is to do not hard rock, but a semi-rock sound." Earlier in 1993, Tiffany (who was by then married to makeup artist Bulmaro "Junior" Garcia and had given birth to her son Elijah) gave a series of performances at the
Las Vegas Hilton
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's casino lounge, which included songs from this album.
This album was produced by Tiffany's former manager,
George Tobin, with whom she had earlier split, and who had been widely criticized for his exploitative management style, but also widely credited for achieving Tiffany's pop success. However, this business relationship soon soured; according to Tiffany, this happened when she discovered that the songs Tobin had given her to sing on this album were previously used by another Tobin act,
PC Quest.
[Paoletta, Michael. "Tiffany Tells Stories Her Way", '' Billboard'', August 19, 2000, p. 1] Tiffany and Tobin went their separate ways, with Tiffany moving to
Nashville and attempting a career as a country singer; this, however, never led to any record releases, and by 2000 she was back to pop music. Tiffany eventually recorded her first country album, ''
Rose Tattoo
Rose Tattoo are an Australian rock and roll band, now led by Angry Anderson, which formed in Sydney in 1976. Their sound is hard rock mixed with blues rock influences, with songs including "Bad Boy for Love", "Rock 'n' Roll Outlaw", "Nice Bo ...
'', released 11 years later.
Track listing
Personnel
Musicians
*John Duarte - keyboards
*Bret Zwier - drums
*Grant Geissman - guitar
*Kevin Dukes - guitar
*
Keith Howland
Keith Howland (born August 14, 1964) is an American guitarist and singer. He was the lead guitarist for the veteran pop-rock band Chicago from 1995-2021.
Howland started playing the guitar at the age of seven, and he played in a number of band ...
- guitar
*Monty Byrom - guitar
*Doug Livingston - steel guitar
*Drew Nichols - acoustic guitar
Background vocals
*Tiffany
*Aaron Sheppard
*Brian Sheppard
*Kevin Sheppard
*Terry Wood
*Chad Petree
*Steve Petree
References
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1993 albums
Tiffany Darwish albums
MCA Records albums