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Ready To Run (album)
''Ready To Run'' is the debut and only album by former ''Fame Academy'' contestant Sinéad Quinn. It was poorly received and charted at No. 48 on the UK Albums Chart, which led to her being dropped by her record label. Track listing # "What You Need Is..." - 3:31 (Sinéad Quinn, Pete Glenister, Deni Lew) # "Never Happy" - 3:39 (Quinn, Glenister, Lew) # "Don't Give It Up Girl" - 3:31 (Quinn, Glenister, Lew) # "Ready To Run" - 4:17 (Quinn, Glenister, Lew) # " I Can't Break Down" - 3:31 (Quinn, Glenister, Lew) # "Fire Me Up" - 3:38 (Quinn, Tore Johansson) # "Small Town Big Dreams" - 4:10 (Quinn, Glenister, Lew) # "I'm Worth It" - 4:30 (Quinn, Glenister, Lew) # "Overkill" - 3:45 (Quinn, Glenister, Lew) # "Lucky Escape" - 4:03 (Quinn, Glenister, Lew) # "Love Me All The Way" - 3:59 (Quinn, Phil Thornalley, Dave Munday) # "Safe Hands" - 3:08 (Quinn, Phil Thornalley Phillip Carden Thornalley (born 5 January 1960) is an English songwriter, musician, and producer who has worked in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinéad Quinn
Sinéad Quinn (; born 24 March 1980) is a Northern Irish singer, best known as a contestant in the first series of the UK BBC TV series ''Fame Academy'' in 2002. She later went on to sign a recording contract, released an album, and had a #2 UK single with " I Can't Break Down" in February 2003. Career ''Fame Academy'' Quinn did not enter the ''Fame Academy'' in the same way as the other contestants. The first eleven contestants were picked by the show's judges, but the final contestant was picked through a public vote in the first program of the series. Quinn, David Sneddon, and Paul MacDonald sang in this vote, but Quinn won the public's support. She gained 51% of the votes and won her place in the ''Fame Academy''. During the course of the competition she sang a range of songs from Macy Gray's "I Try" and Garth Brook's "If Tomorrow Never Comes" to "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" and No Doubt's "Don't Speak". In the final, she was up against David Sneddon (who had entered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop/Rock
Pop rock (also typeset as pop/rock) is a fusion genre and form of rock music characterized by a strong commercial appeal, with more emphasis on professional songwriting and recording craft, and less emphasis on attitude than standard rock music. Originating in the late 1950s as an alternative to normal rock and roll, early pop rock was influenced by the Beat (music), beat, arrangements, and original style of rock and roll (and sometimes doo-wop). It may be viewed as a distinct genre field rather than music that overlaps with Pop music, pop and rock. The detractors of pop rock often deride it as a slick, commercial product and less Authenticity in art#Authenticity of performance, authentic than rock music. Characteristics and etymology Much pop and rock music has been very similar in sound, instrumentation and even lyrical content. The terms "pop rock" and "power pop" have been used to describe more commercially successful music that uses elements from, or the form of, roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mercury Records
Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group. It had significant success as an independent operation in the 1940s and 1950s. Smash Records and Fontana Records were sub labels of Mercury. Mercury Records released rock, funk, R&B, doo wop, soul music, blues, pop, rock and roll, and jazz records. In the United States, it is operated through Republic Records; in the United Kingdom and Japan (as Mercury Tokyo in the latter country), it is distributed by EMI Records. Background Mercury Records was started in Chicago in 1945 and over several decades, saw great success. The success of Mercury has been attributed to the use of alternative marketing techniques to promote records. The conventional method of record promotion used by major labels such as RCA Victor, Decca Records, and Capitol Records was dependent on radio airplay, but Mercury Records co-founder Irving Green decided to promote new records using jukeboxes instead. By lowering promotion ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pete Glenister
Pete Glenister is an English guitarist, songwriter and producer, known for his collaborations with Alison Moyet and Kirsty MacColl. He has also worked with a number of other artists including Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Bruce Foxton, Terence Trent D'Arby, Bros (British band), Bros, E. G. Daily, Mary Coughlan (singer), Mary Coughlan, Geoffrey Williams, Five Thirty, Bryan Ferry and Raphael Gualazzi. Background Glenister was the guitarist in the New wave music, new wave band The Hitmen (British band), the Hitmen, who produced two albums, ''Aim for the Feet'' (1980) and ''Torn Together'' (1981). He went on to form a long creative partnership with Kirsty MacColl, contributing guitar and co-writing songs with the singer, which were included on her albums ''Kite (Kirsty MacColl album), Kite'' (1989), ''Electric Landlady'' (1991), ''Titanic Days'' (1993) and ''Tropical Brainstorm'' (2000). Glenister began writing and working with Alison Moyet after a brief spell as guitarist on her 1987 world t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fame Academy
''Fame Academy'' was a British television talent competition to search for and educate new musical talents. The winner would receive a chance to become a successful music artist and part of the international franchise ''Star Academy'' known under various titles in various countries. In the UK version, the prize consisted of a £1m recording contract with a major record company, plus the use of a luxury apartment in London and a sports car for one year. It was broadcast by the BBC and co-produced by an Endemol company called Initial. The first series was won by David Sneddon and the second and final series was won by Alex Parks, it would be cancelled 1 year after its release, on 4 October 2003. Starting in 2003, '' Comic Relief Does Fame Academy'' saw celebrities singing as students of the academy with proceeds from the phone votes being donated to the charity. Format The format was originally created in the Netherlands under the title ''Star Maker'', and has already achieved ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Albums Chart
The Official Albums Chart is the United Kingdom's industry-recognised national record chart for album, albums. Entries are ranked by sales and audio streaming. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on Fridays (previously Sundays). It is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 (top 5) and found on the OCC website as a Top 100 or on ''UKChartsPlus'' as a Top 200, with positions continuing until all sales have been tracked in data only available to industry insiders. However, even though number 100 was classed as a hit album (as in the case of ''The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums'') in the 1980s until January 1989, since the compilations were removed, this definition was changed to Top 75 with follow-up books such as ''The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums'' only including this data. As of 2021, Since 1983, the OCC generally provides a public charts for hits and weeks up to the Top 100. Business customers can require a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Can't Break Down
"I Can't Break Down" is a song written by Sinéad Quinn, Pete Glenister, and Deni Lew for Quinn's debut album, '' Ready to Run'' (2003). Produced by Glenister and Lew, it was released as her debut single from the album in February 2003 and reached a peak of number two on the UK Singles Chart. It finished at number 65 on the UK year-end chart for 2003. Background and writing Quinn finished as the runner-up in the first series of ''Fame Academy'' behind David Sneddon, who had a number-one single with "Stop Living the Lie" in January 2003. She signed a record deal with Mercury Records a week after the final and revealed that she would release her debut single on 10 February 2003. The song was written by Quinn during her time on ''Fame Academy''. ''Fame Academy'' differed from the similar ''Pop Idol'' in that the contestants were able to develop their all-round musical talents and write original material during their time on the show. In an interview with the BBC she revealed how h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tore Johansson
Tore Johansson (born 6 November 1959) is a Swedish record producer, composer and musician based in Malmö, Sweden. Biography In an interview with ''HitQuarters'', Johansson claimed that the main impetus for his becoming a music producer was the lack of good recording studios in the Malmö area at that time in which to record his own band. As a result, "my friends and me decided to build a studio for recording our own music, and then I started to record other bands here and ended up as an engineer/producer. It wasn’t something I had planned.""Interview With Tor Johansson" ''HitQuarters'', 11 February 2008. Untutored in the art of recording, he acquired his skills through "trial and error". His main inspiration at that time was cla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Thornalley
Phillip Carden Thornalley (born 5 January 1960) is an English songwriter, musician, and producer who has worked in the music industry since 1978. He produced the album ''Pornography'' by The Cure and was later their bass player. He began releasing his own music in 1988 and briefly joined the band Johnny Hates Jazz. In later years he worked principally as a songwriter, and is perhaps best known for co-writing the song " Torn" (made famous by Natalie Imbruglia) and for writing two UK number one hits for Pixie Lott. Starting in the 2010s he released more solo music under his own name and as Astral Drive. Biography Thornalley was born in Worlington, Suffolk. He began working as a recording engineer in 1978 at RAK Studios in London for producers Mickie Most, Steve Lillywhite and Alex Sadkin. His first major role as a producer was for the 1982 album ''Pornography'' by The Cure.Rees, Dafydd & Crampton, Luke (ed.) ''Rock movers & shakers, Volume 1991, Part 2'' (1991), , ("...the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Official Charts Company
The Official UK Charts Company Limited (formerly Music Industry Chart Services Limited), trading as the Official Charts Company (OCC) or the Official Charts (formerly the Chart Information Network), is a British inter-professional organisation that compiles various official record charts in the United Kingdom, Ireland and France. In the United Kingdom, its charts include ones for singles, albums and films, with the data compiled from a mixture of downloads, purchases (of physical media) and streaming. The OCC produces its charts by gathering and combining sales data from retailers through market researchers Kantar, and claims to cover 99% of the singles market and 95% of the album market, and aims to collect data from any retailer who sells more than 100 chart items per week. The OCC is operated jointly by the British Phonographic Industry and the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) (formerly the British Association of Record Dealers (BARD)) and is incorporated as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinéad Quinn Albums
Sinéad ( , ) is an Irish feminine name. It is derived from the French ''Jeanette'', which is cognate to the English Janet, itself a feminine form of the Hebrew ''Yohanan'', "God forgave/God gratified". In English, ''Sinéad'' is also commonly spelled ''Sinead''. The name is generally translated into English as either ''Jane'' or ''Jennifer'', or as the Scottish female name ''Jean''. Notable people and characters with the name include: People Sports * Sinéad Cahalan, camogie player * Sinead Farrelly (born 1989), American soccer player * Sinead Jennings (born 1976), rower * Sinead Kerr (born 1978), ice dancer * Sinéad Millea, former camogie player * Sinead Miller (born 1990), cyclist * Sinéad Russell (born 1993), Olympic swimmer Music * Sinéad Harnett (born 1990), singer/songwriter * Sinéad Lohan (born 1971), singer/songwriter * Sinéad Madden, singer/songwriter * Sinéad Mulvey (born 1988), singer, air hostess * Sinéad O'Carroll (born 1973), singer with Irish pop b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
