Amazing (Elkie Brooks album)

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Amazing
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Studio album by Elkie Brooks
Released 1996
Recorded 1996
Genre Pop
Label Carlton Classics
Producer Trevor Jordan
Elkie Brooks chronology
Circles
(1995)		Amazing
(1996)		 The Very Best of Elkie Brooks
(1997)

Amazing is an album by Elkie Brooks.

Recorded in 1996 and released on CD and cassette in 1996 through Carlton Classics, the album reached number 49 and remained in the UK charts for 2 weeks.

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Track listing

  1. "Nights in White Satin"
  2. "One More Heartache"
  3. "Our Love"
  4. "Lilac Wine"
  5. "From the Heart"
  6. "Paint Your Pretty Picture"
  7. "Gasoline Alley"
  8. "Minutes"
  9. "Will You Write Me a Song"
  10. "Don't Cry out Loud"
  11. "Growing Tired"
  12. "Round Midnight"
  13. "It All Comes Back on You"
  14. "We've Got Tonight"
  15. "Off the Beaten Track"
  16. "No More the Fool"
  17. "Only Women Bleed"

Personnel

Elkie Brooks is an English singer, a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later a solo artist. She gained her biggest success in the late 1970s and 1980s and has been nominated twice for Brit Awards. She is known for her powerful husky bluesy voice and her 13 Top 75 singles such as "Pearl's a Singer", "Lilac Wine", "Don't Cry Out Loud", "Fool ", and "No More the Fool", and a record breaking run of hit albums. She is generally referred to as the "British Queen of Blues". Her 1981 "Pearls" album became the Biggest Selling album by a UK female artist in the history of the charts at that point.

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