Black Cherry (Rachel Stamp song)

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"Black Cherry"
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Single by Rachel Stamp
from the album "Oceans of Venus"
B-side "Superstars of Heartache", "Executioner's Nightmare Song"
Released22 April 2002 (UK)
Genre Alternative rock, glam rock
Length9:51
Label Pure Stirling
Songwriter(s) Rachel Stamp
Producer(s) Roger Tebbutt
Rachel Stamp singles chronology
"Monsters of the New Wave"
(2000)
"Black Cherry"
(2002)
"Honey/Queen of the Universe"
(2004)
"Black Cherry"
Single by Rachel Stamp
from the album "Oceans of Venus"
B-side "Jet Black Supersonic", "Spank" (live video)
Released22 April 2002 (UK)
Length6:09
Label Pure Stirling
Songwriter(s) 'Black Cherry':
Ryder-Prangley/Crewdson
'Jet Black Supersonic':
Ryder-Prangley/Dax
'Spank': Rachel Stamp
Producer(s) 'Black Cherry':
Roger Tebbutt & Rachel Stamp
'Jet Black Supersonic':
Andy Hawkins

"Black Cherry" is a single by London glam rock band, Rachel Stamp. This single was the band's only single release via Pure Stirling and is the band's most successful single to date (reaching Number 71 on the UK Singles Chart in April 2002). The single was released across 2 CD Singles and a 7" Vinyl, with each release featuring exclusive B-sides. A promotional video for the single was filmed by Paul Harries and received a lot of airplay on Kerrang TV! and MTV2 in the UK.

Contents

CD 1 & 2

Released April 22, 2002
(CD SML 001 / CD SMLX 001)

CD 1 Track listing

  1. Black Cherry (radio edit)
  2. Superstars of Heartache
  3. Executioner's Nightmare Song

CD 2 Track listing

  1. Black Cherry (album version)
  2. Jet Black Supersonic
  3. Spank (Live at the London Astoria) (video)

7" Vinyl

Released April 29, 2002
(SML 001)

Track listing

  1. Black Cherry (album version)
  2. 2501 Astral Drive

Facts

Promotional video

Kerrang! Review

"THERE'S SOMETHING irresistible about Rachel Stamp's dogged campaign to bring a little perverted glamour back into rock n' roll.

Ideally 'Black Cherry' should only be listened to at Madison Square Garden as thunderous flashbombs illuminate garish under-dressed trannies administering 'oral relief' to the original members of Kiss. Back in the real world, however, David Ryder-Prangley's cartoon bad-ass vocals and filthy riffing with have you rifling through your mum's stiletto collection and tottering around your kitchen in ecstatic glee. Er, ... I've said too much haven't I?"

Reviewed by Paul Brannigan, Kerrang, April 2002 (rating KKK)

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References

[1] The Rachel Stamp Discography

[2] The Official Rachel Stamp website, retrieved via archive.org

[3] Information on "2501 Astral Drive

[4] The Rachel Stamp Videography

[5] Kerrang! Review