Edge of Winter

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Edge of Winter
EdgeOfWinter.jpg
Studio album by
Sharon O'Neill
Released27 August 1990 [1]
Recorded1990
Genre Pop
Label Polydor
Producer Alan Mansfield
Sharon O'Neill chronology
Danced in the Fire
(1987)		Edge of Winter
(1990)		 The Very Best of Collette and Sharon O'Neill
(1991)
Singles from Edge of Winter
  1. "Satin Sheets"
    Released: 18 June 1990 [2]
  2. "Poster Girl"
    Released: 18 March 1991 [3]

Edge of Winter is the sixth studio album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Sharon O'Neill. The album was released by Polydor in August 1990. The album marks O'Neill's last solo studio album of new material. All the songs were written by O'Neill or co-written with guitarist/keyboardist Alan Mansfield of Dragon, [4] who is also her domestic partner. O'Neil and Mansfield had written tracks for Dragon including "Young Years" for their 1989 album Bondi Road. [4] Mansfield also produced the album.

Contents

The album's lead single, "Satin Sheets" reached No. 106 in Australia. [5] The follow-up single, "Poster Girl", did not chart. There is also a new, more modern version of the 1983 single "Losing You" featured on the album.

Background

Sharon O'Neill began her career in the 1970s in New Zealand, then gained major success in Australia. [6] The early 1980s proved O'Neill's most commercially successful solo period, [6] however a legal battle with her then record company CBS caused a delay in her career. O'Neill returned with 1987's Danced in the Fire on Polydor, and recorded her follow-up, Edge of Winter, for the same label.

Edge of Winter was not a commercial success, neither were its two singles "Satin Sheets" and "Poster Girl". Speaking to The Sydney Morning Herald in April 1991, O'Neill said: "I would like for it to be heard more. Whether that's my fault or the record company's I don't know. But there just hasn't been enough support from radio. The album was released at a terrible time and it probably got swallowed up." [7]

In 2014, O'Neill was interviewed by Murray Cammick for Audio Culture. When speaking of her career with Polydor, she said: "It was great doing the two Polydor albums, I put a lot of hard work into them but the last album Edge Of Winter is as scarce as hen's teeth, I've only got one copy. They only made a certain amount." [8]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Sharon O'Neill and Alan Mansfield except where noted.

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Prelude (To the Edge of Winter)" 1:11
2."Satin Sheets" 3:50
3."In Our Dreams" 4:38
4."Strangers Come"O'Neill4:06
5."Sunday Driving" 3:35
6."Little One" 4:28
7."Edge of Winter"O'Neill5:14
8."Losing You"O'Neill3:55
9."I Know You Love Me" 4:12
10."Missing Person"O'Neill5:02
11."Poster Girl"O'Neill3:06

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References

  1. ↑ The ARIA Report. Vol. 33. ARIA. 26 August 1990. p. 20.
  2. ↑ The ARIA Report. Vol. 23. ARIA. 17 June 1990. p. 19.
  3. ↑ "New Release Summary – Product Available from: 18/03/91 (from The ARIA Report Issue No. 60)". Imgur.com. Retrieved 31 March 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA. Archived from the original on 5 December 2007. Retrieved 13 October 2008. Note: requires user to input song title e.g. EDGE OF WINTER
  5. ↑ http://imgur.com/11R0bwv [ bare URL ]
  6. 1 2 Guest, Thomas J. (1991). Thirty Years Of Hits (1960–1990). Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia: M. J. Moloney. ISBN   0-646-04633-0.
  7. ↑ Thomas, Brett (14 April 1991). "O'Neill fighting back after album's chilly reception". The Sydney Morning Herald.
  8. ↑ "Sharon O'Neill: The 9/12 transcript". Audio Culture. 6 May 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
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