Forever (Damage album)

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Forever
Damage-forever-front.jpg
Studio album by
Released7 April 1997
Length52:23
Label Big Life
Producer
  • Linslee Campbell
  • Cutfather & Joe
  • Dodge
  • The Ethnic Boyz
  • Fabian Hamilton
  • Steve Mac
  • Dominic Owen
  • Bryan Powell
  • Terri Robinson
  • Femi "Fem" Williams
Damage chronology
Forever
(1997)
Since You've Been Gone
(2001)
Singles from Forever
  1. "Anything"
    Released: 8 July 1996
  2. "Love II Love"
    Released: 30 September 1996
  3. "Forever"
    Released: 7 December 1996
  4. "Love Guaranteed"
    Released: 1 March 1997
  5. "Wonderful Tonight"
    Released: 28 April 1997
  6. "Love Lady"
    Released: 28 July 1997

Forever is the debut studio album by British boyband Damage. It was released on 7 April 1997 through Big Life Records. Produced by Cutfather & Joe, Dodge, Steve Mac, and others, it reached number 13 on the UK Albums Chart and was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on 1 May 1997. The highest-charting single from the album was a cover of the Eric Clapton cover "Wonderful Tonight", which peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart. Other hits to feature on the album include the album's title track "Forever", "Love Guaranteed" and one of the band's signature songs, "Love II Love."

Contents

Track listing

Forever track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
1."Reminder"
  • Coreé Richards
  • Noel Simpson
  • Jade Jones
  • Andrez Harriott
  • Rahsaan J Bromfield
Dodge2:38
2."Love II Love"
  • Powell
  • Dominic Owen
  • Aliway [a]
4:27
3."Love Guaranteed"
4:34
4."Girlfriend (The Morning After)"
  • Richards
  • Bromfield
  • Dodge McLean
  • Dodge
  • Don-E [c]
7:19
5."Let It Be Me"
Linslee Campbell4:45
6."Wonderful Tonight (Mission)" Eric Clapton Mac5:14
7."Love Lady"
  • Filo Brown
  • Mervyn Africa
  • Femi "Fem" Williams
Fem5:58
8."Anything (Personal Business)"
  • Terri Robinson
  • Dominic Owen
  • Fabian Hamilton
6:07
9."Be My Baby (M-Pyre)"
  • Robinson
  • Owen
  • Hamilton
  • Robinson
  • Owen
  • Hamilton
  • Giscombe [a]
8:33
10."Forever (Lady of Soul)"
  • Mac
  • Hector
  • Tennant
  • Johnson
Mac7:29
11."Do Me That Way"
  • Hector
  • Tennant
  • Johnson
  • Davies
  • The Ethnic Boyz
  • Aliway [a]
  • Mark Beswick [a]
3:48
12."Storyteller"
  • Campbell
  • Shelle [a]
  • Damage [a]
5:18
13."In Your Eyes (One Last Time)"
  • Campbell
  • Escoffery
  • Richards
  • Bromfield
  • Campbell
  • Shelle [a]
  • Damage [a]
12:13
Total length:52:23

Notes

Charts

Weekly chart performance for Forever
Chart (1997)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [1] 67
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [2] 57
European Albums Chart [3] 46
Scottish Albums (OCC) [4] 95
Taiwan Albums (IFPI) [5] 3
UK Albums (OCC) [6] 13

Certifications

Certifications for Forever
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
United Kingdom (BPI) [7] Silver60,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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