Life Goes On (Gerry Rafferty album)

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Life Goes On
Gerry Rafferty - Life Goes On.jpg
Studio album by
Released30 November 2009 (2009-11-30)
Genre Soft rock
Length77:19
LanguageEnglish
Label Hypertension Music
Producer
  • Hugh Murphy
  • Gerry Rafferty
Gerry Rafferty chronology
Days Gone Down: The Anthology: 1970–1982
(2006)
Life Goes On
(2009)
Gerry Rafferty & Stealers Wheel: Collected
(2011)

Life Goes On is the tenth studio album from Scottish soft rock musician Gerry Rafferty. Released on 30 November 2009 by Hypertension Music, it was the singer's final recording published before his 2011 death. [1]

Contents

Reception

Writing for Is this music?, Gary Marshall gave the album a three out of five, praising the singer's voice and some select tracks but noting that the album is over-produced and clearly made up of leftovers from previous albums. [2]

Track listing

All songs written by Gerry Rafferty, except where noted.

  1. "Kyrie Eleison" (Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) – 3:50
  2. "The Waters of Forgetfulness" (New Edit) – 4:53
  3. "Don't Speak of My Heart" (Gerry Rafferty, Jim Rafferty) – 5:58
  4. "Because" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:47
  5. "Everytime I Wake Up" (New Edit) (Rafferty, with a reading from Rainer Maria Rilke) – 5:20
  6. "Love and Affection" (New Edit) – 5:57
  7. "The Land of the Chosen Few" (New Edit) – 4:00
  8. "Life Goes On" (New Edit) – 3:06
  9. "Another World" (New Edit) – 3:52
  10. "Time's Caught Up On You" (New Edit) – 3:51
  11. "Conscious Love" – 4:28
  12. "Over My Head" – 2:50
  13. "Hang On" – 4:02
  14. "It's Easy to Talk" – 4:34
  15. "The Maid of Culmore" (Traditional) – 4:08
  16. "Your Heart's Desire" – 5:51
  17. "Adeste Fidelis" (Traditional) – 4:08
  18. "Silent Night" – 3:30

Personnel

"Kyrie Eleison"

"The Waters of Forgetfulness"

Recorded and engineered at Icon Studios, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom; with additional recording at Studio Miraval, France and Blue Wave Recording Studios, St. Philip, Barbados; and Parkgate Studios, Sussex, England, United Kingdom; drums recorded at Chipping Norton Studios, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom; mixed at The Hit Factory, London, England, United Kingdom; cut at Metropolis Mastering, London, England, United Kingdom

"Don't Speak of My Heart"

Recorded and engineered at Tye Farm, with additional recording at Chipping Norton Studios, strings recorded at The Hit Factory, mixed at Parkgate Studios.

"Because"

"Everytime I Wake Up"

"Love and Affection"

Recorded and engineered at Tye Farm, with additional recording at Chipping Norton Studios, strings recorded at The Hit Factory, mixed at Parkgate Studios.

"The Land of the Chosen Few"

Backing tracks recorded and completed at Icon Studios. Bagpipes, German monologue, and some of Gerry Rafferty's backing vocals and acoustic guitars recorded at Skibo Castle, Dornoch, Sutherland, Scotland, United Kingdom. Final mixes completed at Icon Studios in October 2000.

"Life Goes On"

Recorded and engineered at Tye Farm, with additional recording at Chipping Norton Studios, strings recorded at The Hit Factory, mixed at Parkgate Studios.

"Another World"

Recorded and engineered at Tye Farm, with additional recording at Chipping Norton Studios, strings recorded at The Hit Factory, mixed at Parkgate Studios. Backing track recorded at Blue Wave Recording Studios, completed at Icon Studios.

"Time's Caught Up On You"

"Conscious Love"

Backing track recorded at Blue Wave Recording Studios, completed at Icon Studios.

"Over My Head"

Recorded and engineered at Icon Studios, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom; with additional recording at Studio Miraval, France and Blue Wave Recording Studios, St. Philip, Barbados; and Parkgate Studios, Sussex, England, United Kingdom; drums recorded at Chipping Norton Studios, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom; mixed at The Hit Factory, London, England, United Kingdom; cut at Metropolis Mastering, London, England, United Kingdom

"Hang On"

Recorded and engineered at Tye Farm, with additional recording at Chipping Norton Studios, strings recorded at The Hit Factory, mixed at Parkgate Studios.

"It's Easy to Talk"

Recorded and engineered at Tye Farm, with additional recording at Chipping Norton Studios, strings recorded at The Hit Factory, mixed at Parkgate Studios.

"The Maid of Culmore"

"Your Heart's Desire"

"Adeste Fidelis"

"Silent Night"

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References

  1. Easy Ed (4 January 2011). "Gerry Rafferty RIP". No Depression . Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  2. Marshall, Gary (10 January 2010). "Gerry Rafferty Life Goes On – Album Review". Is this music?. Retrieved 19 July 2019.