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Released | 2000 | |||
Recorded | 1999–2000 | |||
Genre | rock, pop, blues | |||
Label | JAM | |||
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Live is an album by Elkie Brooks. Recorded live on tour in 1999 and 2000, it was released on CD in 2000 through JAM Records.
Since the album was only available on tour, it was not chart eligible.
Elkie Brooks is an English rock, blues and jazz singer. She was a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later became a solo artist. She gained her biggest success in the late 1970s and 1980s, releasing 13 UK Top 75 singles, and reached the top ten with "Pearl's a Singer", "Sunshine After the Rain" and the title track of the album No More the Fool. She has been nominated twice for Brit Awards.
Vinegar Joe were an English R&B band, formed in 1971 in London. They released three albums on Island Records, but were best known for their live shows and launching the solo careers of Elkie Brooks and Robert Palmer.
Michael Joseph Moody is an English guitarist, and a former member of the rock bands Juicy Lucy and Whitesnake. He was also a founder-member of Snafu. Together with his former Whitesnake colleague Bernie Marsden he founded the Moody Marsden Band, and later, The Snakes, having previously collaborated with unofficial 5th Status Quo member Bob Young in Young & Moody. Along with Marsden and ex-Whitesnake bassist, Neil Murray, he formed The Company of Snakes and M3 Classic Whitesnake with which they mainly performed early Whitesnake songs. From 2011 to 2015, Moody toured and recorded with Snakecharmer, a band he co-formed.
Two Days Away is an album by Elkie Brooks, released in 1977.
Shooting Star is an album by Elkie Brooks.
Live and Learn is an album by Elkie Brooks, released in 1979.
Pearls is a 1981 album by Elkie Brooks. It is in part a compilation album, featuring earlier singles mixed with newly recorded material. It went on to become a major hit in the UK - the biggest of her career.
Minutes is an album by British singer Elkie Brooks.
Bookbinder's Kid is a 1988 album by Elkie Brooks, the follow-up to her top five album No More the Fool.
Pearls III is an album by Elkie Brooks.
Nothin' But the Blues is an album by Elkie Brooks.
Circles is an album by Elkie Brooks.
Amazing is an album by Elkie Brooks.
The Pearls Concert is an album by Elkie Brooks, recorded in 1997 and released on CD and cassette in 1997 by Artful Records.
Live With Friends is a live album by Elkie Brooks, recorded live in 2005 at Classic T-Stage Studios and released on CD in 2007 through EMP Records.
Don't Cry Out Loud is a live album by Elkie Brooks, recorded live at the Shepherds Bush Empire, London, during her 2004 UK tour. It was released on CD in 2005 by Recall Records. The title song "Don't Cry Out Loud" was a hit single for Brooks in 1978.
Shangri-La is an album by Elkie Brooks. Recorded between 2001 and 2002 at Woody Bay Studios, it was released on CD in 2003 by Classic Pictures.
"Pearl's a Singer" is a song made famous by the British singer Elkie Brooks, as taken from her 1977 album Two Days Away which was produced by the song's co-writers Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The original version of "Pearl's a Singer" had been introduced by the duo Dino and Sembello – also the song's co-writers – on their 1974 self-titled album which Leiber and Stoller had produced.
No More the Fool is a 1986 album by Elkie Brooks. It includes the title track single which became the biggest hit of Brooks' career. Both the album and single peaked at No. 5 on the UK charts in early 1987.
"Fool " is the title of a popular song originally released in 1978 by the British singer-songwriter Chris Rea. Rea also wrote the lyrics and composed the music of the song, which appears on his 1978 debut album, Whatever Happened to Benny Santini? The single's charting success in the USA earned him a Grammy nomination as Best New Artist in 1979.