Shangri-La (Elkie Brooks album)

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Shangri-La
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Studio album by Elkie Brooks
Released 2003 (UK)
Recorded 2001/02
Genre Pop
Label Classic Pictures
Producer Jermaine Jordan
Elkie Brooks chronology
The Pearls Concert
(1997)		Shangri-La
(2003)		 Trouble in Mind
(2003)

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.

Elkie Brooks is an English singer, a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later a solo artist. She gained her biggest success in the late 1970s and 1980s and has been nominated twice for Brit Awards. She is known for her powerful husky bluesy voice and her 13 Top 75 singles such as "Pearl's a Singer", "Lilac Wine", "Don't Cry Out Loud", "Fool ", and "No More the Fool", and a record breaking run of hit albums. She is generally referred to as the "British Queen of Blues". Her 1981 "Pearls" album became the Biggest Selling album by a UK female artist in the history of the charts at that point.

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Track listing

  1. "Morello"
  2. "Naked in September"
  3. "Eliyahu"
  4. "Don't Be Stupid"
  5. "Set Me Free"
  6. "Avinu Malkenu"
  7. "Strange Fruit"
  8. "The Last Goodnight"
  9. "Got to Do It Right Away"
  10. "Never Known"
  11. "Shangri-la"
  12. "I Wanna Be (with You)"
  13. "Modern Slaves"

Personnel

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