Sleeping with the Past

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Sleeping with the Past
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Studio album by
Elton John
Released4 September 1989 [1]
RecordedNovember 1988 – March 1989
StudioPuk, [2] Randers, Denmark
Genre Pop [3]
Length47:43
Label MCA (US), Rocket (UK)
Producer Chris Thomas
Elton John chronology
Reg Strikes Back
(1988)		Sleeping with the Past
(1989)		 The Very Best of Elton John
(1990)
Singles from Sleeping with the Past
  1. "Healing Hands"
    Released: August 1989 [4]
  2. "Sacrifice"
    Released: October 1989
  3. "Club at the End of the Street"
    Released: April 1990
  4. "Whispers"
    Released: November 1990 (EU)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Chicago Tribune Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [7]
Hi-Fi News & Record Review A:1 [8]
Los Angeles Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Sleeping with the Past is the twenty-second studio album by English musician Elton John, released on 4 September 1989. It is his best-selling album in Denmark (where it was recorded) and is dedicated to his longtime writing partner Bernie Taupin. The album features "Sacrifice" and "Healing Hands", which were issued as a double A-side and became John's first solo number-one single in his home country on the UK singles chart. The single's success helped the album also hit number one on the UK Albums Chart, his first since 1974's Elton John's Greatest Hits . It also became his first platinum album in the UK since 1985's Ice on Fire . In the US it was certified gold in October 1989 and platinum in April 1990 by the RIAA. Sleeping with the Past became John's best selling album of the 1980s. [9]

Contents

John and Taupin meant for the songs to reflect the style of 1960s R&B icons such as Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding and Sam Cooke, whom they admired.

Guy Babylon made his debut on this album and would continue to play keyboards with John for the next 20 years, while Fred Mandel left the Elton John Band shortly after. John went into rehabilitation in 1990. [10]

Background

With renewed creativity after 1988's Reg Strikes Back , Elton John and Bernie Taupin sought to create a cohesive album that had maintained a consistent theme. Inspired by the success of Billy Joel's 1983 album An Innocent Man , they decided to pay a similar tribute to the R&B sound of the 1960s and '70s that inspired them as youths. Taupin would listen to '60s soul songs and use those songs from the past to inspire new lyrics for their album. He would then write down which artists or songs influenced him. John would then use Taupin's lyrics as a guide to write a soul-influenced song based on the original source of inspiration. [11] As Taupin described to rock historian Steven P. Wheeler, "I said [to Elton] that we have to sit down and decide what we want to make, and make a cohesive album with a collection of songs that sound like they all fit together. So, we came up with the idea of going back and listening to the songs that inspired us when we first started writing songs, the time when R&B records were really great – the Chess days, the Stax records, and when Motown was at its peak. … So, I started dragging out all these old records and listening to them to get a feel, and we decided to basically make a white-soul album for the late ‘80s, and I think that’s what we’ve done.” [12]

Sleeping with the Past is the second of John's albums where he plays a Roland RD-1000 digital piano, which he used on all the songs except "Blue Avenue," on which he played the Bösendorfer acoustic piano at Puk Studios. [13] John used the Roland Digital on promotional appearances associated with the album and the subsequent Sleeping with the Past Tour. Davey Johnstone is the only member of the "classic" Elton John Band who appeared on the album—Dee Murray and Nigel Olsson being notable absences. Keyboardist Guy Babylon made his first appearance on an Elton John album, and also joined his touring band at the same time.

Months after the album's completion, John attributed its creative success to the certainty that some unpleasant chapters in his life, such as his battle with The Sun , were drawing to a close. In 1989 he said: "This is the first album I've made where I didn't have any pressures hanging over me...When I started it, I knew my personal life was going to be sorted out". Some years later he said: "I was sober when I recorded Sleeping with the Past - just". but that changed soon after: "I went off the rails when I did the tour afterwards". During the tour's first week, he collapsed onstage. [11]

The album was released late during John's 1989 American leg of his tour with little support from MCA Records. John canceled tour shows and interviews. In New Haven, Connecticut, on October 18, 1989, he rushed through his performance rarely talking to the audience. Midway through his concert, he announced he would not perform material from the new album because MCA was not promoting it. [14]

In addition to "Sacrifice", "Healing Hands" and "Club at the End of the Street", which were singles in both the UK and US, the songs "Whispers" and "Blue Avenue" were released as singles in parts of Continental Europe. "Whispers" reached No. 11 in France, [15] whilst "Blue Avenue" managed to reach the Top 75 in the Netherlands. "Blue Avenue" described his failed marriage to Renate Blauel. [16]

Three other songs were recorded during the sessions: "Dancing in the End Zone" and "Love is a Cannibal," both with Davey Johnstone as a co-writer, were released as B-sides to two of the album’s singles, and were later included as bonus tracks on CD re-issues of the album. "Love Is Worth Waiting For" had been demoed during the Reg Strikes Back sessions the year before and was further worked on at Puk but has never been released. This song, however, was performed live at an Athletes and Entertainers for Kids event in Los Angeles in July 1988, making one of only two Elton John/Bernie Taupin songs to be performed live but never officially issued. Another song, "Sugar And Fire," also did not make it past the demo stage. [17] "Love Is a Cannibal" was featured in the 1989 film Ghostbusters II. [18]

Wynonna Judd recorded a contemporary country music cover version of "Stone's Throw from Hurtin" which was featured in the 1992 film Leap of Faith starring Steve Martin. [19]

The album was later re-mastered (by John's longtime producer Gus Dudgeon) as part of the Elton John: The Classic Years series in 1998; and the rerelease included the aforementioned "Dancing in the End Zone" and "Love is a Cannibal" as bonus tracks.

Reception

Sleeping with the Past received lukewarm reviews when the album was released in 1989. After peaking at No. 6 in October 1989 on the UK Albums Chart, the re-release of "Sacrifice" as a double A-side with "Healing Hands" in June 1990, and that single's rise to the #1 spot, [20] Sleeping with the Past was propelled back up to the #1 position on the UK Albums Chart shortly afterwards, giving John his first No. 1 album in his home country since 1977. The feat was repeated when the greatest hits compilation The Very Best of Elton John was released in the autumn of 1990.

The album became his highest-selling studio album in the UK, being certified 3× Platinum [21] and spawned his first solo No. 1 hit in his home country.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Durban Deep"5:32
2."Healing Hands"4:23
3."Whispers"5:28
4."Club at the End of the Street"4:49
5."Sleeping with the Past"4:58
Side two
No.TitleLength
1."Stone's Throw from Hurtin'"4:55
2."Sacrifice"5:07
3."I Never Knew Her Name"3:31
4."Amazes Me"4:39
5."Blue Avenue"4:21
Total length:47:43
Bonus tracks (1998 Polygram International reissue)
No.TitleLength
11."Dancing in the End Zone"3:53
12."Love Is a Cannibal"3:52
Total length:55:28

Notes

Personnel

Musicians

Track numbering refers to CD and digital releases of the album.

Production

Charts

Certifications and sales

Certifications and sales for Sleeping with the Past
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [44] 4× Platinum280,000^
Austria (IFPI Austria) [45] Gold25,000*
Belgium (BEA) [45] Gold25,000*
Brazil (Pro-Música Brasil) [46] Gold100,000*
Canada (Music Canada) [47] 2× Platinum200,000^
France (SNEP) [48] Platinum700,000 [49]
Germany (BVMI) [50] Gold250,000^
Italy (FIMI) [45] 2× Platinum370,000 [51]
Japan—112,900 [52]
Netherlands (NVPI) [53] Gold50,000^
New Zealand (RMNZ) [54] 2× Platinum30,000^
Norway (IFPI Norway) [55] Gold50,000 [55]
Spain (PROMUSICAE) [56] Platinum100,000^
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland) [57] 2× Platinum100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [21] 3× Platinum1,000,000 [58]
United States (RIAA) [59] Platinum1,000,000^

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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