Word: albums
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gift has made his biggest noise on the record charts with the Cannibals. Their latest album, The Raw & the Cooked, has sold 3 million copies worldwide since January. The first single, She Drives Me Crazy, hit No. 1 on the U.S. charts, and a second, Good Thing, is just breaking. The band also features a couple of dexterous guitarists, Andy Cox and David Steele, formerly of the English Beat. But it's Gift everyone is noticing at the moment. He's got a supple way with a tune, and a promising presence onscreen...
However he feels around cod, Gift has a smooth, soulful way around a tune. His voice sounded a little uncertain on a remake of Elvis' Suspicious Minds, from the first Cannibals album, Fine Young Cannibals, released in 1985. The sensual assurance Gift acquired on The Raw & the Cooked may come from some special attention he has been lavishing on his vocal cords. "I do go to see someone now and again for guidance about my voice," he reports. "But it's for moral guidance, because I think there's more to singing than just songs." A Cannibals tune like...
Reading this slight, elegant book is a bit like having a guided tour through an album of family snapshots. There, notes your cicerone, is Great-Great-Uncle George, who built that incredible castle in North Carolina. Here is Great-Aunt Adele, blithe and beautiful, seated next to her sad cousin Consuelo -- she had to marry a duke, you know...
MADONNA: LIKE A PRAYER (Sire). The title track is creating all the fuss, but this is a fine pop album, with a couple of the best tracks ('Til Death Do Us Part and Promise to Try) sounding as intimate as a confessional. Memorable from start to finish, and danceable throughout...
...self. You're never the same again. Life is looking up. I am a crying towel, but thank God I can do that. I don't know where I'd be if I didn't cry at least once a week." That's the real beat beneath her new album. The faint sound of broken hearts mending. The rhythm of life restored...