Thanks to northernsoul and thanks for bringing it over sunday, what a fantastic read from the RCA site, could I be anymore excited about getting my hands on this album? I don't think so! :yahoo: :w00t: :dance:

Seems he's really enjoying being more involved in the songwriting. Could explain his new expenxsive piano. :)

Edited July 31, 200816 yr by truly talented

Thanks for bringing it over Sunday.

"I don't take any of this for granted, but if I can continue making music like this for the rest of my life, I'll be a happy man."

If you continue to make this music for the rest of MY life William - I'll be a happy woman. I love you

 

Most of the vocals are original demo vocals, recorded as I'm writing the song, because you are in the moment and you're not really thinking about it.

 

 

Although he has been co-composer on some beautiful songs (including 'Your Game', the 2005 Brit Award Winner for Best British Single), Will says, "I really started to feel like a songwriter on this album. I write all the time now, I never really stop. My aim is to make great pop songs that are really personal but with a strong sense of storytelling. I don't want to be self-indulgent and just sit in my study and wallow in my own misery. You have to have a sense of an audience, even one person in a room can make a difference. They are tales that I hope people can understand, or learn from, or relate to, or even make them question things in their life."

 

After making two albums with legendary producer Steve Lipson, Will made the decision to work with a variety of producers for ‘Let It Go’. “It was time to move on but it was scary. With different producers so much more responsibility falls on me, because the voice has to really hold the album together.” Will’s relationship with Lipson continues on two tracks, the epic ballad ‘Tell Me The Worst’ and silkily syncopated George Michael-esque funk of ‘Love’. “We have an old school singer-producer relationship that is very important to me because it really moulded me. I wanted that to continue but I also wanted something a bit more rough and ready.”

 

He found that with one of his long established songwriting partners, Eg White, the Ivor Award winning composer of 'Leave Right Now' (most recently spotted assisting the breakthrough artists of 2008, Duffy and Adele). “Eg’s demos were always a little bit clangy and clashy but they had a lot of life in them and that’s what I liked, there’s nothing clinical about his production. I knew he wouldn’t move away from the honesty of the songs and over-polish what didn’t need embellishing.

 

Other Will and Eg collaborations include the beautiful ‘Let It Go’ (“that’s my mantra to myself,” says Will) and the orchestral groove of ‘I Won’t Give Up’, co-produced and mixed by ultrahip clubland duo The Freemasons. “I think very carefully about who to collaborate with. Eg found this brilliant string section in Nashville, the Love Sponge Strings, and their arrangement is quite fantastic but we needed a bit more rhythm. You wouldn’t really associate The Freemasons with me but it works, because its like a disco track led by the strings. We’ve kept it really sparse, so the strings almost joust with the vocals.” Will jokingly refers to ‘I Won’t Give Up’ as “the stalker song”. “It’s such a declaration of love, it could be misconstrued, someone could actually be arrested for this and not be allowed within a mile of the object of their affection! It’s about seeing someone who is right for you and making yourself vulnerable and saying exactly what you feel. It’s actually a very brave song.”

 

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Will is someone totally involved in every aspect of their career - there's no faking that. I want to hear the rest of this album so very much.

 

Some people may not like his music but don't ANYONE dare suggest that this man has no talent .

Edited July 31, 200816 yr by munchkin

Will jokingly refers to ‘I Won’t Give Up’ as “the stalker song”. “It’s such a declaration of love, it could be misconstrued, someone could actually be arrested for this and not be allowed within a mile of the object of their affection! It’s about seeing someone who is right for you and making yourself vulnerable and saying exactly what you feel. It’s actually a very brave song.”

 

Sounds like the idea behind The Police song Every Breath You Take, which Sting said was about stalking!

 

Thanks for posting the article. Will certainly sound in control - what a clever man he is.

Thanks sunday. Brilliant read. :cheer:

From Closer.

 

Will hasn't been Idol!

 

Will Young releases his ace new album, Let It Go, on 29 September, and he told me "I'm so excited - I wasn't comfortable with the last album, but I feel less pressure doing this one." The Pop Idol winner is also ecstatic his UK tour has sold out. "We had to add extra dates - I was thrilled." Bless!

 

:D

 

Thanks to Mary on Devoted.

Thanks to Bumbling for all these snippets from the Star & Mirror.

 

Daily Star.

 

Will Young licking Victoria sponge off Lisa Moorishs face at Punks Smash & Grab Night

Mention in a Duffy interview.

 

Reckons its time for the likes of James Blunt, Will Young & James Morrison to come out fighting & give the girsl some competition

 

Clocked in the Mirror- little pic too

 

Will Young running near Russell Square, London

 

Thanks to Bumbling and thanks for bringing them over TT, that boys eating habits are getting terrible. :nono:

Thanks to Bumbling and thanks for bringing them over TT, that boys eating habits are getting terrible. :nono:

 

:lol:

 

Thanks TT.

From to-day Observer mag (with many thanks to bumbling)

 

Soundtrack of my life: Will Young

 

The inaugural Pop Idol winner tells Will Hodgkinson how a wolf and the Spiders from Mars shaped his love of music

<LI class=byline>Interview by Will Hodgkinson <LI class=publication>The Observer,

Sunday August 10 2008

Article history

The record that started it all

Peter And The Wolf Prokofiev (1936)

My gran had a record player, and she had a sunroom at the top of her bungalow where we listened to this. She threw away her record, which I wish she hadn't, because I'm sure someone fabulous like Peter O'Toole narrated it. It's the only music I remember from when I was really young - four or five - but a few years later I'd listen to my parents' Beatles albums. On holiday in South Africa we had Revolver on in the car the whole time. If people come round for Sunday lunch my parents start singing 'Taxman' as they reminisce about the old days - really embarrassing.

When I first began to sing

Dancing Queen Abba (1976)

I went to an archaic, very strict boarding school called Horace Hill, near Newbury, where classical music was played through loudspeakers every night. There was no way to escape it, and they tended to play the very worst sort - horrible cello solos and so on. Our treat, on a Saturday night, was classical pop, like Julian Lloyd Webber's Variations. Even then, aged 10, I knew it was awful. Occasionally for a special treat we had Abba. The music was intended as a way of calming us down, but thinking about it there's a rather sinister, Big Brother aspect to it all.

When I hit adolescence

Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm Joni Mitchell (1988)

I went through a moody phase from 12 to 13 and listened to this all the time. I'm now covering one of her songs, which is a dangerous thing to do - it's called 'Help Me' and is one of the hardest songs to sing you will ever come across - but it makes you realise how brilliant she is. The timing and the phrasing are so different from what most people do. At my prep school you were only allowed to play your own music for an hour on Wednesdays. I would sneak in a Walkman and hide it in various places. I hid it in the ceiling. This album was on it.

When I rediscovered my love of music

Antidotes Foals (2008)

From winning Pop Idol to about two years ago, I hardly listened to music. I stopped going to gigs or buying records. It was upsetting: finally I was doing what I had always dreamed of and suddenly music was just work. If I did listen to an album I'd just work out what its recording budget was, or compared it to mine. The mystique and innocence were gone. But recently, because I'm more chilled, and now getting pissed off about acting auditions instead, I'm enjoying music again. This is one of my favourite recent discoveries. It's very different and interesting.

After I split with my boyfriend

Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars (1973)

I didn't really 'get' David Bowie until a few years ago, when I watched a documentary on his 1973 US Spiders From Mars tour. I texted my ex-boyfriend, who is obsessed with Bowie, to tell him I'd finally got it. It was a revelation. If I were a teenager back then I'd be dressing up like him. It makes things now seem a bit $h!t and tame, and after watching it I thought, 'I may as well stop music because it's pointless compared to what Bowie did three decades ago.' It's amazing theatre, with tricks like going up on a giant telephone. He's really sexy, but sexless at the same time.

Strange and possibly true

 

1 Should the hits and the acting roles dry up, Will Young would like to retrain as a zoologist.

2 Young only came out to the press as gay after the Mail on Sunday threatened to 'out' him. 'I don't want to be defined as a gay pop star, much the same as I don't want to be defined as a public-schooled one,' he says.

3 If he didn't have to worry about his weight, he would like to eat bacon sandwiches every day.

4 He once told Graham Norton: 'I could never go out with you. It would destroy my career.'

5 A large proportion of Young's fanbase is made up of women hoping that they can 'turn' him. There have not been any reported successes of turning so far.

Á An album, Let it Go, is out on 29 September on RCA/SonyBMG. A single, Changes, is released on 14 September.

 

 

 

 

These go with it:-

 

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Edited August 10, 200816 yr by chrysalis

Thanks chrysalis.

 

I love that Will appreciates the talents of David Bowie. He was my teen idol. Bowie never played it safe & for more is one of the most inovative artists of the last 50 years. I take it the x boyfriend must have been Aaron. I'm sure I've seen a pic of him with the Aladin Sane flash across his face.

Thanks chrysalis.

 

I love that Will appreciates the talents of David Bowie. He was my teen idol. Bowie never played it safe & for more is one of the most inovative artists of the last 50 years. I take it the x boyfriend must have been Aaron. I'm sure I've seen a pic of him with the Aladin Sane flash across his face.

 

 

Glad someone's up and about TT. Mawnin'.

 

You are probably right - must admit to assuming it was the last one. :unsure:

Thanks chrysalis.

 

I love that Will appreciates the talents of David Bowie. He was my teen idol. Bowie never played it safe & for more is one of the most inovative artists of the last 50 years. I take it the x boyfriend must have been Aaron. I'm sure I've seen a pic of him with the Aladin Sane flash across his face.

 

I think so too - he says "a few years ago". Not too keen on the little picture but the big one's nice. Not really an in depth interview more just a Q&A I feared it may be. But it is about the tracks of his years so it would be looking back rather forward to his new stuff. Choosing to ignore all the c**p at the bottom of the article :rolleyes:

 

Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm Joni Mitchell (1988)

I went through a moody phase from 12 to 13 and listened to this all the time.I'm now covering one of her songs, which is a dangerous thing to do - it's called 'Help Me' and is one of the hardest songs to sing you will ever come across - but it makes you realise how brilliant she is. The timing and the phrasing are so different from what most people do.

 

He never shies away from a challenge does he :P

 

Thanks Chrysalis.

Edited August 10, 200816 yr by munchkin

Thanks for bringing the article over chrysalis, it's a gorgeous pic of Will, :wub: but the article itself is a bit disappointing in the Observer mag. I don't think I'll bother forking out nearly 2 quid for that.

Thanks for bringing the article over chrysalis, it's a gorgeous pic of Will, :wub: but the article itself is a bit disappointing in the Observer mag. I don't think I'll bother forking out nearly 2 quid for that.

 

I've just printed it off & the nice pic. :) I'll save my money for more informative articles about the album.

 

Thanks for bringing it over Chrysalis

I did fork out £1.60 for it - well my fella did. A present for me. :lol:

Metro :lol:

 

Will Young struck by lightning

Monday, August 11, 2008 Will Young has revealed that he was struck by lightning for his new video.

 

The star, who is back with his new single Changes, after a two hiatus admitted that making the video was his most difficult to date.

 

"This was probably the hardest video I've ever done.

 

"I ran up and down country lanes, was struck by lightening, set on fire and nearly drowned. It's amazing what you'll do for music!" He told Heat magazine.

 

The video tells the story of a small-town guy who wants to change his boring life and symbolically burns all of his possessions.

 

The Pop Idol winner who shot to fame after famously singing Relight My Fire in the 2002 revealed: "It was an extremely long day.

 

"I was forced to drink foul-smelling soup, dance in a hay-filled barn with a wind machine, and was tortured lying in cold water with my head on rocks."

:lol: Just posted this in the Video thread.