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I'm Nearly Famous is the album which marked Cliff Richard's return from the commercial and, in many ways, creative void which had consumed him since the end of the 1960s. Recorded with former Shadow Brian Bennett in the production chair and boasting the most consistently excellent clutch of songs and performances Richard had mustered in over a decade, the album was previewed by the lovely "Miss You Night," opened with the neo-disco "I Can't Ask for Anything More," and peaked with "Devil Woman," a rocker which became his first ever U.S. Top Ten hit. But they were simply the best-known standouts. "It's No Use Pretending" was an anthemic ballad with more than a hint of Elton John around its execution -- quite coincidentally, it was John's Rocket label which oversaw the album's American release. From the same writing team of Michael Allison and Peter Sill, the riff sodden rocking title track, too, has ghosts of John around it -- think "Crocodile Rock" meets "Bennie & the Jets." The tide flows both ways, however. Of course the two artists sound alike, but there was a time, when John was first breaking through, when a lot of people thought he sounded like Richard. Chicken? Meet the egg. There are a couple of less than stellar moments -- "Lovers" is basic big ballad by numbers, "Junior Cowboy" is the kind of ersatz country rocker which Richard had done much better in the past. What's important, however, is that once these would have been the highlights of a new Richard album; either that, or indistinguishable from all the other ballads and country rockers on board. This time around, they were simply a lull before the next masterpiece rolled out. I'm Nearly Famous rates, alongside David Cassidy's The Higher They Climb, among the most surprising albums of the mid-1970s, a record which was made in the face of both critical hostility and public indifference, yet managed to completely redefine its creator in the eyes of both. Cassidy, of course, never followed up his renaissance. Richard, on the other hand, hasn't looked back since.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
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Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Tony Clark, Engineer, Recorder - John Perry, Vocals - Kenneth Gold, Writer - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards - Michael Denne, Writer
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Tony Clark, Engineer, Recorder - John Perry, Vocals - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards - Peter Sills, Writer - Michael Allison, Writer
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Tony Clark, Engineer, Recorder - John Perry, Vocals - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards - Peter Sills, Writer - Michael Allison, Writer
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer, Produced by - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Richard Hewson, Strings - Tony Clark, Engineer, Recorder, RecordingEngineer - Mickey Newbury, Writer - John Perry, Vocals - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Tony Clark, Engineer, Recorder - John Perry, Vocals - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards - Peter Sills, Writer - Michael Allison, Writer
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer, Produced by - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Richard Hewson, Strings - Tony Clark, Engineer, Recorder, RecordingEngineer - John Perry, Vocals - Dave Townsend, Writer - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar, Writer - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Tony Clark, Engineer, Recorder - John Perry, Vocals - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar, Writer - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer - Christine Holmes, Writer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Tony Clark, Engineer, Recorder - John Perry, Vocals - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Richard Hewson, Strings - Tony Clark, Engineer, Recorder - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards - John Dawson Read, Writer
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Tony Clark, Engineer, Recorder - John Perry, Vocals - Kenneth Gold, Writer - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards - Michael Denne, Writer
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
David Pomeranz, Writer - Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Richard Hewson, Strings - Tony Clark, Engineer, Recorder - John Perry, Vocals - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Tony Clark, Engineer, Recorder - John Perry, Vocals - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards - Peter Sills, Writer - Michael Allison, Writer
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Tim Moore, Writer - Bruce Welch, Producer - John Farrar, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Hank Marvin, Producer - Richard Hewson, Strings - John Perry, Vocals - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer - John Farrar, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Hank Marvin, Producer - Richard Hewson, Strings - John Perry, Vocals - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Troy Seals, Writer - Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Trevor Spencer, Drums - Bruce Welch, Producer - Denny Rice, Writer - John Farrar, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Hank Marvin, Producer - Roger Quested, Engineer, Recorder - Dave Macrae, Piano
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Writer, Bass - Trevor Spencer, Writer - Bruce Welch, Producer - John Farrar, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Hank Marvin, Producer - John Perry, Vocals - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Bass - Bruce Welch, Producer - John Farrar, Producer, Writer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Hank Marvin, Producer, Writer - John Perry, Vocals - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Terry Britten, Guitar - Alan Tarney, Writer, Bass - Trevor Spencer, Writer - Bruce Welch, Producer - John Farrar, Producer - Keith Bessey, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Cliff Richard, Vocals, MainArtist - Hank Marvin, Producer - John Perry, Vocals - Tony Rivers, Vocals - A Harding, Vocals - Clem Cattini, Drums - Graham Todd, Keyboards
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Presentación del Álbum
I'm Nearly Famous is the album which marked Cliff Richard's return from the commercial and, in many ways, creative void which had consumed him since the end of the 1960s. Recorded with former Shadow Brian Bennett in the production chair and boasting the most consistently excellent clutch of songs and performances Richard had mustered in over a decade, the album was previewed by the lovely "Miss You Night," opened with the neo-disco "I Can't Ask for Anything More," and peaked with "Devil Woman," a rocker which became his first ever U.S. Top Ten hit. But they were simply the best-known standouts. "It's No Use Pretending" was an anthemic ballad with more than a hint of Elton John around its execution -- quite coincidentally, it was John's Rocket label which oversaw the album's American release. From the same writing team of Michael Allison and Peter Sill, the riff sodden rocking title track, too, has ghosts of John around it -- think "Crocodile Rock" meets "Bennie & the Jets." The tide flows both ways, however. Of course the two artists sound alike, but there was a time, when John was first breaking through, when a lot of people thought he sounded like Richard. Chicken? Meet the egg. There are a couple of less than stellar moments -- "Lovers" is basic big ballad by numbers, "Junior Cowboy" is the kind of ersatz country rocker which Richard had done much better in the past. What's important, however, is that once these would have been the highlights of a new Richard album; either that, or indistinguishable from all the other ballads and country rockers on board. This time around, they were simply a lull before the next masterpiece rolled out. I'm Nearly Famous rates, alongside David Cassidy's The Higher They Climb, among the most surprising albums of the mid-1970s, a record which was made in the face of both critical hostility and public indifference, yet managed to completely redefine its creator in the eyes of both. Cassidy, of course, never followed up his renaissance. Richard, on the other hand, hasn't looked back since.
© Dave Thompson /TiVo
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- 1 disco(s) - 18 pista(s)
- Duración total: 00:58:55
- Artistas principales: Cliff Richard
- Sello: Parlophone UK
- Género Pop/Rock Rock
© 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2001 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
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