Falling into You

Celine Dion

Released on 2/28/96 by Columbia
Main artists: Céline Dion
Genre: Pop

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One of the attractions of Céline Dion's sixteenth album (her fourth in English) is that it presents the missing link between the Quebecoise star and David Bowie's Space Oddity. That is, the conductor and arranger Paul Buckmaster, who worked for Bowie, but also for Elton John until 1978. For Céline, he put his signature on the song that gave the album its title: with its elegant strings, its nonchalant Latin rhythm and its torrid saxophone solo, Falling Into You lends a certain seductive suavity to the singer's image. As the cover of this release attests, Céline Dion was then a young woman (28 years old in 1996) who was no longer afraid to please: a natural "girl next door" (You make me feel like a natural woman), whose aura is enveloped by a positive light (Your light).

In addition to Buckmaster, we will meet Jean-Jacques Goldman, another prominent behind-the-scenes man (If That's What It Takes, I Love You...). The Dion / Goldman duo had just released the world's best-selling francophone record (D'eux, 1995). Anecdotally, a third star of the studios could have been one of the pillars of Falling Into You, as Phil Spector had started to produce it, before his mood swings led René Angélil (manager and husband of Céline) to put a stop to the collaboration. Only the song River Deep, Mountain High, written by Spector, is a remnant of this fleeting encounter. Finally, a year before Titanic and the global hit My Heart Will Go On, Céline Dion is here doing her classes in the cinema with Because You Loved Me, a piece written by the "queen of the ballad" Diane Warren, for the feature film Up Close & Personal. The film depicted the meteoric rise of a TV journalist, played by Michelle Pfeiffer. It's hard not to draw a parallel with Céline Dion's in the 1990s (Falling Into You was one of the best-selling albums in history with 32 million copies sold worldwide). ©Nicolas Magenham / Qobuz

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Tim Pierce, Guitar - Glen Burtnick, Background Vocal - Kasim Sulton, Background Vocal - Jeff Bova, Arranger, Keyboards, Programmer - Steve Buslowe, Bass - Eric Troyer, Background Vocal - Rory Dodd, Background Vocal - KENNY ARONOFF, Drums - Todd Rundgren, Background Vocal - Jim Steinman, Composer, Lyricist, Producer, Arranger - Jimmy Bralower, Arranger, Drums, Percussion - TONY PHILLIPS, Mixing Engineer - Celine Dion, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - ROY BITTAN, Arranger, Piano, Co-Producer - Greg Pinto, Assistant Engineer - Steven Rinkoff, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer - Vito Luprano, Executive Producer - John Doelp, Executive Producer - Don Ketteler, Coordinator - Charles Vasoll, Assistant Engineer