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The Beautiful South è un gruppo pop an inglese pop group formed at the end of the 1980s with remaining members of the Hull group The Housemartins. The band was put together by lead singers Paul Heaton and Dave Hemingway. They were joined by Sean Welch (Bass), Dave Stead (Drums) and Dave Rotheray (Guitar). Rotheray also co-writes the songs with Heaton.
Biografia[modifica | modifica wikitesto]
In The Beautiful South, Heaton remained lead singer but was joined by Hemingway and female singer Briana Corrigan to create a trio of lead vocalists. This set-up helped to characterize the bittersweet kitchen sink dramas played out in Heaton's often barbed songs.
The band's music might sound like bubbly, catchy, lightweight pop but Heaton's sour, savage and amusing worldview on everything and anything (alcoholism, religion, sex, politics and, mostly, the down side of relationships) is always lurking beneath the surface of the quirky melodies. The tastes and smells of the local pub are never far away either, with the band gaining a reputation for boozing.
Il primo album del gruppk fu Welcome to the Beautiful South (1989), contenente i successi "Song For Whoever" e "You Keep It All In." The release of 1990's Choke album saw the band claim its only Number 1 hit to date, "A Little Time". 0898 Beautiful South followed in 1992, with hits including "Old Red Eyes Is Back".
In 1994, after Corrigan quit the band when she saw Paul's lyrics for the forthcoming album "Miaow", St Helens supermarket shelf-stacker Jacqui Abbott was brought on board to fill in. Heaton had heard her sing at an after show party in St Helens and remembered her vocal talents.
Jacqui's first album with the band was Miaow in 1994. Hits included "Good as Gold (Stupid as Mud)" and a cover of Fred Neil's "Everybody's Talkin'," previously popularized by Harry Nilsson. The end of that year saw the release of Carry on up the Charts, a "best of" compilation consisting of the singles to date plus new track "One Last Love Song". The album was massively successful and it is said that 1 in 7 homes in the UK owns a copy.
Blue Is the Colour (1996), Quench (1998) e Painting It Red (2000) followed with varying success. Anche Jacqui abbandonò il gruppo nel 2000. After a second Greatest Hits album Solid Bronze in 2001, they recorded Gaze in 2003 with yet another female vocalist, Alison Wheeler. Wheeler was still in place for 2004's Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs (An album of unusually arranged cover versions including "Livin' Thing", "You're The One That I Want", "Don't Fear The Reaper" and "I'm Stone In Love With You").
The latest album Superbi was released on May 15 2006. Superbi was recorded at Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios, a farm in Bakewell and at producer Ian Stanley’s place in Enniskerry, County Wicklow. It was mixed by Bill Price (Sex Pistols, Clash, Guns N' Roses). Paul Heaton’s hand is recognisable in quirky song titles such as 'The Rose of My Cologne', 'The Cat Loves The Mouse' and 'Never Lost A Chicken To A Fox'. First single 'Manchester' started off as a poem - "If rain makes Britain great, then Manchester is greater" – 'a sodden tribute' to the city in which he now lives, says Heaton. The tracks cover love and loss and all that happens in-between …"So many pop songs are written about 15-20 year olds. We've never really targeted them, or newly weds. We write about people who've lived together most of their lives."
Discography[modifica | modifica wikitesto]
Albums[modifica | modifica wikitesto]
- Welcome to the Beautiful South (1989) UK No.2
- Choke (1990) UK No.2
- 0898 Beautiful South (1992) UK No.4
- Miaow (1994) UK No.6
- Carry on up the Charts (1994) UK No.1
- Blue Is the Colour (1996) UK No.1
- Quench (1998) UK No.1
- Painting It Red (2000) UK No.2
- Solid Bronze (2001) UK No.10
- Gaze (2003) UK No.14
- Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs (2004) UK No. 11
- Gold (2006)
- Superbi (2006) UK No. 6
Singles[modifica | modifica wikitesto]
| Year | Song | UK | US Alt. |
Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | "Song For Whoever" | 2 | - | Welcome to the Beautiful South |
| 1989 | "You Keep It All In" | 8 | 19 | Welcome to the Beautiful South |
| 1989 | "I'll Sail This Ship Alone" | 31 | - | Welcome to the Beautiful South |
| 1990 | "A Little Time" | 1 | - | Choke |
| 1990 | "My Book" | 43 | - | Choke |
| 1991 | "Let Love Speak Up Itself" | 51 | - | Choke |
| 1992 | "Old Red Eyes Is Back" | 22 | - | 0898 Beautiful South |
| 1992 | "We Are Each Other" | 30 | 10 | 0898 Beautiful South |
| 1992 | "Bell Bottomed Tear" | 16 | - | 0898 Beautiful South |
| 1992 | "36D" | 46 | - | 0898 Beautiful South |
| 1994 | "Good As Gold (Stupid As Mud)" | 23 | - | Miaow |
| 1994 | "Everybody's Talkin'" | 12 | - | Miaow |
| 1994 | "Prettiest Eyes" | 37 | - | Miaow |
| 1994 | "One Last Love Song" | 14 | - | Carry on up the Charts |
| 1995 | "Pretenders to the Throne" | 18 | - | (released later on Solid Bronze) |
| 1996 | "Rotterdam" | 5 | - | Blue Is the Colour |
| 1996 | "Don't Marry Her" | 8 | - | Blue Is the Colour |
| 1997 | "Blackbird on the Wire" | 23 | - | Blue Is the Colour |
| 1997 | "Liars' Bar" | 43 | - | Blue Is the Colour |
| 1998 | "Perfect 10" | 2 | - | Quench |
| 1998 | "Dumb" | 16 | - | Quench |
| 1999 | "How Long's a Tear Take to Dry?" | 12 | - | Quench |
| 1999 | "The Table" | 47 | - | Quench |
| 2000 | "Closer than Most" | 47 | - | Painting It Red |
| 2001 | "The River/Just Checkin'" | 59 | - | Painting It Red |
| 2001 | "The Root of All Evil" | 50 | - | Solid Bronze |
| 2003 | "Just a Few Things That I Ain't" | 30 | - | Gaze |
| 2003 | "Let Go with the Flow" | 47 | - | Gaze |
| 2004 | "Livin' Thing" | 24 | - | Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs |
| 2004 | "This Old Skin" | 43 | - | Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs |
| 2005 | "This Will Be Our Year" | 36 | - | Golddiggas, Headnodders and Pholk Songs |
| 2006 | "Manchester" | 41 | - | Superbi |
| 2006 | "The Rose of My Cologne" | 99 | - | Superbi |
Side projects and solo releases[modifica | modifica wikitesto]
Paul Heaton has released an album called Fat Chance under the name Biscuit Boy (aka Crackerman) whilst Dave Rotheray has released two albums with Homespun.
Collegamenti esterni[modifica | modifica wikitesto]
Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su Rossa1/lavoriBS- The Beautiful South - Official site
- Delores and the Turtle - Fan site
- The Beautiful South at the Hidden Jukebox - Bilingual fan site (English and German)
- BBC H2G2 - The Beautiful South
- The Suitable Mouth - a fan site for The Beautiful South
{{rock}} [[Categoria:Gruppi musicali britannici|Housemartins, The]] [[Categoria:Gruppi musicali alternative rock]]