The Weakness in Me: The Selected Lyrics of Joan Armatrading

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The CD, ‘Into The Blues’, remained at No 1 for 12 consecutive weeks. Joan toured the world in support of it and also released a deluxe edition of CD with DVD which showed her at her very best, live, on stage, performing music from across her career. Armatrading performed as a cameo vocalist for the song "Don't Lose Your Head" on the 1986 Queen album A Kind of Magic. Christgau, Robert (1990). "A". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X . Retrieved 16 August 2020– via robertchristgau.com.

a b Smithies, Gran (21 September 2014). "Joan Armatrading's enduring charm". Stuff . Retrieved 9 December 2020. Of course! And I appreciate my friends, the Johnsons, who turned me on to your music when I was younger. For step-free access from the Queen Elizabeth Hall Slip Road off Belvedere Road to the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium seating (excluding rows A to C) and wheelchair spaces in the Rear Stalls, plus Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer and the Purcell Room, please use the Queen Elizabeth Hall main entrance. In 2014/2015 Joan undertook her last massive world tour - it covered an incredible 235 dates with most selling out as soon as they went on sale. Joan made it clear, however, she was not leaving the road for good – “I’ll never retire” – just withdrawing from year long excursions. Festival programme book: Clapp, Lori, ed. (1996), Edmonton Folk Music Festival Programme Book, vol.17, Alberta, Canada: Edmonton Folk Music Festival Society, p.14, [Peel 10572.17 – via Peel Library, University of Alberta]In 2012 she launched a ‘Local Talent’ initiative which saw her personally interview and choose 56 young artists for support slots on her nationwide dates. A double album of that talent was later released with several of the young musicians going on to achieve significant solo success. Realising things aren’t all about you is good. When you’re young, everything is about you. You never think of life as finite. You think how things are now is how they’ll be forever. Growing up is about realising that the world exists beyond how you see and live in it. Joan Armatrading has come a long way since her birth in the West Indies and her upbringing in Birmingham.

Walsh, John (27 July 2009). "Guitar hero – the radio tour". The Independent. Archived from the original on 9 June 2022 . Retrieved 1 January 2013. In 2003, no longer attached to a major label, she released the album Lovers Speak. Though it was her first album in eight years, it met with little commercial success. In 2004, she released a live album, Live: All the Way from America, which was a recording of a concert from her Lovers Speak tour. Singer/songwriter Joan Armatrading on Guildford life, 'Love and Affection' and her music career". Surrey Life. 20 September 2012 . Retrieved 7 June 2019.

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Talk to a member of staff at the auditorium entrance if you have a disability that means you can’t queue, or you need extra time to take your seat. They can arrange priority entry for you as soon as the doors open. To reach this entrance, enter the Royal Festival Hall via the Southbank Centre Square Doors. Take the JCB Glass Lift to Level 2 and exit to the Riverside Terrace. Turn right to find the Queen Elizabeth Hall main entrance. Joan Armatrading: The Concert (1988)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014 . Retrieved 16 November 2014.

The celebrities attending the King's Coronation and their relation to the Royal Family". MyLondon. 6 May 2023 . Retrieved 19 July 2023.Audiences have long been entranced by Tchaikovsky’s ability to generate a rollercoaster of emotional depths and heights, and nowhere is this more evident than in his Fifth Symphony. Other educational laurels include an Honorary Fellowship of the John Moores University of Liverpool (2000) and an Honorary Fellowship of Northampton University (2003). She has also received a Doctorate in Music from the University of Birmingham (2002), an Honorary degree from Aston University (2006), an Honorary Degree from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (2008) and an Honorary Degree from the University of the West Indies (2013). Booth, Al (26 April 2016). "About the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2016 at Royal Albert Hall". BBC Blogs . Retrieved 28 April 2016. In 1989, she was the guest of Sue Lawley on the BBC Radio 4 radio programme Desert Island Discs where her favourite choice was Van Morrison's " Madame George". [24] Armatrading's full list included Ella Fitzgerald and Gustav Mahler. [a] Her luxury item was a guitar, while her castaway's book was Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie. Dargue, William. "Brookfields". History of Birmingham Places & Placenames A to Y . Retrieved 12 January 2013.

Three times Grammy nominated, two times Brit nominated, winner of a coveted Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection, and winner of the BASCA Gold Badge Award in 2012, it is a recognition that continues to this day. 2012 saw Joan receive the British Folk Festival Award, 2016 Radio 2’s Folk Award for Lifetime Achievement and, the same year, the MMF’s Artist’s Artist Award. The standout achievements are many.

Not Too Far Away’ is a great testament to a woman who has gone where no British female artist has gone before and who is not afraid to tell it how she sees it. As of 2012, [update] Armatrading lived in Surrey, where she owns Bumpkin Studios, a purpose-built recording facility in the grounds of her home where she has recorded most of her albums since Sleight of Hand. [65] [66] Her 2007 album Into the Blues debuted at No. 1 on the US Billboard Blues Chart, making Armatrading the first UK female artist to earn that distinction. Into the Blues, which Armatrading called "the CD I've been promising myself to write for a long time", was nominated for a Grammy Award, also making her the first female UK artist to be nominated in the Grammy Blues category. [ citation needed] In April 2016, she was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2016 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards in recognition of her "influence on a generation of singer-songwriters [as] one of the outstanding voices in British music since the 1970s". [78] [79] Year There are certain lines that if you have any interest in the alchemy of music and the sheer magic of its collective verse, it’s impossible not to shiver when Joan Armatrading sang the sublime lines – I am not in love/ but I’m open to persuasion from Love and Affection it went way beyond the trivial boundaries of most contemporary music. Even now to hear it coming from a passing car or as you stride through a modern and faceless shopping centre – it has the ability to stop you dead, a beautiful reminder that the music of the universe will always usurp the latest garish offerings stood idle in a Primark window.