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"Babylon" is a song by British singer-songwriter David Gray. Originally released on 12 July 1999 as the second single from his fourth album, White Ladder (1998), it was re-released as the album's fourth single on 19 June 2000. Described as Gray's signature song, [1] [2] "Babylon" is "about a love that is lost and found again". [3]
White Ladder is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter David Gray. It was first released in November 1998 through Gray's own record label, IHT Records , but failed to chart. On 24 April 2000, the album was re-released by Dave Matthews ' label ATO Records and debuted at number 69 on the UK Albums Chart , before climbing to number ...
David Peter Gray (born 13 June 1968) [2] is a British singer-songwriter. Having released his debut album in 1993, he received worldwide attention with White Ladder five years later, particularly for the hit single " Babylon ".
For "Babylon", Johansen wrote the lyrics as a tribute to the New York Dolls' following from outside New York City: "[The song] is about people who live in Babylon, Long Island, New York, who go into the city every night dressed to kill. These people have to get home before sun-up, you know, like vampires that can't get caught by the sun."
A Thousand Miles Behind is an album by English singer-songwriter David Gray. Released in August 2007, it contains twelve live covers recorded between 2001 and 2007. [1] The album title comes from a line in Bob Dylan's song "One Too Many Mornings" (1964). The compilation is only available from Gray's official website or at Gray's live performances.
Babylon (David Gray song) Be Mine (David Gray song) Birds Without Wings (song) F. ... The Other Side (David Gray song) P. Please Forgive Me (David Gray song) S.
David Gray said in an interview that the inspiration of the song came from "nowhere." [1] Paul Hartnoll of Orbital was commissioned to remix the song.The remix was pressed as 10-inch and 12-inch promos and was featured as the "record of the week" on Pete Tong's Essential Selection, gaining massive airplay in Ibiza.
Gray recorded the album, his first set of new songs since 2005's Life in Slow Motion, in his own studio—The Church Studios—while unsigned to a record label. [11] The studio previously belonged to the Eurythmics, and when Gray invited Annie Lennox to guest-record the duet "Full Steam," she reprimanded him for not changing the carpets.