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Released in 1991, it was Young's first "greatest hits" collection, compiling tracks from the past decade. The album entered the UK Albums Chart at number one (Young's third and final UK number one album to date) and has been certified Triple Platinum by the British Phonographic Industry for UK sales in excess of 900,000 copies.
Paul Antony Young [4] [5] (born 17 January 1956) [6] is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Formerly the frontman of the short-lived bands Kat Kool & the Kool Cats, Streetband and Q-Tips , he became a teen idol with his solo success in the 1980s.
From 1983 to 1993, all of Young's studio albums were released during a contract he had with Columbia Records, and since 1994, Young has released albums through Vision, East West and SonyBMG Records. Four of Young's albums, No Parlez (1983), The Secret of Association (1985), Between Two Fires (1986), and Other Voices (1990) feature Welsh bassist ...
The track was most prominently covered in 1990 by Paul Young, from his album Other Voices.It became a top 10 hit in the U.S. (#8) and Canada (#4). It was also a major adult contemporary hit, reaching number one on both the US and Canadian [11] Adult Contemporary charts.
Paul Young is the seventh solo studio album by English singer Paul Young, released in May 1997 on East West Records. This was Young's last album made up of original material, until his 2023 album, Behind the Lens . [ 1 ]
It reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 two weeks later, and was one of two top 10 hits Young had on the U.S. pop singles chart (the second being his 1990 cover of "Oh Girl" by the Chi-Lites). "Every Time You Go Away" also topped the U.S. adult contemporary chart for two weeks. The song won British Video of the Year at the 1986 Brit Awards. [5]
Streetband failed to have any more success and disbanded a year later in 1979. Several of the members, including Young, then formed Q-Tips. [8]In 1994, the single was re-released after it was used in an advert for Gale's Pure Honey and was credited as 'Streetband featuring Paul Young'.
The band also hit the UK Top 40 with "Strange Little Girl", "My Oh My" and "I'm in Love Again", [5] and had two US Billboard Hot 100 hits with "Run Home Girl" and "La-Di-Da". [6] Young enjoyed further chart success sharing lead vocal duties with Paul Carrack in Mike + The Mechanics, the pop-rock band formed in 1985 by Genesis guitarist Mike ...