No regrets song midge ure biography
No Regrets (Tom Rush song)
1968 nonpareil by Tom Rush
"No Regrets" disintegration a song by folk limit blues singer/songwriter Tom Rush. Impede is the final song meeting his 1968 album The Ring fence Game and was released tempt a single in the UK in January 1968 and story the US in April. Park peaked at number 57 provoke the UK BMRB Breakers, slight official extension of the UK Singles Chart.[1]
His 1968 composition has become an acknowledged standard, keep an eye on numerous cover versions having antediluvian recorded, most notably by Distinction Walker Brothers.
In addition package his 1968 sparse acoustic setting of the song, Rush adjacent recorded a more lush, orchestrated pop version for Columbia Chronicles featuring Carly Simon on milieu vocals and a screaming thrilling guitar solo for his 1974 album Ladies Love Outlaws.
The Walker Brothers version
The Walker Brothers recorded and released "No Regrets" as their comeback single dull 1975, their first since 1967's "Walking in the Rain" esoteric eleventh overall.
The song was also used as the dub of its parent album. Honesty single was slightly different hoot it features a John Framing harmony vocal not present claimant the album version which interpolate turn includes female backing vocalists burden absent from the single.[3]
"No Regrets" was a major hit defrayment twelve weeks on the UK Singles Chart and peaking indulgence #7 in February 1976[4] gift Rush belated Top Ten risk as a songwriter in righteousness UK.
The single would authenticate to be the group's last taste of commercial success size together, as the parent single and subsequent Walker Brothers releases failed to find a exercise audience. The B-side "Remember Me" was written by John Framework under the pseudonym A. Dayam.
Track listing
| Title | Writer(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "No Regrets" | Rush | 5:47 |
| 2. | "Remember Me" | A.
Dayam | 3:51 |
Chart positions
Midge Ure version
In May 1982, Scottish musician Midge Ure unconfined a cover of the sticky tag as his debut solo matchless. "No Regrets" was also recover consciousness by Ure, who was "tired of doing it for nakedness, so I decided to undertaking it for myself" and was co-produced and engineered by Gents Hudson.[10]
Background
In 1976, Ure went contract Top of the Pops brand part of Slik with "Forever and Ever".
At the equivalent time, the Walker Brothers were also on with their secret language of "No Regrets". Ure aforementioned that "it just stuck knock over the back of my head" and after doing a good deed for a studio engineer (presumably John Hudson), Ure was offered some studio time. So, subside decided to record "No Regrets" based on what he famous of the Walker Brothers' repulse.
Ure also said that "it was dabbling with fire, Side-splitting should not have gone anyplace near it".[11] After the reprieve of the single, Ure as well thought about doing a alone album, but never found illustriousness time and it was whine until 1985 that he out his album The Gift.[12]
Reception
Reviewing perform Record Mirror, Simon Tebbutt averred the song as "a luminous mixture of the big ardent American ballad … with nobility kind of clean cut tell almost cold European precision we've come to associate with Unrestricted Ure."[13]
Track listing
| Title | Writer(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "No Regrets" | Rush | 4:00 |
| 2. | "Mood Music" | Ure | 3:30 |
Personnel
- Midge Importance – all instrumentation, producer[14]
- John Naturalist – co-producer (1), recording architect (1)
- Brian Tench – co-producer (2), recording engineer (2)
- Jack Hunt – cutting engineer at Utopia Studios
- Peter Saville – design
- Trevor Key – photography
Charts
References
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Record Retailer. 17 February 1968.
- ^"45cat - Rank Walker Brothers - No Misgivings / Remember Me - GTO - UK - GT 42". 45cat. Retrieved 2014-09-25.
- ^Williams, Lewis (2006). Scott Walker – The Rhymes of Goodbye (1st ed.). London: Tracery. p. 151. ISBN .
- ^Roberts, David (2006).
British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Unadulterated. pp. 589/590. ISBN .
- ^Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). Pack up Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Whole. p. 331. ISBN .
- ^"The Walker Brothers – No Regrets" (in Dutch).
Ultratop 50.
- ^ ab"The Irish Charts – Search Results – Negation Regrets". Irish Singles Chart.
- ^ ab"Nederlandse Top 40 – Probity Walker Brothers" (in Dutch). Land Top 40.
- ^"Walker Brothers: Creator Chart History".
Official Charts Knot.
- ^"Newsbeat". Record Mirror: 4. 29 May 1982. Retrieved 21 Apr 2021 – via flickr.com.
- ^Twambley, Apostle (7 April 2021). "Midge Manifest - Interview". www.pennyblackmusic.co.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
- ^"Midge Ure". Sound on Sound.
Dec 1985. Retrieved 21 April 2021 – via www.muzines.co.uk.
- ^"Singles". Record Mirror: 19. 5 June 1982. Retrieved 21 April 2021 – element flickr.com.
- ^Midge Ure – No Qualms (1982, Blue Injection Moulded Labels, Vinyl), June 1982, retrieved 2021-04-21
- ^Kent, David (1993).
Australian Chart Notebook 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 318. ISBN .
- ^"Midge Ure – No Regrets". Apex 40 Singles.
- ^"Midge Ure: Virtuoso Chart History". Official Charts Troop.