My Beauty

My Beauty
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
EAN: 5017556602164
ASIN: B00002R0SE


Release Date: 1999-09-21

My Beauty


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Tracks:

  1. The Greatest Love Of All
  2. Rag Doll
  3. Concrete And Clay
  4. Daydream Believer
  5. This Guy's In Love With You
  6. The Long And Winding Road
  7. It's Getting Better
  8. I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top
  9. Labelled With Love (I'll Stay With My Dreams)
  10. Reflections Of My Life
  11. You'll Never Walk Alone

Album Description

1999 comeback album/ debut full length for the Creation label from the leader of Dexy's Midnight Runners. A collection of covers, it includes his interpretations of 'The Long And Winding Road', 'The Greatest Love Of All', 'This Guy's In Love With You' and

Album Details

The Former Dexys Midnight Runners Frontman Returns to the Fray with this Album of an Interesting Array of Covers.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Batty & Brilliant.......2005-03-04

Kevin Rowland is an incredibly brave man. After years of drug abuse, poverty, and a career in the dustcan, "My Beauty" was supposed to have represented a triumphant return to the music business. Unfortunately, due to his sartorial choice of the moment it turned into a regrettable laughing-stock.

The record is a spirited selection of covers, songs which Rowland claims helped him through the dark days. It is art as therapy, which doesn't always amount to good (or easy) listening, especially when the therapy sounds to have only recently begun. Particularly disturbing and disruptive is Rowland's tendency to change the lyrics to suit his 'healing' view of the world.

My Beauty allegedly sold less than 500 copies.



1 out of 5 stars So this is what young soul rebels do when they become old.......2004-03-28

Kevin Rowland had always been driven with passionate zeal to preach the worth of good music.His was to be a new soul music,more heartfelt and intense than anything heard before.Here is the fruit of many years searching for "young soul rebels". It amounts to wearing a dress and a collection of dodgy versions of some good, some bloody awful Kareoke standards.This bloke made some classic tunes in his time but he took himself so seriously he became borderline insane.He loved the sound of his own voice but most people who liked Dexys songs did so despite, not because of his horrible voice.Having said that it did enough to communicate some very worthy pieces of music but this hasnt got any of those.This is an amusing record as it shows how comically incomprehensible the results of endevour can be when you are as pretentious as Kevin Rowland.

4 out of 5 stars Painfully spectacular.......2004-01-11

I just love Kevin Rowland. He took some very crappy/sappy/goofy songs and made them interesting and put a lot of feeling into them. It slightly disturbs me that he would listen to most of the songs on this CD, much less find them life altering, but this proves that I would love anything he sings.

5 out of 5 stars Return of the Young Soul Rebel.......2002-04-09

Apparantly this album sold less then 500 copies..I am at a loss to understand why, unless the public are as homophobic as the newspapers. I bought this album as a 16 year old troubled teen and it has honestly helped me through many a crisis. 'The Greatest Love Of All' allowed me to accept myself as an outsider..the coda of 'Concrete And Clay' which informs us 'You are everything to me, I love you' brought a glow to my heart, while on 'I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top', Kevin appeared to share the same world weariness as my own. Then last October my father died and Kevin's version of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' (one of my father's favourites) was there to accompany my sorrow and grief. If the great man never makes another record then he went out on a masterpiece of emotion and melancholy in equal measures and I'm sure I won't be the only one to thank him for that.

5 out of 5 stars

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  9. Outside In ~ Dillon Fence
  10. Bridge ~ Shaye

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