Gallagher & Lyle Best Of

Gallagher & Lyle Best Of Artist: Gallagher & Lyle
Label: Polygram Int'l
Category: Music


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


UPC: 731455183023
EAN: 0731455183023
ASIN: B00002MHW3


Release Date: 1998-09-04

Gallagher & Lyle Best Of


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Tracks:

  1. Heart On My Sleeve
  2. I Wanna Stay With You
  3. Love On The Airwaves
  4. The Runaway
  5. Breakaway
  6. Heartbreaker
  7. All Grown Up
  8. I'm Amazed
  9. Country Morning
  10. Never Give Up On Love
  11. Hurts To Learn
  12. We
  13. Sittin' Down Music
  14. Every Little Teardrop
  15. Showdown
  16. You're The One
  17. Song And Dance Man
  18. I Believe In You
  19. Willie
  20. Mhairu

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Album Description

20 of the greatest recordings by Benny Gallagher & Graham Lyle, the '70s pop duo that started out as staff songwritersfor the Beatles' Apple label who penned the hit 'And When I Die', the Mary Hopkin hit 'International' & Art Garfunkel's top 40 'Break Away'. Includes their original version of 'Breakaway', plus their U.S. chart hits 'I Wanna Stay With You' & 'Heart On My Sleeve', and more! 1995 Karussell International release.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Simple melodic pop with folk influences.......2005-03-07

Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle were more interested in songwriting than performing and it was as songwriters that they first made an impact. The first song of theirs that anybody recorded was Mr Heartbreak's here again. Dean Ford and the Gaylords (later to become the Marmalade) released it as a single but it flopped. Gallagher and Lyle continued to develop and Mary Hopkin recorded Sparrow

At about that time, Manfred Mann disbanded (later to re-emerge with a different line-up as Manfred Mann's Earth Band) and two of its members, Tom Mc Guinness and Hughie Flint, formed their own group, Mc Guinness Flint. Gallagher and Lyle were offered places in this new group, which they accept. They wrote and performed on two UK top five hits for the group (When I'm dead and gone, Malt and barley blues) but the pressures generated by the success became too great so the group disbanded.

Gallagher and Lyle decided to continue as a duo, working at their own pace. They recorded some fine albums before, in 1976, they released their strongest album, Breakaway. Two UK hits (I wanna stay with you, Heart on my sleeve) both peaked at number six, while the title track was a minor UK hit. Art Garfunkel covered Breakaway and had an American top forty hit with it.

Again, Gallagher and Lyle resisted the commercial pressure to exploit their success although they recorded further albums and had another minor UK hit, Every little teardrop. They continued as songwriters, not always together. Graham Lyle had a huge international hit when he co-wrote What's love got to do with it for Tina Turner.

This compilation contains the best of their music after Mc Guinness Flint disbanded. An earlier (out of print) compilation includes the two Mc Guinness Flint hits, which are omitted from this set. If you enjoy simple melodic pop music, give Gallagher and Lyle a listen.

5 out of 5 stars Simply superb !!!!!.......2003-07-11

Talent is a precious thing and when two great talents like Benny Gallagher and Graham Lyle get together then it produces only one thing - magnificent music. Trust me this is a superb example of musicianship and deserves to be recognised as such. Please listen and appreciate, thanks guys !!!!!

3 out of 5 stars Maybe my taste has changed.......2003-06-08

As a teenager G&L were one of my favourites, so I bought this to compensate for losing their LPs in a house move many years ago. While some of the tracks are still good (Runaway, Heart on my sleeve, Breakaway) I seem to remember a lot of material that was better than the stuff that has made it onto this 'Best of'.

4 out of 5 stars Correction.......2001-03-02

Correction to the album info above--G & L didn't write "And When I Die", Laura Nyro did. They did write "When I'm Dead and Gone", a jaunty minor hit for their previous group, McGuiness Flint. (FYI: Graham Lyle also co-wrote, among other things, "What's love got to do with it" for Tina Turner, for which I believe he won a Grammy.)

4 out of 5 stars

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