The Weakness in Me: The Selected Lyrics of Joan Armatrading

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Joan Armatrading". Guitar Player. 38 (12). December 2004. Archived from the original on 21 March 2018.

The song can be classified as soulful pop or adult contemporary. 7. What instruments are used in The Weakness In Me? Armatrading performed as a cameo vocalist for the song "Don't Lose Your Head" on the 1986 Queen album A Kind of Magic. A younger brother, Tony Armatrading, was a stage, film, and television actor who lived in Los Angeles. He died of cancer on 10 May 2021, at the age of 59. [67] [68]Great acts lined up for the Acoustic Festival of Britain". Safeconcerts. 9 April 2012 . Retrieved 5 October 2012. Christgau, Robert (1990). "A". Christgau's Record Guide: The '80s. Pantheon Books. ISBN 0-679-73015-X . Retrieved 16 August 2020– via robertchristgau.com. Armatrading is reluctant to discuss her personal life in interviews. In a 2003 interview with David Thomas of The Daily Telegraph, she said: [4] Armatrading was born in Basseterre, Saint Kitts, and Nevis, and raised in Birmingham, England. 12. What is Joan Armatrading’s musical style? The world doesn’t need to know what colour my bedroom walls are,” she famously told one reporter. But people do. Her songs are almost exclusively about matters of the heart, lovers and love. You would figure out something personal from all that.

Gold Badge Awards in pictures". M Magazine. 26 October 2011. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018 . Retrieved 20 January 2018. / Armatrading was a guest at the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla in 2023. [69] Collaborations [ edit ]The main appeal of Armatrading, besides her songs’ blend of jazz and pop, is her voice. Attempts to describe it can be measured by the degree to which they avoid failure. Joan Armatrading’s voice has been described as deep, husky, lyrical, flexible, throaty, genuine, gripping, no-nonsense, dusky, Odetta-like, headstrong, deceptively angsty, natural and artless, satisfyingly unpredictable. [1] Armatrading presented a five-part series on BBC Radio 4 called Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists which was broadcast in July 2009, in which she talked to guitarists about their music and their technique. [44] She followed this up with another five-part series called Joan Armatrading: More Guitar Favourites, which was broadcast in November and December 2011. [45]

In 1986, actress and singer Karla DeVito covered the song for her second album Wake 'Em Up in Tokyo. The celebrities attending the King's Coronation and their relation to the Royal Family". MyLondon. 6 May 2023 . Retrieved 19 July 2023.Armatrading's song "In These Times" from her 2003 album Lovers Speak appeared on the compilation album Songs for Tibet: The Art of Peace which was released in 2008 [70] by The Art of Peace Foundation. [71] Honours [ edit ] Armatrading performing at the National Stadium, Dublin, Ireland, in the early 1980s In September 2019 Armatrading was the subject of the one-hour documentary Me Myself I, aired on BBC Four, in which she tells her life story, both as a songwriter and as a performer, with key performances from many of the musicians she has influenced. [48]