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Black - Wonderful Life
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Side A
1. "Wonderful Life" 4:46
2. "Everything's Coming Up Roses" 4:04
3. "Sometimes for the Asking" 4:09
4. "Finder" 4:12
5. "Paradise" 4:51
Side B
6. "I'm Not Afraid" 5:00
7. "I Just Grew Tired" 4:15
8. "Blue" 3:38
9. "Just Making Memories" 4:26
10. "Sweetest Smile" 5:19
Total length: 44:40
CD Bonus tracks
11. "Ravel in the Rain" 3:47
12. "Leave Yourself Alone" 4:32
13. "Sixteens" 3:56
14. "It's Not You Lady Jane" 3:25
15. "Hardly Star-Crossed Lovers" 2:51
Total length: 63:11
Black Band Members / Musicians
Colin Vearncombe – vocals
Roy Corkill – fretless bass
Jimmy Hughes – drums
Martin Green – saxophone
Dave "Dix" Dickie – keyboards, programming
The Creamy Whirls (Tina Labrinski, Sara Lamarra) – backing vocals
Jimmy Sangster – electric bass
Doreen Edwards – additional backing vocals
The Sidwell Brothers – brass section
Recorded at Powerplant Studios (London), Square One Studio (Bury)
Engineered by Stephen Boyce-Buckley, and Pink Studio (Liverpool)
Wonderful Life is the debut album by English singer Black (the stage name of Colin Vearncombe). Released in 1987, it peaked at #3 on the UK Albums Chart in September of that year.
Three of the songs were co-written with Vearncombe's friend and musical collaborator, keyboardist Dave "Dix" Dickie.
Colin Vearncombe (26 May 1962 – 26 January 2016), known by his stage name Black, was an English singer-songwriter. He emerged from the punk rock music scene and achieved mainstream pop success in the late 1980s, most notably with the 1986 single "Wonderful Life", which was an international hit the next year.
William Ruhlmann of AllMusic described Vearncombe as a "smoky-voiced singer/songwriter, whose sophisticated jazz-pop songs and dramatic vocal delivery place him somewhere between Bryan Ferry and Morrissey". Michael Hann of The Guardian described his voice as a "slightly frayed baritone".
On 10 January 2016, Vearncombe was involved in a road traffic collision, near Cork Airport in Ireland, and placed in a medically-induced coma after sustaining serious head injuries. He died from his injuries at the intensive care unit of Cork University Hospital on 26 January 2016, at the age of 53. Vearncombe left a widow, Swedish opera singer Camilla Griehsel, and three children. His remains were cremated on 4 February 2016.
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