As No Parlez took off, Paul soon found himself as one of the major breakthrough solo artists of the decade, and became the ‘new boy’ when he took part in Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? in November 1984. “I’d only got one album under my belt, and suddenly, I was in there with all these stars I’d seen on TV, but they probably didn’t know me that well.” I must have played this album a LOT since I know every song and have both a US and this UK pressing of it (which was kept unplayed).

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Paul Antony Young [4] [5] (born 17 January 1956) [6] is an English musician, singer and songwriter. Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute: Latest News, Videos, Photos. Times of India. Retrieved 28 January 2012 During this period Paul appeared in The Nelson Mandela Tribute Concert and sang a song by Crowded House – ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’ – which his fans pushed him to record later for his 1991 Greatest Hits album.

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Booth, Cathy (8 June 1984). "The second British invasion: How It Really Happened". The Prescott Courier. United Press International . Retrieved 25 August 2014. Also, Paul’s hobby of cooking turned into more of a career, and after appearing in high profile TV shows such as Celebrity Masterchef and Hell’s Kitchen, and six months as guest chef at a famous local restaurant, Paul released a cookbook, “On My Travels” in the summer of 2012. Paul Young has been at the top of his game for four decades. And now, finally, he’s ready to tell his story. Take A Piece Of Me With You casts a light on the No Parlez star. This luxury edition is signed, boxed, numbered and limited to 2,500 copies. It features an exclusive CD. Explaining the album’s song choices, Paul says he “really wanted to do a Tom Waits song and we were all getting into him, so we decided on Soldier’s Things. I Was In Chains was something that me, the keyboard player and producer were keen on doing. I really like albums where you’ve got pop on it, but not pop from start to finish where the album’s quite shallow with no depth to it.It was after the release of Between Two Fires when Paul decided to take a break from the dizzying whirr of an international pop career and a fairly solid itinerary that had barely seen him enjoy a day off since 1982. He’d moved out to Los Angeles and married his longtime girlfriend, model Stacey Smith, in November 1987. Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)" [Live Version] – 5:59 (B-side from "Love of the Common People" 12inch)

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Top Selling Albums of 1984 — The Official New Zealand Music Chart". Recorded Music New Zealand . Retrieved 2 February 2022. Paul Young's Los Pacaminos riding into town" [ permanent dead link], Iomtoday.co.im; retrieved 28 January 2012.Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1sted.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. p.263. ISBN 978-951-1-21053-5. Paul Young with Pino Palladino: I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down (1984). Retrieved 24 January 2012 Music Director, Synthesizer [OBX], Sampler [Emulator], Marimba [Marimbas], Bells, Vocals, Vocoder, Piano, Sounds [Atmospherics] – The Reverend Ian Kewley* On his last album for Sony, Paul worked with Don Was on The Crossing. Shorn of much of what had made the Paul Young sound, especially on this first long-player without Pino Palladino involved, Paul recalls: “I was living my dream on that album. It didn’t start that way, but Don had a Filofax full of both famous names and top session players and he kept saying: ‘Why don’t we do this song with such-and-such and that song with somebody else?’” Talent Almanach 1983 – Top U.K. Albums" (PDF). Billboard. 24 December 1983. p.TA–31 . Retrieved 27 December 2021.

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At the end of 1994 he released a compilation of soul songs for Christmas, ‘Reflections’ and went on tour to promote this album. Trailed by the single release of Softly Whispering I Love You, Other Voices hit No.4 in the UK album charts, with the biggest single from it becoming the record-company-insisted Oh Girl when it reached No.8 in the US charts. No Parlez is the debut solo studio album by English singer Paul Young. Released in 1983, it reached number one on the UK Albums Chart (for a non-consecutive total of 5 weeks) and remained in the UK Top 100 for 119 weeks. [4] The album has been certified quadruple platinum by the BPI for UK sales in excess of 1.2 million copies. [5] Synthesizer [Arp], Guitar, Vocals, Keyboards [Roland Mc4], Other [Two Pounds For A Good Time] – Matt IrvingIn 1987 he went to studios in Milan to record his third album ‘Between Two Fires’ and met the Italian singer Zucchero. They became good friends, to collaborate later. In 2018, Paul Young celebrated 35 years of his debut album No Parlez. We chatted to him about this blue-eyed soul classic…