''Closer to Heaven'' is an album of songs from the

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'' Closer to Heaven''. The songs feature the original

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Track listing

#"My night" - Billie Trix and Cast #"Something special" - Straight Dave #"Closer to heaven" - Shell and Straight Dave #"In denial" - Vic and Shell #"Call me old-fashioned" - Bob Saunders #"Nine out of ten" - Shell and Straight Dave #"It's just my little tribute to Caligula, darling!" - Billie Trix and Billie's Babes #"Hedonism" #"Friendly fire" - Billie Trix #"Shameless" - Vile Celebrities #"Vampires" - Vic and Billie Trix #"Closer to heaven" - Straight Dave and Mile End Lee #"Out of my system" - Shell and Billie's Babes #"K-Hole" - Billie Trix #"For all of us" - Straight Dave #"Closer to heaven" - Straight Dave #"Positive role model" - Straight Dave

Personnel

*Neil Tennant *Chris Lowe *

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(Billie Trix) *

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(Straight Dave) * Stacey Roca (Shell Christian) * Tom Walker (Mile End Lee) *

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(Vic Christian) *

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(Bob Saunders) *

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(Flynn) Guest musicians *Chris Nightingale - Programming, additional keyboards and arrangements. Piano on 9 & 15 *Chuck Norman - Programming *Pete Gleadall - Original programming *Chris Zippel - Original programming and production on 17 *

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Carol Kenyon Carol Kenyon (sometimes spelt Karol; born 1959) is a British singer. She is best known for her vocals on the Heaven 17 hit song "Temptation", which reached number two in the UK Singles Chart in 1983. When the song was re-released as a remix by ...

& Tommy Blazie - Backing vocals on 1 & 10 *Claire Worall - Backing vocals on 10 *Jonathan Harvey - Backing vocals on 5 *Mark Stanway &

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- Solo vocals on 10 *Craig Armstrong - Orchestration and original production on 11 *C.Jay Ranger - Solo vocals on 10 & backing vocals on 13 *Akiya Henry - Backing vocals on 13

Chart performance

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