''Dare to Love'' is the 1995 second solo album by

Jimmy Somerville James William Somerville (born 22 June 1961) is a Scottish pop singer and songwriter. He sang in the 1980s with the pop groups Bronski Beat and The Communards, and has also had a solo career. He is known in particular for his powerful and soul ...

, former lead singer of the

synthpop Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s a ...

groups

Bronski Beat Bronski Beat were a British synthpop trio which achieved success in the mid-1980s, particularly with the 1984 chart hit "Smalltown Boy", from their debut album '' The Age of Consent''. "Smalltown Boy" was their only US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 s ...

and

The Communards The Communards were a British synth-pop duo formed in London in 1985. The duo consisted of Jimmy Somerville and Richard Coles. They are most famous for their cover versions of "Don't Leave Me This Way", originally by Harold Melvin & the Blue N ...

Track listing

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" (Jimmy Somerville, Matt Rowe, Richard Stannard) # "

Hurts So Good "Hurts So Good" is a song by American singer-songwriter John Mellencamp, then performing under the stage name "John Cougar". The song was a number two hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 for the singer/songwriter. It was the first of three major hi ...

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Phillip Mitchell Leroy Phillip Mitchell (born June 27, 1944), often credited as Prince Phillip Mitchell, is an American R&B singer, songwriter, and record producer. He wrote " Starting All Over Again" for Mel and Tim, and " It Hurts So Good" and "Leftovers", ...

) # "Cry" (Somerville, Gary Butcher) # "Lovething" (Somerville, Butcher) # " By Your Side" (Matt Rowe, Somerville, Richard Stannard) # "Dare to Love" (Somerville, Butcher) # "

Someday We'll Be Together "Someday We'll Be Together" is a song written by Johnny Bristol, Jackey Beavers, and Harvey Fuqua. It was the last of twelve American number-one pop singles for Diana Ross & the Supremes on the Motown label. Although it was released as the f ...

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Harvey Fuqua Harvey Fuqua (July 27, 1929 – July 6, 2010) was an American rhythm and blues singer, songwriter, record producer, and record label executive. Fuqua founded the seminal R&B/doo-wop group the Moonglows in the 1950s. He is notable as one of th ...

Jackey Beavers Robert Lewis "Jackey" Beavers (June 19, 1937 – October 28, 2008)

Johnny Bristol John William Bristol (February 3, 1939 – March 21, 2004) was an American musician, most famous as a songwriter and record producer for the Motown label in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was a native of Morganton, North Carolina, about which ...

) # "Alright" (Somerville, Butcher) # "Too Much of a Good Thing" (

Jules Shear Jules Mark Shear (born March 7, 1952) is an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He wrote the Cyndi Lauper hit single " All Through the Night" and The Bangles' hit "If She Knew What She Wants", and charted a hit as a performer with "Stead ...

Stephen Hague Stephen Hague (born 1960) is an American record producer most active with various British acts since the 1980s. Early life Hague was born in Portland, Maine in 1960. Early career Hague started his musical career in the mid-1970s as a session k ...

) # "A Dream Gone Wrong" (Somerville, Butcher) # "Come Lately" (Somerville, Butcher) # "Safe in These Arms" (Somerville, Butcher) # "Because of Him" (Somerville, Butcher)

Personnel

*Jimmy Somerville - vocals *

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 ...

– backing vocals (tracks: 1, 8, 13) * Chyna Gordon – backing vocals (tracks: 6, 10, 12) *

Geoffrey Williams Geoffrey Williams is an English singer and songwriter. Five of his singles charted on the UK Singles Chart in the 1990s. In the U.S., "It's Not a Love Thing", from his third album ''Bare'' (1992), reached No. 70 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. D ...

– backing vocals (tracks: 1, 3, 7, 8, 13) * Matthew David – backing vocals (tracks: 2-4, 7, 9) * Paul Lewis – backing vocals (tracks: 1-4, 6, 9, 10, 12) *

Phil Spalding Philip Spalding (born 19 November 1957, London, England) is an English bass player. He is best known as a session musician and player of Fender Precision Bass guitars. He has played and appeared with performing artists such as Mick Jagger, Sea ...

– bass (tracks: 1, 6-8, 10, 12, 13) * Jeremy Meehan - bass (track: 3) * Andy Duncan – drums (tracks: 6 to 8, 12, 13), percussion (tracks: 1-4, 10, 12) * David Beebe – drums (tracks: 2, 3, 10) * Gary Butcher – guitar (tracks: 3, 6, 8, 10, 12) * Glenn Nightingale - guitar (track: 2) *

The Kick Horns Kick Horns are a UK horn section based in London. They have worked prolifically as session musicians with a wide variety of performers, and have also recorded as an ensemble. The Kick Horns were established in the 1980s by Simon C. Clarke and Ti ...

– horns (tracks: 2, 9, 11) * J. J. Nash – keyboards (tracks: 6, 7, 10, 12) * Jonn Savannah – keyboards (tracks: 2, 3, 8) * Flash - guitar, bass (track: 2) * Victor Johnson - guitar, bass (track: 11) *Sally Herbert - violin (track: 13) *Audrey Riley, Chris Pitsillides, Leo Payne, Sally Fenton - strings (track: 3) *Sian Bell, Sonia Slany - strings (track: 5) *Chris Tombling, Jayne Harris, Leo Payne - strings (track: 7)

References

External links

Jimmy Somerville's official website
{{Jimmy Somerville 1995 albums Jimmy Somerville albums albums produced by Stephen Hague London Records albums