This album is about storytelling – the mediaeval-influenced guitar picks on opener “Battery” should be enough to tell you that.
In 1986, they released one of the best metal records of all time, which dealt with the potency and very nature of control, meshing beauty and raw human ugliness together on tracks like “Damage Inc” and “Orion”. HBĭespite not featuring any singles, Metallica’s third album was the UK rock radio breakthrough they’d been looking for. You can hear her listening to the band, biding her time before firing up her voice to demand “R-E-S-P-E-C-T”, 50 years before the #MeToo movement. The Queen of Soul gave herself the same space. When Jerry Wexler signed the daughter of a violent, philandering preacher to Atlantic records, he “took her to church, sat her down at the piano, and let her be herself”. If you want to be one of the first to hear Calum perform new songs from his album, you can buy tickets for his super exclusive Gay Times Intimate & Live headline show at the London Hippodrome on 14 March.I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You (1967), Aretha Franklin The Hull-born singer talks about his debut album Only Human, and how his traumatic coming out when he was a teen, as well as navigating his sexuality as he became famous, influenced the themes within his lyrics.
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You can read our full cover story with Calum Scott in the March 2018 issue of Gay Times, which is out now. “It was finally a sigh of relief after a year and a half.” She did say to Patrick that she’s given the thumbs up to my version, so I was like, ‘Thank god! I can sleep easy.’ “I had reached out, but never managed to get hold of her. “I met with a guy called Patrick Berger who is the other songwriter on that record, and I said, ‘I’m glad that you love this new life that’s been breathed into it, but does Robyn like it?'” he told us. So when we grabbed Calum on set of his first ever Gay Times cover shoot last month, we had to find out if he’d finally heard from the Swedish popstar yet. Of course, we can’t imagine she complained about the royalty cheque she received, but having validation from an artist whose song you’ve covered would give you peace of mind. He’d reached out on Twitter and he was asked in every interview what she thought of the track, but for more than a year he had no idea if she was happy with it or not. On an international scale, it’s been certified platinum in the US, it was a No.2 hit in Australia, and made him a household name across mainland Europe.īut while his version of the song gained him millions of fans, and even some famous ones in the shape of Ed Sheeran and Nile Rodgers, Calum didn’t hear from the lady who essentially helped launch his pop career: Robyn. It took another year before his emotional rendition started to gain steam, but once it did, it became a pop monster.Ĭalum’s version of Dancing On My Own has so far sold over 1.2 million copies in the UK, peaked at No.2 on the Official Top 40, and was even nominated for a BRIT Award. When Calum Scott took to the Britain’s Got Talent stage back in 2015 to audition with a stripped-down version of Robyn’s Dancing On My Own, he had no idea what his version would go on to do.Įven immediately after his time on the ITV contest, there was no real inkling that the cover song would go on to be a hit.