Marc Almond
Peter Mark Sinclair "Marc" Almond (born 9 July 1957) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Almond first began performing and recording in the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell. He has also had a diverse career as a solo artist. Almond's official website claims he has sold over 30 million records worldwide.
Childhood and early life
Almond was born in 1957 in Southport, (then Lancashire, now part of Merseyside), the son of Sandra Mary Diesen and Peter John Sinclair Almond, a Second Lieutenant in the King's Liverpool Regiment. He was brought up at his grandparents' house in Birkdale with his younger sister, Julia, and as a child suffered from bronchitis and asthma. When he was four, they left their grandparents' house and moved to Starbeck on the edge of Harrogate, North Yorkshire. Two years later they returned to Southport, and then moved to Horsforth (a suburb of Leeds).
At the age of 11 he attended Aireborough Grammar School near Leeds. Almond found solace in music, listening to British radio pioneer John Peel. The first album he purchased was the soundtrack of the stage musical Hair and the first single "Green Manalishi" by Fleetwood Mac. He later became a great fan of Marc Bolan and David Bowie and got a part-time job as a stable boy to fund his musical tastes.
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ALBUMS
- The Dancing Marquis released: 2014
- The Tyburn Tree (Dark London) released: 2014
- Feasting with Panthers released: 2011
- Varieté released: 2010
- Marc in Soho - Live at the London Palladium Soho Jazz Festival 1986 released: 2009
- Orpheus in Exile released: 2009
- In Bluegate Fields: Live at Wilton's Music Hall released: 2008
- Stardom Road released: 2007
- Little Rough Rhinestones, Volume 2 released: 2006
- In Session, Volume Two released: 2003
- In Session, Volume One released: 2003
- Heart on Snow released: 2003
- Little Rough Rhinestones, Volume 1 released: 2002
- The Willing Sinner released: 2002
- Stranger Things released: 2001
- Live at the Union Chapel released: 2000
- Open All Night released: 1999
- Flesh Volcano / Slut released: 1998
- Live in Concert released: 1998
- A Virgin's Tale, Volume II released: 1998
- Violent Silence / A Woman's Story released: 1998
- Violent Silence / Flesh Volcano released: 1997
- Fantastic Star released: 1996
- Child Star released: 1995
- A Virgin's Tale, Volume 1 released: 1994
- Singles 1984-1987 released: 1993
- Absinthe: The French Album released: 1993
- 12 Years of Tears: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Edited Highlights) released: 1993
- My Hand Over My Heart released: 1992
- Tenement Symphony released: 1991
- Memorabilia: The Singles released: 1991
- Enchanted released: 1990
- Jacques released: 1989
- The Stars We Are released: 1988
- Pink Culture released: 1987
- Mother Fist and Her Five Daughters released: 1987
- A Woman's Story released: 1986
- Violent Silence released: 1986
- Stories of Johnny released: 1985
- Vermin in Ermine released: 1984
- Treasure Box released:
Stardom Road
Released 2007- I Have Lived
- I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten (feat. Sarah Cracknell)
- Bedsitter Images
- The London Boys
- Strangers in the Night
- The Ballad of Sad Young Men (feat. Antony Hegarty)
- Stardom Road
- Kitsch
- Backstage (I'm Lonely) (feat. Jools Holland)
- Dream Lover
- Happy Heart
- Redeem Me (Beauty Will Redeem the World)
- The Curtain Falls
Little Rough Rhinestones, Volume 2
Released 2006- Come in Sweet Assasin (early Alt version)
- Lonely Drag (But I'm Alive)
- Love and I (Are Just Good Friends)
- Tower of Strength
- Jealousy
- You Are My Destiny
- Mysterious Lover
- Scarlet Bedroom (original version)
- They Come They Go
- Shadow of Your Heart
- Throwing Roses
- When Bad People Kiss
- Lonely Go Go Dancer
- I'll Be Crying
In Session, Volume Two
Released 2003- Always
- Traumas, Traumas, Traumas
- Broken Hearted and Beautiful
- Love and Little White Lies
- I Who Never
- My Candle Burns
- Heart Medley: Unchain My Heart / Black Heart / Take My Heart
- Adored and Explored
- Bedsitter
- We Need Jealousy
- Gutter Hearts
- Tenderness Is a Weakness
- Hell Was a City
- Love for Sale
- Pink Shack Blues
Heart on Snow
Released 2003- So Strange the Path (So Wide the Field)
- Strange Feeling
- Gosudaryunia
- Always and Everywhere (I Will Follow You)
- Oh, My Soul (Trad.)
- Two Guitars
- Heart on Snow (with "Russia" Orchestra)
- Nuit de Noel
- Romance
- The Storks
- Luna (The Moon)
- White Flowers of Acacia
- The Glance of Your Dark Eyes (feat. Mikhail Aptekman)
- If Your Affectionate Smile Has Gone
- Sleeping Beauty
- Just One Chance
- Gone but Not Forgotten (feat. Choir of the Higer Naval Engineering Academy)
- So Wide the Field (reprise)
- The Glance of Your Dark Eyes (version 2) (feat. Mikhail Aptekman)
The Willing Sinner
Released 2002- Fun City
- Stories of Johnny
- Broken Hearted and Beautiful
- Where the Heart Is / Waifs & Strays
- A Woman's Story
- Torch
- If You Go Away
- Youth
- L' Esqualita
- Toreador in the Rain
- Mr Sad
- In My Room
- Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart
- Orpheus in Red Velvet
- Kept Boy
- A Man (Un Homme)
- Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
- King of the Fools
- Tenderness Is a Weakness
Jacques
Released 1989- The Devil (Okay) (Le Diable)
- If You Need (S'il te faut)
- The Lockman (L'Éclusier)
- We Must Look (Il nous faut regarder)
- Alone (Seul)
- I'm Coming (J'arrive)
- Litany for a Return (Litanie pour un retour)
- If You Go Away (Ne me quitte pas)
- The Town Fell Asleep (La Ville s'endormait)
- The Bulls (Les Toros)
- Never to Be Next (Au suivant)
- My Death (La Mort)
Treasure Box
- City of Nights
- Waifs and Strays (The Grid mix)
- King of the Fools
- The Libertine's Dream
- Only the Moment (All the Time in the World mix)
- The Gambler
- Tears Run Rings (La Magia Dance mix)
- Everything I Wanted Love to Be
- Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart (Solo Vocal version)
- Bitter Sweet (The Big Beat mix)
- The Frost Comes Tomorrow
- She Took My Soul in Istanbul (Blue Mosque mix)
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The Town Fell Asleep
by: Marc AlmondThe town fell asleep
I forgot what it's called
At the spring
Where it wept a corner of sky drowned
The town fell asleep
I forgot what it's called
And night fell gradually
And time stood still
And my horse so muddy
And my body exhausted
And night shown bluely
In the waters of fate
And some cries of hate
Poured out by the old
And the oldest of old
Those women without sleep
The town fell asleep
I forgot what it's called
At the spring
Where it wept a corner of sky drowned
The town fell asleep
I forgot what it's called
And horse bent drinking
And me stood watching
And my thirst taking care
That she never sees my stare
And the fountain sings
And exhaustion sinks
It's knife in my back
And I play the role
Of the all powerful
I'm awaited somewhere
Like one awaits the king
No, no one waits for me
And I know it's hard
But we die by chance
While leading a merry dance
The town fell asleep
I forgot what it's called
At the spring
Where it wept a corner of sky drowned
The town fell asleep
I forgot what it's called
Sometimes a dusk
It's true that birds resemble waves
And waves are birds
And men are laughs
And laughs are psalms
More often it's true
That the sea no longer sings
I want to tell you
That it sings of the songs
That those mothers sing in books of our childhood
but women are still only ever women and the fools among them only ever fools
And I'm not so sure that the song states
That she is the future of man
The town fell asleep
I forgot what it's called
At the spring
Where it wept a corner of sky drowned
The town fell asleep
I forgot what it's called
And you have died
My unknown mate
On the brink of the naked
Beneath the sheets
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