Elaine Paige
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Elaine Paige OBE (born Elaine Jill Bickerstaff, 5 March 1948) is an English singer and actress best known for her work in musical theatre. Raised in Barnet, North London, Paige attended the Aida Foster stage school, making her first professional appearance on stage in 1964, at the age of 16. Her appearance in the 1968 production of Hair marked her West End debut.
Following a number of roles over the next decade, Paige was selected to play Eva Perón in the first production of Evita in 1978, which brought her to the attention of the broader public. For this role, she won the Laurence Olivier Award for Performance of the Year in a musical. She went on to originate the role of Grizabella in Cats and had a Top 10 hit with "Memory", a song from the show. In 1985, Paige released "I Know Him So Well" with Barbara Dickson from the musical Chess, which remains the biggest-selling record by a female duo. She then appeared in the original stage production of Chess, followed by a starring role in Anything Goes which she also co-produced. Paige made her Broadway debut in Sunset Boulevard in 1996, playing the lead role of Norma Desmond, to critical acclaim. She appeared in The King and I from 2000 to 2001, and six years later she returned to the West End stage in The Drowsy Chaperone. She has also worked sporadically in television.
Elaine Paige (album)
Elaine Paige is the second solo album from Elaine Paige, released in 1981. The album charted at #56 in May 1982 and was re-issued on CD in 1995 by Warner Music. The recording was produced by Tim Rice and Andrew Powell. Paige had met Rice when she was cast as Eva Perón in the original stage production of his musical Evita in 1978. He also wrote lyrics for a number of the tracks on the album. Rice's former writing partner Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the arrangement of the track "The Second Time", for which Rice had set words to Francis Lai's theme to the film Bilitis.
The track "Secrets" was originally written for the Barbra Streisand album Guilty, but didn't make it on to the final record.
Soon after completing recording of the album, Paige stepped into the role of Grizabella in the musical Cats very soon before its opening night after Judi Dench, who was to have played the role, damaged her Achilles tendon during rehearsals.
Track listing
Podcasts:
Elaine Paige
ALBUMS
- The Ultimate Collection released: 2014
- Elaine Paige and Friends released: 2010
- Essential Musicals released: 2006
- Centre Stage: The Very Best of Elaine Paige released: 2004
- Performance released: 1997
- Encore released: 1996
- Piaf released: 1995
- Love Can Do That released: 1991
- The Collection released: 1988
- Memories: The Best of Elaine Paige released: 1987
- Christmas released: 1986
- Love Hurts released: 1985
- Cinema released: 1984
- Stages released: 1983
- Elaine Paige released: 1981
- The Queen Album released:
- From a Distance released:
- The Best of Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson Together released:
The Ultimate Collection
Released 2014- Evita: Don't Cry for Me Argentina (1978 version)
- Cats: Memory (1981 UK single)
- Ave Maria
- Jesus Christ Superstar: I Don't Know How to Love Him
- A Chorus Line: What I Did for Love
- Dream Girls: One Night Only
- Champions: Sometimes
- Unchained: Unchained Melody
- Chess: I Know Him So Well (1984 UK single)
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- For You
- Piaf: La Vie En Rose
- Les Miserables: I Dreamed a Dream
- Sunset Boulevard: As If We Never Said Goodbye
- Sunset Boulevard: With One Look
- The Prayer
- Follies: I'm Still Here
- Grease: It's Raining on Prom Night (1983 outtake From "Stages")
- Flashdance: What a Feeling (Ted Carfrae mix) (1984 outtake From "Cinema")
- Nine: Be on Your Own (Almighty remix - radio edit)
Essential Musicals
Released 2006- Oliver!: Where Is Love?
- The Sound of Music: Edelweiss
- Grease: Hopelessly Devoted to You
- Evita: You Must Love Me
- Les Miserables: Bring Him Home
- West Side Story: Something's Coming
- Carousel: If I Loved You
- The Phantom of the Opera: All I Ask of You
- Chess: Someone Else's Story
- South Pacific: I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair
- Hair: Aquarius
- Sunset Boulevard: Surrender
- Follies: Broadway Baby (Follies)
Centre Stage: The Very Best of Elaine Paige
Released 2004- Something in Red
- Memory
- I Know Him So Well
- Miss You Nights
- The Perfect Year
- September Song
- Non, je ne regrette rien
- Another Suitcase in Another Hall
- Change the World
- Cry Me a River
- From the Heart
- Wishin' on a Star
- I Dreamed a Dream
- Don't Cry for Me Argentina
- One More Time
- Hymne a l'amour (If You Love Me)
- On My Own
- The Rose
- Ave Maria
Piaf
Released 1995- Hymne à l'amour (If You Love Me)
- C'est à Hambourg (Harbour Girl)
- La Vie en rose
- La Goualante du pauvre Jean (The Ballad of Poor Old John)
- Les Trois Cloches (The Three Bells)
- Mon dieu
- Les Amants d'un jour (Lovers for a Day)
- La Belle Histoire D'Amour
- Je sais comment (All This I Know)
- Non, je ne regrette rien
- L'Accordéoniste (The Accordionist)
The Collection
Released 1988- Memory
- I Know Him So Well
- Love Hurts
- Non, je ne regrette rien
- Another Suitcase in Another Hall
- The Windmills of Your Mind
- Up Where We Belong
- So Sad
- The Second Time
- I Don't Know How to Love Him
- Macarthur Park
- Alfie
- Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word
- Without You
- Send in the Clowns
- What I Did for Love
- Falling Down to Earth
- On My Own
- Bright Eyes
- If You Don't Want My Love
Christmas
Released 1986- Walking in the Air
- Peace on Earth/The Little Drummer Boy
- Father Christmas Eyes
- Ave Maria
- Wishin' on a Star
- Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
- Coventry Carol
- The Coldest Night of the Year (Incredible Phat)
- Light of the Stable
- I Believe in Father Christmas
- A Winter's Tale
- Thirty-Two Feet and Eight Little Tails
From a Distance
- I Only Have Eyes for You
- From a Distance
- Bangkok (live)
- True Colors
- He's Out of My Life
- Bohemian Rhapsody (live)
- If I Love You
- As Time Goes By
- Mad About the Boy
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
- September Song
- Oxygen
- Song of a Summer Night
- Love Can Do That
- Well Almost
- Heart Don't Change My Mind
- Only the Very Best
- Grow Young
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On My Own
by: Elaine PaigeOn my own pretending he's beside me
All alone i walk with him till morning
Without him i feel his arms around
And when i loose my way i close my eyes
And he has found me
In the rain the pavement shines like silver
All the lights are misty in the river
In the darkness the trees are full of starlights
And all i see is him and me
Forever and forever
And i know it's only in my mind
That i'm talking to myself and not to him
And although i know that he is blind
Still i say there's a way for us
I love him but when the night is over
He is gone the river's just a river
Without him the world around me changes
The trees are bare and everywhere
The streets are full of strangers
I love him but everyday i'm learning
All my life i've only been pretending
Without me his world will go on turning
The world is full of happiness
That i have never known
I love him......
I love him......
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