Year : 1986 (Rock Candy Remastered 2014)
Style : Melodic Rock , AOR
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Video
Size : 169 mb
Bio:
Fiona Eileen Flanagan (born September 13, 1961), known by the stage name Fiona, is an American rock music singer-songwriter and actress best known as the love interest in the 1987 Bob Dylan vehicle, Hearts of Fire.Of Irish origin, Fiona was born in Phillipsburg, New Jersey after her parents moved from Dublin to the United States.At the age of 18, she moved to New York City where she began her career as a singer in several bands.In the mid-1980s, she was signed to Atlantic Records. Her self titled debut album was released in 1985. The album peaked at #71 on that year's Billboard 200 chart and remained charted for a week.The album's sole single, "Talk to Me", reached #12 and #64 on Billboard's Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and Hot 100 charts respectively. That same year, she also guested on Aldo Nova's Twitch Around this time, Fiona made her acting debut in the Jan 31, 1986 Miami Vice second season episode "Little Miss Dangerous".Her second album, Beyond the Pale, was released in 1986. That album spawned two singles: "Hopelessly Love You" and "Living In a Boy's World". In 1987, Fiona starred opposite Bob Dylan in the musical drama Hearts of Fire. Fiona sings the film's title track which appears on the film's soundtrack, along with four previously unreleased songs by Fiona. Her third album, Heart Like a Gun, was released in 1989. That album also yielded two singles, "Where the Cowboys Go" and "Everything You Do (You're Sexing Me)", a duet with Kip Winger. She has since released two additional albums, 1992's Squeeze and 2011's Unbroken.In addition to her own solo work, Fiona has also done backing vocals for other artists including Warrant (on the Cherry Pie album).Fiona was once married to producer Beau Hill, who produced, played some instruments on and sang backing vocals on some of her albums. She was also in a relationship with guitarist Reb Beach of Winger who likewise performed on her album Beyond the Pale.Since taking a break from music, Fiona has married for a second time and graduated from UCLA. She briefly worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers but resigned to have children, of which she has two.
Album:
Completing the first 3 studio albums by FIONA 'Remastered & Reloaded' by Rock Candy Records, here's "Beyond The Pale", featuring 2 bonus tracks.Fiona's self-titled debut album certainly introduced a sensational new talent to the world of femme fronted rock. Her striking looks and gilded vocals made for a fascinating combination, giving her an edge comparable to the anthemic styles of Pat Benatar, Patty Smyth and Heart.The debut album made a sure footed impact, nicely setting up her next long playing foray.For "Beyond The Pale", Atlantic Records teamed her up with fast rising production talent Beau Hill, a man who made waves producing hard rock act Ratt. It was Beau who recruited a top selection of gifted musicians including Nile Rodgers, Kip Winger and Reb Beach, as well as sourcing a number of key songwriters, including material from the pens of Billy Steinberg, Bob Halligan Jr. and Peter Wolf.This is an '80s 'big sounding' record with a true mid-Eighties AOR feel, successfully combining clean cut hi-tech production chops with sizeable blasts of anthemic rock, allowing Fiona's distinctive vocals to punch home the choruses like a hot knife through butter.Check out songs such as "Tragedy" (Kip Winger on backing vocals), "Thunder & Lightning" and the up-tempo "You Better Wait", my favorite, written by AOR master James House."Hopelessly Love You" is the commercial single destined for radio, "Running out of Night" is pure AOR with a 'soundtrack feel', "He's On My Side" is 'the' ballad with a Heart smell, and "Keeper of the Flame" rocks with great guitars.As bonuses, Rock Candy has added two versions of "Hopelessly Love You" (only 12'' vinyl until now), being the extended "Vocal remix" much sought after for years by me (and collectors).Very good remaster with 24 bit sound along with enhanced liner notes, essays and rare photographs.
Line Up:
Fiona – lead and backing vocals
Bobby Messano, Reb Beach, Nile Rodgers – guitar
Reb Beach – guitar
Benjy King – keyboards
David Rosenberg – drums, programming
Joe Franco – drums
Donnie Kisselbach – bass
Kip Winger – backing vocals
Beau Hill – production, backing vocals
Tracklist:
01 - Tragedy
02 - Hopelessly Love You
03 - Living In A Boy's World
04 - Thunder & Lightning
05 - Tender Is The Heart
06 - Running Out Of Night
07 - In My Blood
08 - He's On My Side
09 - You Better Wait
10 - Keeper Of The Flame
11 - Hopelessly Love You (Vocal remix) (Bonus Track)
12 - Hopelessly Love You (Dub version) (Bonus Track)
+ Video "Living In A Boy's World" (Official Video)
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