- Rolling Stock
- Pumping Iron
- AC/DC
- He Whistled at Me
- The Race
- Starlight Express
- U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D.
- Right Place, Right Time
- I Am the Starlight
- One Rock 'n' Roll Too Many
- Light at the End of the Tunnel
- Crazy [From The New Starlight Express]
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Richie Havens Primary Artist
Marc Cohn Primary Artist
Josie Aiello Primary Artist
Harold Faltermeyer Primary Artist
Earl Jordan Primary Artist
Pete Hewlett Primary Artist
El DeBarge Primary Artist
Stephanie Lawrence Vocals
Frances Ruffelle Vocals
Lon Satton Vocals
Gary Love Vocals
Chrissy Wickham Vocals
Starlight Express Cast Ensemble Choir/Chorus
Michael Staniforth Vocals
Debbie Wake Vocals
Paul Reeves Vocals
Attlee Baptiste Vocals
Nancy Wood Vocals
Carole Amphlett Vocals
Ray Shell Vocals
Jeffrey Daniel Vocals
Kofi Missah Vocals
Richard Bodkin Vocals
Eddie Kemp Vocals
Danny John-Jules Vocals
P.P. Arnold Vocals
Trevor Nunn Director
John Napier Design
Arlene Phillips Choreographer
Nobby Clark Photography
Peter Reeves Composer
David Mackay Remixing
Martin Levan Sound Technician
Nick Webb Digital Remastering
Alan Shacklock Producer
David Caddick Production Director
David Hersey Lighting
Andrew Lloyd Webber Composer,Producer
Starlight Express [Original Cast Recording]
by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Starlight Express [Original Cast Recording]
by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Vinyl LP(Long Playing Record - Special Edition)
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Overview
When Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Starlight Express opened in the West End in 1984, it was accompanied by an original London cast album released on Polydor Records. Three years later, when Starlight Express opened in New York, no original Broadway cast album appeared. Instead, Lloyd Webber helped put together a various artists/studio cast version, Music and Songs From Starlight Express, on which such performers as El DeBarge and Richie Havens sang over tracks produced by Phil Ramone. Such an approach was appropriate to the pop-rock style of the music, and probably was intended to break out a pop hit. Onstage, Starlight Express' music was swamped by its visual style, with its performers roller skating around the stage in their futuristic costumes. Minus the staging and given overtly contemporary pop arrangements dominated by synthesizer parts, however, the music still sounded bland, even when an expressive vocalist like Havens or session singer Marc Cohn (years before his commercial breakthrough) was leading the charge. Essentially Lloyd Webber's attempt to get in on the Flashdance/Footloose sound of the mid-1980s, the music remained the least intriguing part of Starlight Express. [As a bonus, the album contains a previously unreleased 1977 recording of "Engine of Love," featuring Earl Jordan and produced by Lloyd Webber that the composer described as "the grandfather of the whole project." It has more of a disco feel than the rest of the album.] ~ William Ruhlmann
Product Details
Release Date: | 06/07/2024 |
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Label: | Verve |
UPC: | 0602465086850 |
Rank: | 7369 |
Tracks
Album Credits
Performance Credits
Andrew Lloyd Webber Primary ArtistRichie Havens Primary Artist
Marc Cohn Primary Artist
Josie Aiello Primary Artist
Harold Faltermeyer Primary Artist
Earl Jordan Primary Artist
Pete Hewlett Primary Artist
El DeBarge Primary Artist
Stephanie Lawrence Vocals
Frances Ruffelle Vocals
Lon Satton Vocals
Gary Love Vocals
Chrissy Wickham Vocals
Starlight Express Cast Ensemble Choir/Chorus
Michael Staniforth Vocals
Debbie Wake Vocals
Paul Reeves Vocals
Attlee Baptiste Vocals
Nancy Wood Vocals
Carole Amphlett Vocals
Ray Shell Vocals
Jeffrey Daniel Vocals
Kofi Missah Vocals
Richard Bodkin Vocals
Eddie Kemp Vocals
Danny John-Jules Vocals
P.P. Arnold Vocals
Trevor Nunn Director
Technical Credits
Richard Stilgoe Composer,LyricistJohn Napier Design
Arlene Phillips Choreographer
Nobby Clark Photography
Peter Reeves Composer
David Mackay Remixing
Martin Levan Sound Technician
Nick Webb Digital Remastering
Alan Shacklock Producer
David Caddick Production Director
David Hersey Lighting
Andrew Lloyd Webber Composer,Producer
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