British icon Twiggy will release her first album in 12 years on 21st November. Next to modelling, music is Twiggy’s other most successful career and a major passion, having scored hits in the early 70s and won awards for her stage performances.
ROMANTICALLY YOURS is a hand-picked collection of all-new interpretations of pop and easy listening standards spanning several generations, each one of them a personal favourite of Twiggy’s, including amongst others Gershwin and Rodgers & Hart, Neil Young, Bryan Adams, Ray Davies and Richard Marx.
The album marks the resumption of the highly successful musical vocation that runs throughout her entire, remarkable story, and has embraced distinguished vocal achievements on film, stage and record, as well as chart singles and albums in the 1970s, including two Golden Globe Awards for her lead role in Ken Russell’s movie adaptation of the 1920s musical pastiche ‘The Boy Friend, that started some incredible adventures, from London’s West End to Broadway, including TV shows with everyone from Bryan Ferry to Bing Crosby, her own top 20 UK hit single in 1976, the country-tinged ‘Here I Go Again’, and two top 40 albums, ‘Twiggy’ and ‘Please Get My Name Right.’
For ROMANTICALLY YOURS Twiggy has chosen to leaf through the pages of the great American Songbook and record versions of such timeless compositions as ‘Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,’ ‘Blue Moon,’ ‘My Funny Valentine,’ ‘Someone To Watch Over Me’ and ‘They Can’t Take That Away From Me.’ From there she realised how much the album should reflect her love of more recent songs, including Janis Ian’s achingly poignant ode to the agonies of teenage insecurity, ‘At 17’; Chip Taylor’s pop perennial, ‘Angel Of The Morning’, and Bryan Adams’ 1985 ballad ‘Heaven’ (having become friends with the Canadian rock star via his other line of work, when he photographed her for a book in aid of a breast cancer charity).
The album also includes a guest vocal appearance by Twiggy’s daughter Carly Lawson on Neil Young’s ‘Only Love Can Break Your Heart’, a guitar solo by Bryan Adams, and a version of Richard Marx’s ‘Right Here Waiting’ featuring duet vocals with the American songwriter himself.
“Music’s so much a part of my life and my career,” Twiggy says. “There was a time when I thought that was what I would do, but these people who say they plan their career, how? I don’t think you can. Things present themselves to you, whether it be acting, singing, modelling, whatever you do. But I love my life, because I do so many different things.”
ROMANTICALLY YOURS was produced by the much in-demand James McMillan, whose impressive resumé includes playing trumpet for everyone from Sade to James Brown, as well as recording five jazz-flavoured albums of his own.
ROMANTICALLY YOURS track listing:
1. Waterloo Sunset
2. Blue Moon
3. Right Here Waiting
4. Heaven
5. Someone To Watch Over Me
6. They Can’t Take That Away From Me
7. At Seventeen
8. The Very Thought Of You
9. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
10. Only Love Can Break Your Heart
11. Angel Of The Morning
12. My Funny Valentine
