Sleeping with the Past is the twenty-second studio album by British singer-songwriter Elton John, released on 29 August 1989. It is his best-selling album in Denmark (where it was recorded) and is dedicated to his longtime writing partner Bernie Taupin. The album features his first solo number-one single, "Sacrifice", in his home country of the UK, which helped the album also hit number one there, his first since 1974's Elton John's Greatest Hits…
The past Elton John has in mind is the era of soul music of the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s, and although all the songs are new, he recreates it well here…
This 2001 theme album by Dagda is made up of eleven compositions about love. The titles of these songs best illustrate the concept of this album. Among them, there is "Delilah" a song about the Biblical seductress who betrayed Samson. Other selections are sultrier, such as "Hold Me Now" and "Gods of Love Live Here," which center around the pleasures of human touch. Meanwhile, "Sailing By" and "Spirits Fly" are two songs about loneliness and lingering memories of faded love.
Overall, each piece on Sleeping With The Gods of Love revolves around a passionate tale of love gained or lost, and each lyric suggests godly intervention or heavenly fate. The music itself combines traditional Irish instruments, such as tin whistles and uilleann pipes, with keyboard washes, and computer-generated drum loops…
Sleeping with the Past is the 22nd studio album by the English singer-songwriter Elton John, released on 29 April 1989. It is his best-selling album in Denmark (where it was recorded) and is dedicated to his longtime writing partner Bernie Taupin. The album features his first solo number-one single, "Sacrifice", in his home country of the UK, which helped the album also hit number one there, his first since 1974's Elton John's Greatest Hits…
The Elton John Vinyl Club 2017 collection of reissues wraps up with today’s release of "Sleeping With The Past" (1989) and "Elton John – One Night Only: The Greatest Hits" (2000) on 180gm vinyl.