The Phantom of The Opera

Semi-legendary of the early days for Iron Maiden front-man jobs on the shoulders of this man born of Chingford, London as Paul Andrews or being well known over the entire Heavy Metal scene as Paul Di’Anno for quite not long terms before he’d being kick-out the legendary iconic band but never surrender to then, brought his own style of operatic and symphonic Heavy Metal super-power attitude for counting the days just like everyone would keep knowing him as a metallic ex-martyr turning to a travelling rockers of his own realm and musical sounds with mostly, fantasy and horror tales background themes just like this latter releasing for the millennium or compilation of more powerful vocals, out-takes and remixed materials from his previous album.

One of Wakeman's more ridiculous efforts, this is the soundtrack for a re-release of the 1925 film version of Phantom of the Opera. The music varies widely in style, "from operatic rock to tearful ballads" (as the liner notes put it), featuring singers Ashley Holt, Chrissie Hammond, and Ramon Remedios…

Ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Records can be accused of scraping the bottom of the barrel in its second compilation of old Sarah Brightman tracks released to take advantage of the singer's international popularity due to her albums Time to Say Goodbye, Eden, and La Luna, all recorded for a different company. Happily, even the bottom of the barrel contains some excellent material, even after the cream was skimmed off with The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection. During and after her marriage to Lloyd Webber, Brightman performed on the Original London Cast recording of The Phantom of the Opera and recorded the albums The Songs That Got Away (1989) and Surrender (1995), and that's the material sampled here, that is, the remaining tracks that weren't used on The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection.