Breakout (Swing Out Sister song) Released 1986 Format CD single7″ Genre Sophisti-pop Length 3:48 Label Mercury Records Songwriter(s) Andy ConnellCorinne DreweryMartin Jackson Producer(s) Paul Staveley O’Duffy “Breakout” is a single from British act Swing Out Sister’s debut album It’s Better to Travel. The single reached the number four position in the UK in the autumn …
Graceland (album) Released August 25, 1986 Recorded October 1985 – June 1986 Studio New York City, London, Los Angeles, Louisiana and South Africa Genre Worldbeat pop rock folk Length 43:18 Label Warner Bros. Producer Paul Simon Graceland is the seventh solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon. Produced by Simon and Roy Halee, the …
Life Stories (Earl Klugh album) Studio album by Earl Klugh Released 1986 Genre Smooth Jazz, Crossover jazz, Jazz pop, Instrumental Pop Length 41:47 Label Warner Bros. Producer Earl Klugh, Roland Wilson Life Stories is the 13th studio album by Earl Klugh released in 1986. This release, “sets Klugh`s ballads against a variety of musical backgrounds, …
Higher Love Released 20 June 1986 Format 7″, 12″, cassette, CD Genre Pop, blue-eyed soul Length 5:45 (Album Version) 4:14 (Single Version) Label Island – IS 288 Songwriter(s) Steve Winwood Will Jennings Producer(s) Russ Titelman “Higher Love” is a 1986 song by English singer Steve Winwood. It was the first single released from his fourth …
Friends and Lovers (song) Website: Loring/Anderson single info at Discogs Friends and Lovers Released 1986 Format 7″ (45 rpm) Recorded 1985 Genre Pop, contemporary R&B Length 3:50 Label USA Carrere Songwriter(s) Jay Gruska, Paul Gordon Producer(s) Yves Dessca, Doug Lenier, Carl Anderson “Friends and Lovers” is a song written by Jay Gruska and Paul Gordon. The song …
Whispering Jack From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Released 20 October 1986 Recorded October 1985 –June 1986 Genre Pop rock, adult contemporary Length 41:14 Label Wheatley, Sony BMG, RCA Producer Ross Fraser Whispering Jack is the twelfth studio album by Australian adult contemporary pop singer John Farnham. It was produced by Ross Fraser, and released on …
True Colors (Cyndi Lauper song) Released August 25, 1986 Format 7″ vinyl 12″ vinyl Recorded March 3, 1986 Genre Pop Length 3:46 Label Epic Writer(s) Tom Kelly Billy Steinberg Producer(s) Cyndi Lauper Lennie Petze “True Colors” is a song written by American songwriters Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. It was both the title track and …
Press to Play – 1986 Press to Play is the sixth post-Beatles studio album by English musician Paul McCartney (outside of Wings’ body of work), released in August 1986. It was McCartney’s first album of entirely new music since Pipes of Peace in 1983, and his first solo album to be issued internationally by EMI …
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) The Phantom of the Opera is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Charles Hart with additions from Richard Stilgoe. Lloyd Webber and Stilgoe also wrote the musical’s book together. Based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l’Opéra by Gaston Leroux, its central …
Take My Breath Away – 1986 “Take My Breath Away” is a song written by Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock for the film Top Gun, performed by the band Berlin. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Song, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song in 1986. Once Giorgio Moroder …