The Weakness in Me: The Selected Lyrics of Joan Armatrading

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Peel Sessions- 20/05/1974 Joan Armatrading". BBC Radio 1 - Keeping It Peel. BBC . Retrieved 11 May 2018. a b c d Birch, Helen (4 November 2005). "Interview: Joan Armatrading". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 April 2011. The line indicates that the narrator is torn between her loyalty to her current lover and her feelings for the other person. 5. What is the legacy of The Weakness In Me?

Armatrading was a guest at the Coronation of Charles III and Camilla in 2023. [69] Collaborations [ edit ] Joan Armatrading Supports Local Talent on her September to November 2012 UK and Ireland tour". LocalTalent. Retrieved 8 November 2012. Pareles, Jon (26 August 1988). "Review/Pop; Armatrading at Pier 84". The New York Times . Retrieved 26 July 2012. The main appeal of Armatrading, besides her songs’ blend of jazz and pop, is her voice. Attempts to describe it can be measured by the degree to which they avoid failure. Joan Armatrading’s voice has been described as deep, husky, lyrical, flexible, throaty, genuine, gripping, no-nonsense, dusky, Odetta-like, headstrong, deceptively angsty, natural and artless, satisfyingly unpredictable. [1] In 2007 Armatrading appeared in Episode 3 of the second series of Live from Abbey Road performing "Tall in the Saddle" from her 1976 self-titled album, and "Woman in Love" from the album Into The Blues. She also appeared on Later... with Jools Holland where she performed "Love and Affection", as well as "Woman in Love" and "My Baby's Gone" both from her 2007 Into The Blues album. [ citation needed]In September 2019 Armatrading was the subject of the one-hour documentary Me Myself I, aired on BBC Four, in which she tells her life story, both as a songwriter and as a performer, with key performances from many of the musicians she has influenced. [48] Joan Armatrading: The Concert (1988)". British Film Institute. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014 . Retrieved 16 November 2014.

In 2003, no longer attached to a major label, she released the album Lovers Speak. Though it was her first album in eight years, it met with little commercial success. In 2004, she released a live album, Live: All the Way from America, which was a recording of a concert from her Lovers Speak tour. The Weakness in Me" is a song by Joan Armatrading, from her seventh album Walk Under Ladders, released as a single in the US and Netherlands in November 1981. Despite not charting, the song has become one of Armatrading's better-known songs. Armatrading has said "it's about somebody who has an affair and they've fallen for the person that they're having the affair with, but they love the person they were with whilst they were having the affair." [1] B-sides [ edit ]The song elicits an emotional response from many listeners who have gone through similar experiences. It is a poignant reflection of the human condition – the struggle between our desires and our values, between our loyalty and our attraction. 4. What is the meaning behind the line “I have a lover who loves me / How could I break such a heart?”