Heaton, now in his sixties, has reached the ‘respected elder statesman’ era of his career (Gareth Paisey of Los Campesinos! You’ve always been capable writing from unusual perspectives, but who are the lyricists you most admire yourself? Coming over 36 years after my first ever release, it’s an unbelievable privilege to reach Number 1 again,” Heaton tells Officialcharts. When I was much younger it was Pete Shelley – I was convinced all those Buzzcocks singles were about me! My Mother’s Womb celebrates the woman that gave him birth (a firebrand who could be “loud as Heathrow Airport [or] quiet as a Baptist mouse”) and gives thanks for the steeliness of a social conscience which continues to inform his own politics.

Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott: NK-Pop album review — a jolly

Too Much For One is another example of a great conversational/argument songs between yourself and Jacqui. Jacqui Abbottwas lead vocalist in The Beautiful South from ’94 to 2000 and she sang many of their signature hits including ‘Rotterdam’, ‘Perfect 10’, ‘Don’t Marry Her’ and ‘Dream A Little Dream’. I thought about what might have happened there, and the landlord running the place on his own after his wife has gone.The former members of the Beautiful South also have three 1990s UK bestsellers to their name as members of that group, with the 1994 compilation Carry On Up The Charts, 1996’s Blue Is The Colour and the 1998 release Quench. Paul Heaton on putting everyday tales to song and the lyrical influence of Pete Shelley and Bill Withers.

Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott - N.K Pop - Vinyl LP Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott - N.K Pop - Vinyl LP

Along with the live shows in July 2012, a recording of The 8th was released on a CD/DVD format, including tracks by Simon Aldred of Cherry Ghost, Aaron Wright, Mike Greaves, Yvonne Shelton, Jacqui Abbott and Heaton himself.There’s things that have been sung jokingly in rehearsals that we’d never perform in public, though [laughs]. To coincide with the album release, Heaton and Abbott performed three shows at Sheffield City Hall, Blackpool Empress Ballroom and London's Royal Albert Hall, performing the album in full. Heaton's second solo album, The Cross-Eyed Rambler, was released on 7 July 2008, preceded by the single "Mermaids and Slaves" on 30 June, and he toured in support of it throughout July. Heaton played over 700 competitive games at junior and amateur level, often insisting on driving back from gigs on a Friday or Saturday night to attend his Saturday and Sunday matches.

Paul Heaton, Jacqui Abbott - N.K-Pop Album Reviews, Songs

My life is a soundtrack, i track my life through music, photography is my passion, my escape, my expression. In 2019Paul released a career spanning compilation of his biggest hits entitled ‘The Last King Of Pop’.

Throughout his childhood, Heaton's main interest was football, and he regularly attended Sheffield United games. As a song, Still had to be quiet, meditative, and simple in it’s arrangement, to hopefully reflect and understand those emotions. Right from the opening couplet (“Still got you with me, she’s still got the scar/Still got the child seat strapped in the car”) it’s a striking, heartbreaking but sensitively despatched portrait of loss it’s hard to imagine any other current pop star handling with such care and compassion.

Paul Heaton + Jacqui Abbott – N.K-Pop (2022, Digisleeve, CD Paul Heaton + Jacqui Abbott – N.K-Pop (2022, Digisleeve, CD

Whilst in Surrey he, with his brother Adrian, formed their first band "Tools Down" with friends John Box and Stuart Mair. Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott have announced details of a new album and shared a moving single, ‘Still’. In May 2012, Heaton set off on his 50:50 cycle tour of British and Irish pubs, promoting his latest album, British pubs, and cycling. The documentary included archived material and interviews with many key figures from throughout Heaton's life. In 2022, unable to do another cycling tour, he sent money to 60 pubs across the UK and Ireland to enable them to give free pints to celebrate his 60th birthday.

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