Edge of Winter

Edge of Winter
Studio album by Sharon O'Neill
Released 27 August 1990
Recorded 1990
Genre Pop
Label Polydor
Producer Alan Mansfield
Sharon O'Neill chronology
Danced in the Fire
(1987)		 Edge of Winter
(1990)		 Live in Paradise
(2001)

Edge of Winter is an album by New Zealand/Australian singer-songwriter Sharon O'Neill, released by Polydor in August 1990. The album marks O'Neill's last solo studio album of new material. All the songs were written by O'Neill, or co-written with guitarist/keyboardist Alan Mansfield of Dragon,[1] who is also her domestic partner. O'Neil and Mansfield had written tracks for Dragon including "Young Years" for their 1989 album Bondi Road.[1] Mansfield also produced the album.

The album's lead single, "Satin Sheets", reached #106 in Australia.[2] The follow-up single, "Poster Girl", did not chart.

Background

Sharon O'Neill began her career in the 1970s in New Zealand, then gained major success in Australia.[3] The early 1980s proved O'Neill's most commercially successful solo period,[3] however a legal battle with her then record company Sony caused a delay in her career.

O'Neill returned with 1987's Danced in the Fire on Polygram, which featured some biographical songs about the legal wrangles with Sony. She released her last solo album "Edge of Winter" in 1990.

In 2014 O'Neill was interviewed by Murray Cammick for Audio Culture. When speaking of her career with Polydor, she said: "It was great doing the two Polydor albums, I put a lot of hard work into them but the last album "Edge Of Winter" is as scarce as hen's teeth, I've only got one copy. They only made a certain amount."[4]

Track listing

All tracks were written by Sharon O'Neill and Alan Mansfield unless otherwise indicated.[1]

  1. "Prelude (To Edge of Winter)"
  2. "Satin Sheets"
  3. "In Our Dreams"
  4. "Strangers Come" (Sharon O'Neill)
  5. "Sunday Driving"
  6. "Little One"
  7. "Edge of Winter" (O'Neill)
  8. "Losing You" (O'Neill)
  9. "I Know You Love Me"
  10. "Missing Person" (O'Neill)
  11. "Poster Girl" (O'Neill)

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Australasian Performing Right Association". APRA. Retrieved 2008-10-13. Note: requires user to input song title e.g. EDGE OF WINTER
  2. ↑ http://imgur.com/11R0bwv
  3. 1 2 Guest, Thomas J. (1991). Thirty Years Of Hits (1960–1990). Collingwood, Melbourne, Australia: M. J. Moloney. ISBN 0-646-04633-0.
  4. ↑ http://www.audioculture.co.nz/people/sharon-o-neill/stories/sharon-o-neill-the-9-12-transcript
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/6/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.