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Fading Shades

Fading Shades
Sandra fading shades front.jpg
Studio album by Sandra
Released 12 June 1995
Recorded 1994–1995
Genre Synthpop, dance, electropop
Length 40:11
Label Virgin
Producer Michael Cretu
Jens Gad
Sandra chronology
18 Greatest Hits
(1992)
Fading Shades
(1995)
My Favourites
(1999)
Singles from Fading Shades
  1. "Nights in White Satin"
    Released: March 1995
  2. "Won't Run Away"
    Released: July 1995
"Won't Run Away"
Won't Run Away - Sandra.jpg
Single by Sandra
from the album Fading Shades
Released July 1995
Format CD single
Recorded 1995
Genre Electropop, Dance
Length 4:18
Label Virgin
Writer(s) Jens Gad
Klaus Hirschburger
Producer(s) Michael Cretu
Jens Gad
Sandra singles chronology
"Nights in White Satin"
(1995)
"Won't Run Away"
(1995)
"Secret Land '99"
(1999)

Fading Shades is the sixth studio album by German singer Sandra, released in 1995.

In 1995, while pregnant with twins, Sandra recorded and released Fading Shades. The album saw a new writer/producer Jens Gad working alongside Michael Cretu. The album featured a powerful cover version of "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody Blues. The music video showed only close-ups of Sandra's face as she was heavily pregnant at the time. She even had to sit during the recording sessions of the album. Again, Andy "Angel" Hart performed all the male vocals on the album. Note that the album cover was taken from the music video of "Nights in White Satin".

The album become one of her least successful releases, reaching number forty-two in Germany and thirty-seven in Switzerland.

The first single released from the album was "Nights in White Satin", which reached number thirty-four in New Zealand. The song went to number one in Israel and entered the top twenty in Finland and Australia. However, in Germany it performed very weakly on the chart, reaching only number eighty-six.

"Won't Run Away" was released in July 1995 as the second and final single from the album. Unfortunately, the song was not successful, as it did not enter on any of the charts. It was her third single that failed to chart and first since 1985's "(I'll Never Be) Maria Magdalena" not to receive a music video.


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