No Parlez
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| Studio album by Paul Young | |||||
| Released | 18 July 1983 | ||||
| Recorded | 1982/83 at The Workhouse 490 Old Kent Road London SE1 | ||||
| Genre | Pop, soul, new wave | ||||
| Length | 64:31 | ||||
| Label | CBS (UK) / Columbia (US) | ||||
| Producer | Laurie Latham | ||||
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| Rolling Stone (RS 407) |  |
No Parlez is the debut solo album by the English singer Paul Young. Released in 1983, it reached number one on the UK Albums Chart (for a non-consecutive total of 5 weeks) and remained in the UK Top 100 for 119 weeks. The album has been certified Triple Platinum by the BPI for UK sales in excess of 900,000 copies.
Initially the first two singles, "Iron Out the Rough Spots" and a re-make of "Love of the Common People" had no success, but the third, a cover of the Marvin Gaye classic "Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home)" was No. 1 in the UK singles chart for three weeks in the summer of 1983, and the first of Young's 14 British Top 40 singles. Similar success followed in continental Europe. In the UK, the follow-up single "Come Back and Stay" reached No. 4, and the re-release of "Love of the Common People" made it to No. 2 in late 1983.
The album was released with a different cover in North America, and a new video for the single "Come Back and Stay" was made.
In 2008, a promotional CD of the album was distributed by The Daily Mail newspaper.
The album was re-released on 30 June 2008 in the UK and worldwide on 5 August 2008 as a 25th-anniversary edition. It contains the original 11 tracks as well as a bonus 10-track disc with a combination of B-sides, remixes and live tracks. Although the booklet claims that this is the original vinyl album on CD, 3 songs are shortened from their U.K. vinyl release; "Come Back and Stay", "Love Will Tear Us Apart" & "Love of the Common People", all of which use the respective single edits found on the original U.S. and Canadian pressings of the album. The original U.K. vinyl versions of these tracks remain unreleased.
The Extended Club mixes of "Wherever I Lay My Hat" & "Sex", the full version of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and the Scratch Mix of "Come Back and Stay", which were all included on the original CD release, were not included on the 25th anniversary edition. However, In 2013 they were all included on the compilation album Remixes and Rarities.
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