Marc Almond

Marc Almond
Cantante y compositor británico cultivador de la música pop
Datos generales
Nombre real:	Peter Mark Sinclair Almond
Fecha de nacimiento:	9 de julio de 1959 Southport, Inglaterra
Padres:	Peter John Sinclair Almond Sandra Mary Dieson
Ocupación:	Cantante, compositor
Información artística
Género(s):	pop
Instrumento(s):	voz
Artistas relacionados:	David Bowie, Jacques Brel

Marc Almond. Cantante y compositor británico cultivador de la música pop. Su nombre real es Peter Mark Sinclair Almond.

Síntesis biográfica

Nace el 9 de julio de 1959 en Southport, Inglaterra.

Trayectoria musical

Influido por Lou Reed, Syd Barreto, Marc Bolan, David Bowie y Jacques Brel, integró las bandas Soft Cell y Marc & the Mambas.

Tras fundar The Willing Sinners, su banda acompañante, graban en 1984 el álbum VERMIN IN ERMINE.

Otros álbumes de la década de los 80 son: STORIES OF JOHNNY VIRGIN (1985); MOTHER FIST AND HER FIVE DAUGHTERS VIRGIN (1987); THE STARS WE ARE PARLOPHONE (1988) y JACQUES SOME BIZARRE LABEL (1989).

Entre sus temas más escuchados se encuentran: Stories of Johnny; Tears Run Rings; The Days of Pearly Spencer; Somethings Gotten Hold of My Heart, este último a dúo con Gene Pitney, el cual se posicionó en la cima de lo más escuchado en Reino Unido en 1989.

De 2015 es el álbum THE VELVET TRAIL.

Discografía

Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret (1981)

• Say Hello Wave Goodbye
• Secret Life
• Sex Dwarf
• Tainted Love
• Frustration
• Chips on My Shoulder
• Bedsitter
• Entertain Me
• Youth
• Seedy Films

The Art of Falling Apart (1983)

• Where The Heart Is
• Hendrix Medley: Hey Joe / Purple Haze / Voodoo Chile
• Forever the Same
• Love You Hating Me
• Baby Doll
• Numbers
• Martin
• Kitchen Sink Drama
• The Art of Falling Apart
• Heat

Vermin in Ermine (1984)

• You Have
• Gutter Hearts
• Crime Sublime
• Ugly Head
• The Boy Who Came Back
• Tenderness Is a Weakness
• Shining Sinners
• Hell Was a City
• Solo Adultos

Stories of Johnny (1985)

• Stories of Johnny
• My Candle Burns
• I Who Never
• The House Is Haunted
• The Flesh Is Willing
• Love and Little White Lies
• Traumas, Traumas, Traumas
• Always
• Contempt
• Love Letter

Violent Silence (1986)

• Body Unknown
• Things You Love Me For
• Unborn Stillborn
• Blood Tide
• Healthy as Hate

Mother Fist and Her Five Daughters (1987)

• The Hustler
• There Is a Bed
• The River
• Melancholy Rose
• Champ
• The Sea Says
• Angel in Her Kiss
• Mother Fist
• Saint Judy
• Ruby Red
• The Room Below
• Mr. Sad

The Stars We Are (1988)

• Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart
• Bitter Sweet
• The Frost Comes Tomorrow
• Tears Run Rings
• The Sensualist
• Only the Moment
• Kept Boy
• She Took My Soul in Istanbul
• Your Kisses Burn
• The Very Last Pearl
• These My Dreams Are Yours
• The Stars We Are

Jacques (1989)

• We Must Look (Il nous faut regarder)
• Alone (Seul)
• The Town Fall Asleep (La Ville s'endormait)
• The Devil (Okay) (Le Diable)
• If You Need (S'il te faut)
• Litany for a Return (Litanie pour un retour)
• If You Go Away (Ne me quitte pas)
• I'm Coming (J'arrive)
• The Lockman (L'Éclusier)
• Never to Be Next (Au suivant)
• My Death (La Mort)
• The Bulls (Les Toros)

Enchanted (1990)

• A Lover Spurned
• The Desperate Hours
• Waifs and Strays
• Orpheus in Red Velvet
• Carnival of Life
• Madame de La Luna
• Death's Diary
• Widow Weeds
• Toreador in the Rain
• The Sea Still Sings

Tenement Symphony (1991)

• Champagne
• Jacky
• What Is Love?
• I've Never Seen Your Face
• Prelude
• Vaudeville and Burlesque
• Beautiful Brutal Thing
• Trois Chansons de Bilitis - Extract
• Days of Pearly Spencer
• My Hand Over My Heart
• Meet Me in My Dream

Absinthe (1993)

• Secret Child
• Undress Me
• In Your Bed
• Rue Des Blancs-Manteaux
• Yesterday When I Was Young
• The Slave
• Lost Paradise
• Abel and Cain
• My Little Lovers
• Incestuous Love
• Remorse of the Dead
• A Man

12 Years of Tears: Live at the Royal Albert Hall (1993)

• Waifs and Strays
• Champagne
• Tainted Love
• If You Go Away
• Youth
• Jacky
• Mr. Sad
• There Is a Bed
• Tears Run Rings
• What Makes a Man
• Desperate Hours
• Bedsitter
• Say Hello Wave Goodbye
• Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart

Fantastic Star (1996)

• We Need Jealousy
• Out There
• Addicted
• Brilliant Creatures
• Adored And Explored (7" Edit)
• Betrayed
• The Idol (Pts. 1 & 2 All Gods Fall)
• Child Star
• Looking For Love (In All The Wrong Places)
• Love To Die For
• Baby Night Eyes
• Shining Brightly
• Caged
• On The Prowl
• The Edge Of Heartbreak
• Come In Sweet Assassin

Open All Night (1999)

• Black Kiss
• My Love
• Night & Dark
• Scarlet Bedroom
• Threat of Love
• Midnight Soul
• Tragedy (Take a Look and See)
• Almost Diamonds
• Bedroom Shrine
• Open All Night
• Bad People Kiss
• Sleepwalker
• Heart in Velvet

Stranger Things (2001)

• Amo Vitam
• Love in a Time of Science
• End in Tears
• Dancer
• Glorious
• Born to Cry
• Glorious (Reprise)
• Under Your Wing
• Come Out
• Tantalise Me
• Lights
• Moonbathe Skin
• When It's Your Time

Heart on Snow (2003)

• Oh, my soul
• The moon
• Heart on snow feat Russia Orchestra
• So wide the field feat Mikhail Aptekman
• The glance of your dark eyes feat Mikhail Aptekman
• Christmas night feat Boris Grebenshchikov
• Just one chance
• Strange feeling feat Sergey Michaylovitsj Penkin
• Two guitars feat Loyko
• If your affectionate smile has gone feat Iliá Lagutenko
• White flowers of acacia
• So long the path (So Wide The Field)
• Gone but not forgotten
• Romance
• The storks
• Sleeping Beauty
• Always and everywhere (I will follow you)

Stardom Road (2007)

• The Ballad of Sad Young Men (feat. Antony Hegarty)
• I Close My Eyes and Count to Ten (feat. Sarah Cracknell)
• Backstage (I'm Lonely) (feat. Jools Holland)
• I Have Lived
• Redeem Me (Beauty Will Redeem the World)
• The London Boys
• Strangers in the Night
• Happy Heart
• Bedsitter Images
• Stardom Road
• The Curtain Falls
• Kitsch
• Dream Lover

Orpheus in Exile (2009)

• Pearly Night
• Friendship
• I Love So Much to Look Into Your Eyes
• Brave Boy
• Day and Night
• When Youth Becomes a Memory
• Autumn
• Beggar
• A Skein of White Cranes
• Letter from Magadan
• My Fire
• Boulevards of Magadan
• Forgotten Tango

Varieté (2010)

• Bread and Circus
• Sin Song
• My Madness and I
• Swan Song
• Sandboy
• It's All Going On
• Cabaret Clown
• Unloveable
• The Exhibitionist
• But Not Today
• Intro
• Nijinsky Heart
• Soho So Long
• Lavender
• Varieté
• Trials of Eyeliner

The Dancing Marquis (2014)

• The Dancing Marquis
• Tasmanian Tiger
• Idiot Dancing
• Worship Me Now (Starcluster Remix)
• Love Is Not on Trial
• Burn Bright
• Death of a Dandy
• Worship Me Now
• Worship Me Now (Spatial Awareness Remix)
• So What's Tonight?

The Tyburn Tree (The Tyburn Tree (Dark London) (2014)

• Dark Angel
• Ratcliffe Highway
• Jerusalem
• Fortress
• The Labyrinth of Limehouse
• My Fair Lady
• To the Crow the Spoils
• Spring-heeled Jack
• Poor Henry
• Black Widow
• The Tyburn Tree
• The Vampire of Highgate

Ten Plagues - A Song Cycle (2014)

• Spring
• The Wig
• Return
• The Hermit
• The Pit
• A Comet
• Farewell
• To Dream
• By Day
• Seeing You
• A New Law
• The Quaker
• Grief
• Market
• Ten Plagues/Epilogue
• Without a Word

The Velvet Trail (2015)

• When the Comet Comes
• Pleasure's Wherever You Are
• Finale (Instrumental)
• Act Two (Instrumental)
• Minotaur
• Life in My Own Way
• The Pain of Never
• Zipped Black Leather Jacket
• Act One (Instrumental)
• Act Three (Instrumental)
• Earthly
• Winter Sun
• Bad to Me
• Demon Lover
• Scar
• The Velvet Trail

Shadows and Reflections (2017)

• How Can I Be Sure
• Something Bad on My Mind
• Interlude
• Embers
• I Know You Love Me Not
• I'm Lost Without You
• Overture
• The Shadow of Your Smile
• All Thoughts of Time
• Not for Me
• Shadows & Reflections
• Still I'm Sad
• From the Underworld
• No-One to Say Goodnight To
• Blue on Blue

A Lovely Life to Live (2018)

• On My Soul
• Big Black Mercedes 600
• Dirk Bogarde and Me (Take Tea)
• I'll Take Care of You
• How Deep Is the Ocean
• Tainted Love
• Workhouse Blues
• Hymne à l'amour
• I Lost My City
• Gipsy Rover
• London You Were My Lover
• A Lovely Life to Live
• It's My Life Baby
• When the Saints Go Marching In

Chaos and a Dancing Star (2020)

Dust

• Giallo
• When the Stars Are Gone
• Black Sunrise
• Fighting a War
• Chaos
• Hollywood Forever
• Chevrolet Corvette Stingray
• Dreaming of Sea
• The Crow's Eyes Have Turned Blue
• Slow Burn Love
• Cherry Tree
• Lord of Misrule

Fuentes

• Fariñas González, Joao Pablo. Una década de música: el sonido anglosajón de los 80. Página 103. Editorial Arte y Literatura, 2017. ISBN: 978-959-03-0816-1.