My Secret Life (Eric Burdon album)

My Secret Life (English for My Secret Life ) is a studio album by the British rock singer Eric Burdon, which was published in 2004. Included is the single ' Once Upon a Time. " The album was a commercial failure and placed only in the German album charts.

Background

When after 16 years, the work was completed on a studio album that had 12 tracks for the first time the record was released in 2004 as his " comeback album ". Shortly before the release Burdon sounded in the middle of the night an album by Leonard Cohen on which the song "In My Secret Life " was included. He ran back into the studio and decided to bring a 13th title on the plate. In addition, the 13 tracks are different for the first time enormously from Burdon 's previous rock / hard rock music, so there are traditional rock ballads such as " Factory Girl ", Blue titles such as "Once upon a time" but " jazzy " songs such as "Heaven" or Leonard Cohen's " In my Secret Life ".

Songs

• "Once upon a Time" is a Blue work that Burdon knew of Robert Blackely and revised. In this song, Burdon sings of his time when he was still in school and fell in love with a girl. He mentions, inter alia, Marvin Gaye, Sam Cooke, Elvis Presley and Otis Redding. It was the only single release from the album.

• " Over the Border " is a rock song that Burdon was written by composer / songwriter David Munyon.
• "Heaven" was originally recorded by Talking Heads and was rewritten by Burdon, because the bar called Heaven should be a positive side.

• " Broken Records " is a ballad. In one of the first lines of the late soul singer James Brown is mentioned.

• "Can not kill the Boogieman " was written by Burdon and starts like Norman Greenbaum 's Spirit in the Sky.

Title list

Charts

• Album ( rock )
• 2004 album
• Eric Burdon