Photograph Smile

Labels

  • Varèse Sarabande (U.S.)
  • Fuel 2000 Records ( U.S.)
  • Music from Another Room
  • Avex Trax (Japan)

Occupation

  • Louis Moline
  • Allan Schwartzberg

Production

  • Julian Lennon
  • Bob Rose

Photograph Smile is the fifth album of the singer Julian Lennon. It was published in May 1998 in the UK and Germany and in February 1999 in the United States.

Formation

After Lennon had published in 1991 his album Help Yourself, he retired from the music business. He left his record label Atlantic Records and moved to northern Italy, where he joined the architectural and interior design turned and opened a restaurant. For his new record, which he largely self-produced, he founded the music label "Music from Another Room ", on which the CD was sold in the UK. The cover shows a photo of children Lennon.

The reason to record a new album after seven years, especially the review of previous publications was for Lennon: "I did not want my last albums represent my legacy to the music industry. They just were not good enough. I wanted to make an album that I can be proud of. One, about which I have control, "he said in 1999 in an interview.

Lennon's album was released on 18 May 1998, and thus on the same day, which was also his half-brother Sean Lennon released his debut album, Into the Sun.

After the release of photographer Smile and a subsequent multi-week tour of the U.S. and Europe, Lennon moved back into private life.

Title

Lennon, who was listening to the album as a guitarist, keyboardist, backing vocalist and arranger, wrote all the songs on the album itself Day After Day, Cold, I Do not Wanna Know, Good to Be Lonely and And She Cries created in collaboration with Mark Spiro, during Lennon collaborated on the songs Crucified, Walls, Kiss Beyond the Catcher and photographer Smile with Greg Darling. Way to Your Heart created in collaboration with Dalbello.

Published in Japan version of the album contained with Do not Let Me Down and I Need You two bonus tracks.

The Single Day After Day was part of the soundtrack of the romantic comedy Love at first cry from the year 1998.

Chart success

The album Photograph Smile reached # 94 in the German charts and was the first album Lennon, which was also placed in the German charts. In Austria, the album reached # 40 in Australia, it came in at number 28 on the charts.

The only single that could be placed in the charts, Day After Day was: in the UK it reached number 66

Criticism

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of Allmusic was, Lennon was also found under the influence of groups like Oasis or Blur back to the " Beatlesquen " roots of his debut album Valotte. Many songs on the album were accompanied on piano ballads, and even though the album was not very varied, but the music is melodic and well-crafted - and would get more praise when she would not come from the son of a Beatle.

Rolling Stone wrote that Photograph Smile is an intimate, simple album. It sounds like the work of a man who had made peace with the ghosts of the past and now finally begin again to write new melodies, even if the album is not going to revolutionize pop music.

The mirror designated Photographer Smile of a plate with " very much Julian, very little John, but also very little ideas " while WOM said that Lennon had with Photograph Smile " presented his best album, an emotional look back at his life ."

Genre Rock music Singing Electronic keyboard Bass guitar Tabla Bouzouki Help Yourself (Julian Lennon album) Everything Changes (Julian Lennon album) Music from Another Room (film) Blur (band)
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