My Beauty [Import]

Kevin Rowland | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 21, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Creation Records
• ASIN: B00002R0SE
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #527,350 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Greatest Love Of All

2. Rag Doll

3. Concrete And Clay

4. Daydream Believer

5. This Guy's In Love With You

6. The Long And Winding Road

7. It's Getting Better

8. I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top

9. Labelled With Love (I'll Stay With My Dreams)

10. Reflections Of My Life

11. You'll Never Walk Alone

Editorial Reviews

1999 comeback album/ debut full length for the Creation label from the leader of Dexy's Midnight Runners. A collection of covers, it includes his interpretations of 'The Long And Winding Road', 'The Greatest Love Of All', 'This Guy's In Love With You' and

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Return of the Young Soul Rebel, April 9, 2002

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"pollyjean86" - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Beauty (Audio CD)

Apparantly this album sold less then 500 copies..I am at a loss to understand why, unless the public are as homophobic as the newspapers. I bought this album as a 16 year old troubled teen and it has honestly helped me through many a crisis. 'The Greatest Love Of All' allowed me to accept myself as an outsider..the coda of 'Concrete And Clay' which informs us 'You are everything to me, I love you' brought a glow to my heart, while on 'I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top', Kevin appeared to share the same world weariness as my own. Then last October my father died and Kevin's version of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' (one of my father's favourites) was there to accompany my sorrow and grief. If the great man never makes another record then he went out on a masterpiece of emotion and melancholy in equal measures and I'm sure I won't be the only one to thank him for that.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Bloody marvelous!, June 20, 2000

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"highland_park" (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Beauty (Audio CD)

Poor confused guy! It seems he's had a hard time for a while. The inside cover has a paragraph about how Kevin came about doing these cover songs...the way he 'sings'...he REALLY expresses his true feelings. It's wonderful. You really feel for him. Starting with "The Greatest Love of all" - where you can feel he's finding/found the truth about himself. My favourite, "Concrete and Clay" - so alive..."Can't tell the bottom from the top", "This Guy's in Love", "Daydream believer", all sung in Kevins true rustic/raspy style. The album made me think, falling deep into his thoughts. What's going on in his head? What ever it is, I hope this album bought him much pleasure in making it as I do listening to it!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Batty & Brilliant, March 3, 2005

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K. John "philologist" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Beauty (Audio CD)

Kevin Rowland is an incredibly brave man. After years of drug abuse, poverty, and a career in the dustcan, "My Beauty" was supposed to have represented a triumphant return to the music business. Unfortunately, due to his sartorial choice of the moment it turned into a regrettable laughing-stock.

The record is a spirited selection of covers, songs which Rowland claims helped him through the dark days. It is art as therapy, which doesn't always amount to good (or easy) listening, especially when the therapy sounds to have only recently begun. Particularly disturbing and disruptive is Rowland's tendency to change the lyrics to suit his 'healing' view of the world.

My Beauty allegedly sold less than 500 copies.