- Performer Julie Covington
- Title (I Want To See The) Bright Lights
- Date of release 1978
- Style Folk Rock
- Other formats DMF VOX DTS MP2 RA APE MPC
- Genre Rock
- Size MP3 1745 mb
- Size FLAC 1729 mb
- Rating: 4.2
- Votes: 653
It was released by Island Records in the UK in 1974. Although never commercially successful and critically ignored upon its release, it is now considered by a number of critics to be a masterpiece and one of the finest works of both Richard and Linda singularly or together.
In 1974, Richard Thompson and the former Linda Peters released their first album together, and I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight was nothing short of a masterpiece, the starkly beautiful refinement of the promise of Thompson's solo debut, Henry the Human Fly. In Linda Thompson, Richard found a superb collaborator and a world-class vocalist; Linda possessed a voice as clear and rich as Sandy Denny's, but with a strength that could easily support Richard's often weighty material, and she proved capable of tackling anything presented to her, from the delicately mournful ".
Then this solo debut album of razor-sharp dance pop became the first by a female performer to score four Top Five hits, including Girls Just Want to Have Fun and Time After Time. Richard and Linda Thompson, ‘I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight’. Richard played guitar like a Sufi-mystic Neil Young; wife Linda had the voice of a Celtic Emmylou Harris.
SEECD 687. Julie Covington. Plus (CD, Album, RE). See For Miles Records Ltd. SEECD 687. UK. 1999.
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Julie Covington Lyrics. The Beautiful Changes Album. The Beautiful Changes Lyrics. Julie Covington - The Beautiful Changes Lyrics. Artist: Julie Covington. Album: The Beautiful Changes. The green covered place that I went to in spring With a notebook and what cigarettes I could bring The cloverleaf crossing now ties in a ring And how the beautiful changes. When the men with a dream who are never refused Drum up the exciting to reap the unused The lovers are judged and condemned unaccused And the beautiful dies with the harvest. Now the loveliest creatures that God ever made Have all picked a partner and joined the parade Where they'll crack up together from making the grade And how the beautiful changes.
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