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Howard
Jun-11-2006, 19:35 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
 | Bodo. I told you UK would do Paul proud and at Number 4 it has done so!!! |
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Micky
Jun-11-2006, 20:59 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
| Where´s that Howard? |
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Howard
Jun-11-2006, 21:22 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
| UK Album Charts #4
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Sumit
Jun-11-2006, 22:07 GMT
IP:
Australia
 | This is an absolutely sensational result! Congratulations Paul. Atleast there are some parts of the world that continue to appreciate your music.
Howard: I just had a look at Francesca´s website. I really it. Looking forward to hearing "Colours Faded". Cheers. |
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Matthew Evans
Jun-11-2006, 22:28 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
 | It shows what good promotion can do for an album.
Paul has been on the BBC TV/Radio for two weeks now constantly and this is his reward.
Well done Paul and Warner Bros. |
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Richard
Jun-11-2006, 22:43 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
| As a long time Paul Simon fan (about 40 years) I truly appreciate the UK´s reception. I only wish that my country was sensitive enough to appreciate the genius in their midst...
Thank you.
(Richard from the US Virgin Islands, using a different computer) |
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Simon Evans
Jun-12-2006, 10:13 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| I think the UK has long had a special affection for Paul´s music, going right back to Simon and Garfunkel days, when Bridge Over Troubled Water stayed on the album charts here for about six years - long after it had dropped off the charts in the US. Perhaps Warner Brothers were being more shrewd than we realised by delaying the UK release until June 5 - allowing a slow-burn of publicity to spread the requisite ´buzz´. I don´t recall as much activity round a Paul Simon release in the UK since Rhythm Of The Saints - interviews and reviews in all the major newspapers as well as TV and radio appearances and interviews. Being album of the week on BBC Radio 2 was vital - tapping into the slightly older record-buying market. and releasing Father and Daughter as a single was a stroke of genius - picking up lots of airplay for the album in the week before release. Let´s hope it can maintain a strong chart placing next week too, rather than drop rapidly down the chart as seems to have happened elsewhere. Releasing Outrageous as the next single might help to keep momentum going, we shall see. |
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Bodo
Jun-12-2006, 10:17 GMT
IP:
Austria
 | Wartime Prayers would be a better choice as a single IMO. Doesn´t it? |
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Søren
Jun-12-2006, 10:20 GMT
IP:
Denmark
 | Wartime Prayers should have the potential of being a worldwide hit IMO. But who are we to tell? ;-) |
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Simon Evans
Jun-12-2006, 10:22 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| A wonderful song, I agree, and one of Paul´s all-time best in my opinion but I think you need something more immediately catchy and radio-friendly. Wartime Prayers is one of those songs that reveals its riches over time (to me anyway!) whereas Outrageous hooks in listeners straight away. |
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scaaty
Jun-12-2006, 10:26 GMT
IP:
Ireland
 | All of you who have men in your lives with daughters, F&D single would make a brilliant fathers day present - June 18th |
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Simon Dooker
Jun-12-2006, 16:08 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| What the BBC needs to do now is to capitalise on the recent surge in interest of Paul Simon, and release the entire Five to Ten one hour recording session of January 1965. Once thought lost, or wiped, presenter Stuart Grundy revealed they had recently been unearthed.
This would neatly bring matters full circle, Songbook to Surprise, and help commemorate 50 years in the music business. But would Paul give his blessing?.
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Howard
Jun-12-2006, 21:15 GMT
IP:
USA - United Staates America
| Surprise sold 30,594 last week. |
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