Everytime you go away/This means anything by Paul Young

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Everytime you go away/This means anything by Paul Young --

Columbia # 38 04867,1985,45 rpm -

very good condition -lot 22566 bte45trs --

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biography by Steve Huey

For much of the '80s, Paul Young rivaled Simply Red's Mick

Hucknall as the top blue-eyed soul/pop singer in the U.K. In

America, Young was known primarily for his lone chart-topper

"Every time You Go Away," but was able to sustain his

commercial success at home for much of the decade. He was

chiefly an interpretive singer, and although he did write

some of his own material, his greatest strengths lay in

covering R&B classics and rescuing forgotten chestnuts from

obscurity. Unfortunately, Young's career was interrupted

periodically by difficulties with his voice, and those health

problems substantially curtailed his activities in the

'90s.Paul Young was born in Luton, north of London in

Bedfordshire, on January 17, 1956. He started his music

career playing bass and guitar in several local bands,

gradually working his way up to lead singer posts. Young

first made a splash as frontman of new wavers the Streetband,

who scored a national U.K. hit with 1978's "Toast." When they

disbanded in 1979, Young and several bandmates quickly

regrouped as the Q-Tips, a retro-minded soul outfit with a

jones for classic Motown. With a self-titled album on

Chrysalis and a relentless touring schedule, the Q-Tips

generated significant interest in Young's solo potential, and

in 1982 he signed with CBS, hastening the Q-Tips'

breakup.Young forged a songwriting partnership with Q-Tips

keyboardist Ian Kewley, who also joined Young's new backing

band the Royal Family (complete with a subset of female

backup singers dubbed the Fabulous Wealthy Tarts). His debut

solo single, "Iron Out the Rough Spots," was released in late

1982, and was followed by a cover of Nicky Thomas' reggae-pop

hit "Love of the Common People." Neither single did

particularly well on the charts, but his version of the

lesser-known Marvin Gaye number "Wherever I Lay My Hat

(That's My Home)" was a roaring success, topping the U.K.

charts and pushing his debut album, No Parlez, to the same

position later that year. No Parlez gave Young his first Top

40 hit in the U.S. with the Jack Lee-penned "Come Back and

Stay" (a U.K. Top Ten), and also drew attention with its

left-field cover of Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart."

Young mounted an international tour in support of the album,

which sold several million copies worldwide; afterwards,

however, he suffered the first of numerous throat ailments

which would pop up throughout his career.Kept out of action

for much of the latter-half of 1984, Young nonetheless made a

contribution to the Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

single, and returned to the U.K. Top Ten with a version of

Ann Peebles' "I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down." The latter

appeared on his sophomore album The Secret of Association,

released in 1985. That year, Young scored the biggest hit of

his career with "Every time You Go Away," a previously

obscure Hall & Oates album track from 1980. "Every Time You

Go Away" topped the pop charts in both the U.K. and U.S.,

ending up as far and away his biggest success in the latter.

Young followed it with another U.K. Top Ten hit in the

original "Everything Must Change," and watched The Secret of

Association become his second U.K. chart-topping album.Young

concentrated mostly on original material (co-written with

Kewley) on his third album, 1986's Between Two Fires. A

slicker, less soul-flavored outing, Between Two Fires sold

respectably to Young's U.K. fan base, but didn't produce any

major hits, and slowed his momentum somewhat. In its wake,

Young took several years off from recording, chiefly for

personal reasons but also to rest his voice. He didn't return

until 1990, when Other Voices restored his commercial

standing with a reading of the Chi-Lites' classic "Oh Girl,"

his only other U.S. Top Ten. He returned to the U.K. Top Five

in 1991 with "Senza Una Donna (Without a Woman)," a duet with

Italian pop singer Zucchero that appeared on Young's hits

comp From Time to Time: The Singles Collection. In 1992,

Young's version of Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes of the

Brokenhearted" rose from the Fried Green Tomatoes soundtrack

to top the U.S. adult contemporary charts, even though it

missed the pop Top 20.By this time, health problems were

beginning to exact a toll on Young's voice, yet he remained a

viable performer. 1993's The Crossing was his final album for

Columbia, spawning the U.K. single "Now I Know What Made Otis

Blue." In late 1994, Young issued an album of soul covers

called Reflections, on the smaller Vision Music label. He

then disappeared for several years, giving occasional live

performances but mostly resting his voice and procuring new

material. Eventually, Young signed with East/West, for whom

he released an eponymously titled album in 1997. Displaying a

stronger country influence, the record failed to sell well

even in the U.K., and Young found himself without a label

again. In 1999, he mounted a small-venue tour of the U.K.

that earned him solid reviews. He subsequently concentrated

on Los Pacaminos, a Tex-Mex/country-rock band he'd started on

an informal basis in the mid-'90s; they issued a self-titled

debut album in 2002.
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