About: My Beauty

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My Beauty is a solo album by Kevin Rowland, lead singer of Dexys Midnight Runners. It was first released in 1999, eleven years after his solo debut The Wanderer. In the interim he had experienced problems with drug addiction. My Beauty is an album of cover songs, although Rowland rewrote several of the lyrics to reflect his battles against substance abuse. The album is notorious for its cover, which shows Rowland in drag and make-up, an image which Rowland also used during contemporaneous appearances at the Glastonbury and Reading festivals. During his appearance at Reading he was pelted with bottles thrown by the audience.

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  • My Beauty is a solo album by Kevin Rowland, lead singer of Dexys Midnight Runners. It was first released in 1999, eleven years after his solo debut The Wanderer. In the interim he had experienced problems with drug addiction. My Beauty is an album of cover songs, although Rowland rewrote several of the lyrics to reflect his battles against substance abuse. The album is notorious for its cover, which shows Rowland in drag and make-up, an image which Rowland also used during contemporaneous appearances at the Glastonbury and Reading festivals. During his appearance at Reading he was pelted with bottles thrown by the audience. The album was intended to have 12 tracks, and the promo CD distributed (to radio/press) before the official album had all twelve. However, the song "Thunder Road" (written by Bruce Springsteen) was pulled from the album at the last minute because Springsteen had not approved the lyrical changes made by Rowland. It is reinstated on the 2020 release. The album was released on Creation Records, on the initiative of label boss Alan McGee, who was a fan of Rowland's work. Upon release, the CD-only album received mixed reviews. It has been reported that the album was one of Creation's lowest-selling albums, shifting only 500 copies, but the album actually sold over 20,000 worldwide. In September 2020, Cherry Red Records re-issued the album, which finally became a UK chart hit, peaking at number 73 in the albums chart. (en)
  • My Beauty is het tweede soloalbum van Kevin Rowland, zanger van de Britse band Dexys Midnight Runners. Het werd in 1999 uitgegeven door en volgde elf jaar na Rowlands solodebuut . (nl)
  • My Beauty är Kevin Rowlands andra studioalbum, utgivet 1999. Albumet innehåller covers, men Rowland skrev om vissa texter så att de skulle spegla hans drogmissbruk. Skivans omslag visar Rowland iförd damkläder och smink. (sv)
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  • Kevin Rowland-My Beauty.jpg (en)
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  • My Beauty (en)
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  • Kevin Rowland, Pete Schwier, Jim Paterson (en)
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  • 1999-09-21 (xsd:date)
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  • studio (en)
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  • My Beauty is het tweede soloalbum van Kevin Rowland, zanger van de Britse band Dexys Midnight Runners. Het werd in 1999 uitgegeven door en volgde elf jaar na Rowlands solodebuut . (nl)
  • My Beauty är Kevin Rowlands andra studioalbum, utgivet 1999. Albumet innehåller covers, men Rowland skrev om vissa texter så att de skulle spegla hans drogmissbruk. Skivans omslag visar Rowland iförd damkläder och smink. (sv)
  • My Beauty is a solo album by Kevin Rowland, lead singer of Dexys Midnight Runners. It was first released in 1999, eleven years after his solo debut The Wanderer. In the interim he had experienced problems with drug addiction. My Beauty is an album of cover songs, although Rowland rewrote several of the lyrics to reflect his battles against substance abuse. The album is notorious for its cover, which shows Rowland in drag and make-up, an image which Rowland also used during contemporaneous appearances at the Glastonbury and Reading festivals. During his appearance at Reading he was pelted with bottles thrown by the audience. (en)
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  • My Beauty (en)
  • My Beauty (nl)
  • My Beauty (sv)
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