Photograph Smile
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Photograph Smile
- Artist: Julian Lennon
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- Release Date: 1998 04
- Total Time: 64:05
- Type: Lyrics are included with the album, Enhanced CD-ROM
- Genre: Rock
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Despite its moments of inspired songcraft, Julian Lennon's fourth album, Help Yourself, didn't find an audience in 1991. Shortly after its release, Lennon parted ways with Atlantic and entered a period of seclusion. By the time he returned to recording in 1998, the Beatles had already undergone one of their periodic "hip" phases, thanks to the hook-crazy Brit-pop crew. In many ways, bands like Oasis and Blur gave Lennon the go-ahead to return to the Beatlesque songcraft of his debut, Valotte, and that's exactly what he does on Photograph Smile, his first album in seven years. Much of the record is devoted to piano ballads similar to his big hit, "Valotte," with a couple of guitar pop numbers thrown in for good measure. There's not much range on the album, but all the music is well crafted and melodic -- the kind of music that would receive greater praise if it weren't made by the son of a Beatle. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Rovi| Photograph It (2005 Album by Alamos) | |
| Photograph Smile [Japan] (1998 Album by Julian Lennon) |
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Photograph Smile
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| Studio album by Julian Lennon | ||||
| Released | 4 May 1998 | |||
| Recorded | 1996-98 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 64:29 73:10 (bonus tracks) |
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| Label | Varèse Sarabande (US) Fuel 2000 Records (US) Music from Another Room Avex Trax (Japan) Sony Music (Australia/New Zealand) Rough Trade Records (Germany) |
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| Producer | Julian Lennon, Bob Rose | |||
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Photograph Smile is the fifth studio album by English singer-songwriter Julian Lennon. It was released in May 1998, after a seven-year hiatus following his previous album, Help Yourself.
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Track listing
All songs written by Julian Lennon, additional writers in parenthesis.
- "Day After Day" (Mark Spiro) - 4:19
- "Cold" (Spiro) - 4:41
- "I Should Have Known" - 4:16
- "How Many Times" - 5:51
- "I Don't Wanna Know" (Spiro) - 4:04
- "Crucified" (Greg Darling) - 5:11
- "Walls" (Darling) - 4:47
- "Believe" - 4:52
- "Good To Be Lonely" (Spiro) - 4:25
- "Kiss Beyond the Catcher" (Darling) - 4:00
- "And She Cries" (Spiro) - 3:49
- "Photograph Smile" (Darling) - 4:35
- "Faithful" - 3:41
- "Way to Your Heart" (Dalbello) - 5:40
Bonus tracks
- "Don't Let Me Down" - 4:41 (Japan)
- "I Need You" - 4:00 (Japan)
Release details
| Country | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
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| Japan | Avex Trax | CD | AVCZ-95109 / 4988064951093 | |
| United Kingdom | 1998-05-04 | Music From Another Room, Pinnacle | CD | MFAR44CD |
| United States | 1999-02-23 | Fuel 2000 | CD | FLD-1028 / 0 30206 10282 6 |
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