Cher - 2018 - Dancing Queen (HDtracks) [[email protected]]
Artist: Cher
Title: Dancing Queen (HDtracks)
Format: WEB, 10 files FLAC, Album, Remstered, 24bit 44.1kHz, HDtracks
Producer: Cher (exec.), Benny Andersson (also exec.), Björn Ulvaeus (exec.), Judy Craymer (exec.), Mark Taylor
Release Date: September 28, 2018
Recorded: May–August 2018
Label: Warner Bros. Records
Genre: Pop, Soft Rock, Pop-Rock
Duration: 40:09
Cher:
Wikipedia:
Cher (born Cherilyn Sarkisian; May 20, 1946) is an American singer and actress. Commonly referred to by the media as the Goddess of Pop, she has been described as embodying female autonomy in a male-dominated industry. She is known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for having worked in numerous areas of entertainment, as well as adopting a variety of styles and appearances during her six-decade-long career.
Cher gained popularity in 1965 as one-half of the folk rock husband-wife duo Sonny & Cher after their song "I Got You Babe" reached number one on the American and British charts. By the end of 1967, they had sold 40 million records worldwide and had become, according to Time magazine, rock's "it" couple. She began her solo career simultaneously, releasing in 1966 her first million-seller song, "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)". She became a television personality in the 1970s with her shows The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, watched by over 30 million viewers weekly during its three-year run, and Cher. She emerged as a fashion trendsetter by wearing elaborate outfits on her television shows.
While working on television, Cher established herself as a solo artist with the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", "Half-Breed", and "Dark Lady". After her divorce from Sonny Bono in 1975, she launched a comeback in 1979 with the disco album Take Me Home and earned $300,000 a week for her 1980–1982 concert residency in Las Vegas.
In 1982, Cher made her Broadway debut in the play Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean and starred in its film adaptation. She subsequently earned critical acclaim for her performances in films such as Silkwood (1983), Mask (1985), and Moonstruck (1987), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. She then revived her musical career by recording the rock-inflected albums Cher (1987), Heart of Stone (1989), and Love Hurts (1991), all of which yielded several successful singles.
Cher reached a new commercial peak in 1998 with the album Believe, whose title track became the biggest-selling single of all time by a female artist in the UK. It features the pioneering use of Auto-Tune, also known as the "Cher effect". Her 2002–2005 Living Proof: The Farewell Tour became one of the highest-grossing concert tours of all time, earning $250 million. In 2008, she signed a $180 million deal to headline the Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas for three years. Cher's first studio album in 12 years, Closer to the Truth (2013), became her highest-charting solo album in the U.S. when it debuted at number three on the Billboard 200. In 2018, Cher returned to film for her first on-screen role since 2010's Burlesque, starring in the romantic musical comedy film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. She also embarked on the Here We Go Again Tour, her first tour in Oceania in 13 years.
Cher has won a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, an Academy Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Cannes Film Festival Award, a special CFDA Fashion Award, and a Kennedy Center Honors prize, among several other honors. She has sold 100 million records worldwide to date, becoming one of the best-selling music artists in history. She is the only artist to date to have a number-one single on a Billboard chart in each decade from the 1960s to the 2010s. Outside of her music and acting, she is noted for her political views, philanthropic endeavors, and social activism, including LGBT rights and HIV/AIDS prevention.
Dancing Queen:
Wikipedia:
Dancing Queen is a cover album and the twenty-sixth studio album by American singer and actress Cher, released by Warner Bros. Records on September 28, 2018. It is Cher's first album in five years, following Closer to the Truth (2013). The album contains cover versions of songs recorded by Swedish pop group ABBA, with the title referencing their 1976 song "Dancing Queen". The album follows Cher's appearance in the 2018 musical film Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again, based on the music of ABBA.
AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine:
Dancing Queen isn't the soundtrack to Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again but it's something sexier: an ABBA covers album by Cher inspired by her role as Ruby in the 2018 film. Cher didn't sing much in Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again -- she duetted with Andy Garcia on "Fernando" and was part of the crew singing "Super Trouper" -- but it was enough to whet her appetite to sing more of Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus' songs, so she headed into the studio with her producer Mark Taylor and cut ten quick covers. Bearing the perhaps-inevitable title Dancing Queen, the tribute is swift and breezy, especially for a record that doesn't take liberties with the original arrangements. Taylor peppers the album with vocoders and electronic beats but the intent and feel of Cher's interpretations are faithful to the original beloved hits. It's just enough of an update to feel fresh, yet familiar enough to be nothing but a dose of glitzy, cheerful nostalgia.
Tracklist:
01. Dancing Queen - 3:42
02. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight) - 4:11
03. The Name of the Game - 4:48
04. SOS - 3:22
05. Waterloo - 2:52
06. Mamma Mia - 3:34
07. Chiquitita - 5:14
08. Fernando - 3:57
09. The Winner Takes It All - 4:32
10. One of Us - 3:53
Personnel:
Cher - Concept, Executive Producer, Primary Artist
Benny Andersson - Executive Producer, Keyboards, Mixing, Piano, Producer
Göran Arnberg - Orchestration, Transcription
Rob Barron - Piano
Thomas Bowes - Orchestra Leader
Matt Brind - String Arrangements, String Conductor
Andy Caine - Vocals (Background)
Judy Craymer - Executive Producer
Mats Englund - Bass
Isobel Griffiths - Orchestra Contractor
Lasse Jonsson - Guitar
Martin Koch - Conductor, Orchestration
Per Lindvall - Drums
London Session Orchestra - Orchestration
Paul Meehan - Engineer, Keyboards, Programming
Simon Meredith - Saxophone
Rocco Palladino - Bass
Adam Phillips - Guitar
Hayley Sanderson - Vocals (Background)
Ash Soan - Drums
Jörgen Stenberg - Percussion
Mark Taylor - Engineer, Keyboards, Producer, Programming, Vocal Producer
Björn Ulvaeus - Executive Producer
Lasse Wellander - Guitar
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