It's My Life (album)

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It's My Life
Studio album by Talk Talk
Released February 1984
Recorded 1983
Genre
Length 43:26
Label EMI
Producer Tim Friese-Greene
Talk Talk chronology
The Party's Over
(1982)		 It's My Life
(1984)		 The Colour of Spring
(1986)
Singles from It's My Life
  1. "It's My Life"
    Released: 13 January 1984
  2. "Such a Shame"
    Released: March 1984
  3. "Dum Dum Girl"
    Released: 1984
  4. "It's My Life (reissue)"
    Released: 1985
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
Mojo[3]
Q[4]

It's My Life is the second studio album by Talk Talk, released in 1984.

Release

It's My Life was released in February 1984 by record label EMI.

It was a Top 5 hit album in several European countries,[5] thanks to the big international success of its singles (notably "Such a Shame"), but only reached number 35 in the UK Top 40 chart.[6] In the United States, the album just missed the Top 40, reaching number 42.

It's My Life was particularly successful in Switzerland, the Netherlands and Germany where the album peak-charted at numbers 2, 3 and 4, respectively. In the Netherlands, the album stayed in the charts for 64 weeks between 1984 and 1986.[5]

Cover

The cover to the album was produced by James Marsh, incorporating elements of The Boyhood of Raleigh by John Everett Millais.

Track listing

No. TitleWriter(s) Length
1. "Dum Dum Girl"  Tim Friese-Greene, Mark Hollis 3:51
2. "Such a Shame"  Hollis 5:42
3. "Renée"  Hollis 6:22
4. "It's My Life"  Friese-Greene, Hollis 3:50
5. "Tomorrow Started"  Hollis 5:57
6. "The Last Time"  Ian Curnow, Hollis 4:23
7. "Call in the Night Boy"  Simon Brenner, Lee Harris, Hollis, Paul Webb 3:47
8. "Does Caroline Know?"  Friese-Greene, Hollis 4:40
9. "It's You"  Hollis 4:41

Personnel

Additional personnel

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1984 UK Albums Chart 35
1984 The Billboard 200 42[7]

References

  1. ↑ Woodstra, Chris. "It's My Life – Talk Talk". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  2. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2009). "Talk Talk". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199726363.
  3. ↑ Eccleston, Danny (May 2012). "Lost Horizon". Mojo (222): 100.
  4. ↑ Roberts, David (October 2000). "Talk Talk: It's My Life". Q. Archived from the original on 11 October 2004. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  5. 1 2 Steffen Hung. "Talk Talk - It's My Life". dutchcharts.nl. Retrieved 2015-08-10.
  6. ↑ "ChartArchive - Talk Talk - It's My Life". archive.is. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "It's My Life - Talk Talk - Awards - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
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