Bernard Butler – Friends And Lovers
(Creation Records 1999 CRELP248)
Matrix No’s: A1/B1 – UK Pressing
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Bernard Joseph Butler (born 1 May 1970) is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known as the first guitarist with Suede, until his departure in 1994. He has been hailed by some critics as the greatest guitarist of his generation; BBC journalist Mark Savage called him “one of Britain’s most original and influential guitarists”. He was voted the 24th greatest guitarist of the last 30 years in a national 2010 BBC poll and is often seen performing with a 1961 cherry red Gibson ES-355 TD SV (Stereo Varitone) with a Bigsby vibrato tailpiece.
Friends and Lovers is the second studio album by English singer-songwriter Bernard Butler, released on 25 October 1999 through Creation Records. He released his debut studio album, People Move On, in early 1998; within a few months, Butler had accumulated enough material for his next release. Recorded between November 1998 and February 1999, Butler produced the sessions at RAK Studios in London, before moving to Chipping Norton Recording Studios in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, and finishing at Konk Studios in London. Described as a pop rock release, Friends and Lovers had been compared to the works of Mott the Hoople, Small Faces and Spooky Tooth.
Track listing
All songs written and produced by Bernard Butler.
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | “Friends & Lovers” | 4:13 |
| 2. | “I’d Do It Again If I Could” | 3:26 |
| 3. | “Cocoon” | 4:17 |
| 4. | “Smile” | 4:02 |
| 5. | “You Must Go On” | 3:25 |
| 6. | “No Easy Way Out” | 4:26 |
| 7. | “Everyone I Know Is Falling Apart” | 4:18 |
| 8. | “What Happened to Me” | 3:18 |
| 9. | “Let’s Go Away” | 4:03 |
| 10. | “Precious” | 3:54 |
| 11. | “Has Your Mind Got Away?” | 8:12 |
| 12. | “You’ll Feel It When You’re Mine” | 2:31 |
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