CHESNEY HAWKES – The Complete Picture: The Albums 1991-2012 (2022) FREE

CHESNEY HAWKES will always be synonymous with the “The One And Only”, which was an international hit spending 5 weeks at number one in the UK and hitting the top 10 in the US. But his career is so much more than that and he has continued to write, record and tour, releasing 4 studio albums over the interweaving years since his debut single.
“The Complete Picture: The Albums 1991-2012” is Hawke’s career spanning 5CD/1DVD package compiled and overseen by Chesney himself, collating all the albums along with all the B-sides, remixes, previously unreleased demos/outtakes, etc. This set is packaged in a clamshell box with card wallets and a complete 24 page booklet.
This is quality rock&pop with light AOR moments, very well written, arranged and performed by pro-industry teams.

While Chesney continues recording and touring – he released an EP past year – “The Complete Picture: The Albums 1991-2012” indeed takes the complete major label albums / productions. All these CD’s, inclusive ‘Buddy’s Song’ which includes the hit ‘The One And Only’ had been quite hard to find lately.
A guilty pleasure.
Highly Recommended

CD 1 – Buddy’s Song
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CD 2 – Get The Picture
CD 3 – Another Fine Mess
CD 4 – Real Life Love
CD 5 – Rarities

CD 1 – Buddy’s Song
1 – The One And Only
2 – Nothing Serious
3 – Feel So Alive
4 – I’m A Man Not A Boy
5 – It’s Gonna Be Tough
6 – Torn In Half
7 – I’m Young
8 – Secrets Of The Heart
9 – This Is Me
10 – Ordinary Girl
11 – A Crazy World Like This
12 – Say Mama
BONUS TRACKS:
13 – Waiting For The Night (US Album Version)
14 – One World (US Album Version)
15 – Torn In Half (Orchestral Mix)
16 – Secrets Of The Heart (Live At Abbey Road, 1991)
17 – I’m A Man Not A Boy (Film Version)

CD 2 – Get The Picture
1 – Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
2 – What’s Wrong With This Picture?
3 – Help Me To Help Myself
4 – Sometimes
5 – Black Or White People
6 – Missing You Already
7 – One Of Those Days
8 – Fairweather Christian
9 – The Family Way
10 – Every Little Tear
BONUS TRACKS:
11 – Friends And Lovers
12 – It Hurts When I Laugh
13 – What’s Wrong With This Picture? (Dakeyne’s Mix)
14 – ‘What’s Wrong With This Picture? (12” Dance Mix)’

CD 3 – Another Fine Mess
1 – Overated
2 – Next Life
3 – Stay Away Baby Jane
4 – Sand
5 – Don’t Just Stand There
6 – Another Fine Mess
7 – Failing Light
8 – Blissfully Unaware
9 – Her
10 – Oh So Dull
11 – English Dream
12 – Seven Of Sundays
13 – Come And Get It
14 – Please Bring Me Down
15 – Almost You
16 – Staring At The Sun
BONUS TRACKS:
17 – Stay Away, Baby Jane (Axton Speedway Remix)
18 – Sand (Janice Long BBC Acoustic Session)
19 – Oh So Dull (Janice Long BBC Acoustic Session)
20 – Next Life (Janice Long BBC Acoustic Session)

CD 4 – Real Life Love
1 – Comeback
2 – Flashback Heroine
3 – Real Life Love
4 – Caught Up In Circles
5 – Always Have, Always Will
6 – John Lennon Lived Here
7 – Aeroplane
8 – Camouflage
9 – Let That Be Enough
10 – The One And Only (Acoustic)
BONUS TRACKS:
11 – Let That Be Enough (Piano Demo)
12 – John Lennon Lived Here (92 Demo)
13 – Always Have, Always Will (Demo)
14 – Till You Know What You Want (Demo)
15 – Gravity’s Gone (Demo)
16 – I Wanna Be Somebody (Demo)
17 – Love Lies Bleeding (Demo)
18 – Watching Over You (Demo)
19 – Please Bring Me Down (Heavy Demo)

CD 5 – Rarities
1 – Brain Train (Film Master Mix)
2 – Secrets Of The Heart (Film Master Mix)
3 – Feel So Alive (Film Master Mix)
4 – Taking The Blame (Film Master Mix)
5 – I’m Young (Film Master Mix)
6 – This Is Me (Film Master Mix)
7 – Torn In Half (Film Master Mix)
8 – The One And Only (Abbey Road Monitor Mix)
9 – Move On (Live At Abbey Road, 1991)
10 – Friday At The Hollywood (Demo)
11 – Shes’s The One
12 – The One And Only (2005 Dance Mix)
13 – I’m A Man Not A Boy (Original Demo)
14 – Nothing Serious (Original Demo)
15 – I’m Young (Alt Version)
16 – Peggy Sue (Demo)
17 – Tell Me Something I Don’t Know (JM Kitchen Sink Mix)
18 – Sometimes (JM Kitchen Sink Mix)
19 – Fairweather Christian (Original Demo)

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