You Only Get One Life by Brigitte Nielsen

Author:Brigitte Nielsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781843586395
Publisher: John Blake
Published: 2011-05-27T16:00:00+00:00

It was during our marriage that I finally got to realise another dream I’d held for as long as I could remember. A Spanish recording company, WEA International, asked me to record an album. Their stars included Amanda Lear, Bad English, Cheap Trick and The Three Degrees. How exactly I fitted into that roster I wasn’t entirely sure – but it didn’t matter. They also distributed widely in France and, most importantly, in Italy, where I had become a superstar. The record company thought my name would be good and thought I should do a synth pop single – very ‘80s. It was the brief vogue that saw Yazoo and the Thompson Twins achieve fame and my attempt would hardly create anything more lasting. All I knew was that the project looked very exciting and it could open up yet another direction for me.

Sylvester was crazy about music. We used to sing together at home and when he was working on a movie he always insisted that he chose the soundtrack. He spent months picking out the right tracks, meeting with artists and repeatedly visiting the studio until he got just the feel he was looking for – he had a natural talent for it. You only have to think of the inspired choice of Survivor’s ‘Eye of the Tiger’ that defined Rocky III. Or James Brown’s ‘Living in America’ and ‘One Way Street’ by Go West.

There was a music room in Sylvester’s house which had a karaoke machine. I spent hours in there and when I wasn’t accompanying the hits of the moment I’d be improvising. Sometimes my PA Kelly would join in. I am a good singer and performer, but I never took it seriously enough. I do wish I had made myself concentrate on it for at least a year or so, worked harder with my singing coach and taken longer in the studio. I didn’t pay any attention to my own critical faculties and even when I was given songs I didn’t like, I’d record them anyway.

Every Body Tells A Story came out in 1987 and it was… okay. The album did sell, but it wasn’t what it could have been. It didn’t work in the US at all, did slightly better in the UK, but it was a hit in Europe. I had a No. 1 in Italy and it did well in Spain and also in South America, but it never took off in the way I thought it should and the fault was purely mine. Still, I got to tour off the back of it in Spain and promoted the album with performances on TV, so although it didn’t win me much respect in musical terms I enjoyed wonderful times working with musicians and getting the chance to live the touring lifestyle. Sylvester allowed me to take off to do the promotion and I worked pretty hard to make it a hit, but I was pretty frustrated that I felt I had to have permission to do it from him.

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