Marc Almond Backing Tracks
Marc Almond Backing Tracks – Days Of Pearly Spencer … Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart
Marc Almond
Marc Almond (OBE) is an English singer-songwriter and musician. Almond first began performing and recording in the synthpop/new wave duo Soft Cell. He has also had a diverse career as a solo artist.
In 1989 he collaborated with Gene Pitney on the UK number one single “Something’s Gotten Hold of My Heart”.
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He has sold over 30 million records worldwide. He became a patron of the brain trauma charity Headway after spending a month in a coma after a near-fatal motorcycle accident in 2004.
After High School he attended college specialising in Performance Art and later attended Leeds Polytechnic where he did a series of performance theatre pieces. It was here he met David Ball with whom he would form the duo ‘Soft Cell’.
He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to arts and culture.
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Marc Almond Backing Tracks
Days Of Pearly Spencer … Something’s Gotten Hold Of My Heart
Lyrics
A tenement, a dirty street
Walked and worn by shoeless feet
Inside it’s long and so complete
Watched by a shivering sun
Old eyes in a small child’s face
Watching as the shadows race
Through walls and cracks and leave no trace
And daylight’s brightness shuns
The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
Nose pressed hard on frosted glass
Gazing as the swollen mass
On concrete fields where grows no grass
Stumbles blindly on
Iron trees smother the air
But withering they stand and stare
Through eyes that neither know nor care
Where the grass is gone
The days of Pearly Spencer
The race is almost run
Pearly where’s your milk white skin
What’s that stubble on your chin
It’s buried in the rot gut gin
You played and lost not won
You played a house that can’t be beat
Now look your head’s bowed in defeat
You walked too far along the street
Where only rats can run
The days of Pearly Spencer
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