Paul Young chats about his latest album release

04-07-2008 14:55

With the release of this debut album in 1983, Paul Young was immediately hailed as an intriguing synthesis of the old and the new.Twenty five years on he is about to do it all over again, with a re-mastered, two-disk album to make your eyes sing with pleasure. FemaleFirst caught up with him to find out of he thought the music would sound just as sweet the second time around.

You are about to celebrate the 25th anniversary of your debut album No Parlez, how does it feel?

Well when they first emailed me with the possibility that it might happen, I hadn’t really thought about it to be honest, and to think that it was 25 years ago sounds shocking! I really don’t know where all the years have gone, but it must mean that I have enjoyed myself for the past 25 years.

Your cover of Marvin Gaye’s “Wherever I lay my hat” came from that album and gave you three weeks at number one, do you still love to sing it?

Well I say not so much, but it’s only that song really because it’s a very simple song so there isn’t that much I can do with it on stage whereas songs such as “Every time you go away” which was my first American number one, there is a lot more that I can do with it on stage and “Wherever I lay my hat” is one of those songs which you can’t really mess around with very much so it’s just two and a half minutes then it’s over.

How would you describe your music?