Perfect Songs

Chris Braide

2010-07-19T16:12:20Z

Chris Braide is one of UK pop's foremost songwriting talents. Cheryl Cole, JLS and Westlife, all of which reached double platinum status. We've added a biography of Chris' stellar career to our Artists/Writers section as Perfect controls more than 20 of his songs, from his work with Thomas Dolby and Mick Hucknell while signed to Polydor Records, and from working with David A. Stewart while with EastWest.]]>

Chris Braide

2010-07-19T15:57:17Z

Chris Braide is one of UK pop's foremost songwriting talents. In 2009 alone, he scored three #1 albums thanks to songs written for Cheryl Cole, JLS and Westlife, all of which reached double platinum status. ]]> Diana Vickers, The Saturdays, Leon Jackson, Jesse McCartney, Kylie Minogue, James Morrison, Beverley Knight, Paloma Faith, Alesha Dixon, Ronan Keating, and Pixie Lott. Perfect controls all of the songs on Chris' first two solo albums, Chapter One and Life in a Minor Key. Produced by Thomas Dolby and Mick Hucknall, Chapter One was recorded for Polydor in 1993. In 1996, Chris signed a solo deal with East West Records and released the singles If I Hadn't Got You (covered in 2004 by Lisa Stansfield) and Heavenly Rain followed a year later by the album, Life in a Minor Key which was co-produced by Chris and David A. Stewart at Electric Lady Studios in New York. In 2003, Chris co-wrote This Is the Night recorded by American Idol’s Clay Aiken. It debuted at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart and became the biggest US single of 2003, selling over one million copies and reaching six-times-platinum status in Canada. Aiken’s follow up single, Invisible became one of the most played songs on US radio the following year and earned Chris two ASCAP awards. Chris' song Anything is Possible earned him a prestigious Ivor Novello award having reached number one for Pop Idol winner Will Young in 2002, selling 1,108,659 copies in its first week and over 1.7 million copies in total. In January 2010, Anything is Possible was named the UK's best selling single of the decade.

The Frames

2010-06-11T16:14:31Z

Perfect Songs' catalogue of work by Glen Hansard and The Frames has been expanded and re-released with two new, deluxe CDs from Union Square Music. Fitzcarraldo and Dance The Devil albums, each adding a brace of extra, rare songs. Fitzcarraldo features classics such as Revelate and Say It To Me Now. On the strength of this album, Time Out declared them “Ireland's best band since U2”. And Hot Press reviewed Revelate as “this year’s Everybody Hurts... a stone cold classic.” Dance The Devil - with its songs Pavement Tune, God Bless Mom and Dance The Devil Back Into His Hole – was hailed as “an enthralling, chilled-out listen” by Music Week and was praised for its “shimmering greatness” by the Irish Times. The Frames were founded in 1990 by Academy Award-winning songwriter Glen Hansard. In 2006 he also formed The Swell Season with Czech singer Markéta Irglová. The pair then acted in the Irish film Once and wrote and recorded its lead song, Falling Slowly, which won a 2008 'Oscar' for Best Original Song in a Motion Picture.]]>

Frankie Catalogue Expands

2010-03-24T16:15:03Z

On 25 April 2010, ZTT via Union Square Music releases the definitive edition of a Perfect masterpiece. Relax and The Power of Love, and archive audio interviews. A bonus CD also features previously-unheard studio demos of War, Two Tribes and Welcome to the Pleasuredome, an early, eleven minute version of Ballad of 32, and a previously unheard song from the end of the Pleasuredome era, Watusi Love Juicy. These new archive treasures are added to the complete Frankie Goes To Hollywood song catalogue which is available for synchs, soundtracks and licensing from Perfect Songs.]]>

Trevor Horn's New Adventures...

2010-03-18T16:17:53Z

Trevor Horn masterpiece which brings a raft of new songs onto our catalogue.]]> For the first time on CD, ZTT is releasing the legendary 'lost' Buggles album, Adventures In Modern Recording. Originally released in 1981, its often referred to as the only 'solo' album to date by Trevor Horn. Adventures in Modern Recording (the deluxe reboot) delivers the original album remastered, plus all the B-sides and remixes of the era, and seven previously-unreleased songs. Hand-picked by Trevor, these include the beautiful We Can Fly From Here, Parts 1 and 2 (which Buggles originally wrote for Yes, and was performed on Yes' legendary Drama tour).

Paul Simm

2010-03-10T20:46:58Z

Perfect Songs is proud to represent a catalogue of more than 50 songs written and and co-written by Paul Simm. Overload (a UK #6 hit in 2000), their 2001 hit single Run For Cover (UK #13), and Siobhan Donaghy’s debut single Overrated (UK #19, 2003). As a result of his work on Overload, Paul also has a co-writing credit on Make Over, a song from Christina Aguilera's multi-million selling Stripped album. Paul's other credits include It's Not Easy (from Mutya Buena's 2007 top ten album Real Girl), Twisted Mess (recorded by Neneh Cherry for the 1999 Reese Witherspoon movie soundtrack Best Laid Plans), Hot Section (for N*SYNC's JC Chasez), Square Peg (from Beverly Knight's acclaimed 2009 album 100%) and Close to the Front (recorded and released by Amy Winehouse as the B-side to her worldwide hit, Rehab).
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Trevor Horn.com

2009-09-01T17:50:15Z

Launching today is a brand new website for producer, artist - and founder of Perfect Songs - Trevor Horn. www.trevorhorn.com to read about Trevor's latest work with Robbie Williams and Escala, and to chart his award-winning productions, songs and performances from 1977 to the present day.]]>

The Proposal synchs Relax

2009-08-18T14:18:50Z

Box office blockbuster The Proposal – starring Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds – has synched Perfect classic Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood.]]> LA Times reports, "The Proposal is just a good old-fashioned romance, one in which people actually bring out the best in one another rather than the worst. How novel is that?"

Volkswagen synchs Seal

2009-08-10T14:16:47Z

Seal's The Right Life is the soundtrack to the new Volkswagen Tiguan TV commercial. The commercial also stars the singer/songwriter and his wife Heidi Klum and has so far aired in Singapore, Slovenia, Japan, Lebanon, Dubai, Korea, Poland and China. Having spent 2009 on the road – playing live in Paris, Brussels, Montreaux and London – Seal will begin writing and recording a new album in September.

Kid Harpoon on BBC iPlayer

2009-07-27T14:55:54Z

We now have release date for Kid Harpoon's new album. ]]> Young Turks label. BBC Radio 1 played host to Kid Harpoon again recently, when he played Back from Beyond and Stealing Cars on Nick Grimshaw's show. It's availavble to listen again on the BBC iPlayer. Kid Harpoon on MySpace: www.myspace.com/kidharpoon

Kid Harpoon in Session

2009-07-16T15:36:02Z

Kid Harpoon played his summer anthem-in-waiting new single live on BBC Radio 1 this week. New Music We Trust show - was filmed as well as recorded, featured Katie Melua, Jack Penate, Seb Roachford, and you can stream it back by clicking here. ]]>

Alistair Griffin co-writes with Cascada

2009-07-01T15:46:47Z

Perfect songwriter Alistair Griffin has co-written a track on the new album by million-selling dance act Cascada. www.cascadamusic.de.]]>

Kid Harpoon is Stealing Cars

2009-05-25T10:08:35Z

Perfect singer-songwriter Kid Harpoon is about to release a whole new body of work. www.kidharpoon.net. Produced by Trevor Horn, it will be followed by a full album in September.]]>

Cold Case and Eli Stone synch Seal

2009-04-27T17:12:24Z

US prime-time drama Cold Case, which reaches its season finale next week, recently synched the classic Seal song Crazy. Crazy - and Seal's rendition of Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come - were also recently synched to Eli Stone, the comedy drama starring Jonny Lee Miller in the title role. But they weren't as soundtrack beds - Seal appeared live on stage singing A Change Is Gonna Come, and romanced two lead characters in their office singing Crazy. You can watch video excerpts of both songs on Seal's official website. ]]>

Entourage synchs Mark Morrison

2009-04-20T17:08:12Z

We've recently added an extensive biography of Mark Morrison to PerfectSongs.com. Click here to read about his career, collaborations and catalogue. Mark's classic Return of the Mack was recently synched to episode one of season five US prime-time drama Entourage. Play the video to the right to hear the song as the lead character hides out in the Fantasy Island of the episode's title.]]>