Music and Recording
The album includes a duet with the German singer Nico, titled "Your Kisses Burn", which was recorded shortly before her death. Almond also duets with Agnes Bernelle on the track "Kept Boy", and also with U.S. singer Gene Pitney as they perform Pitney's 1967 hit "Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart". This version became a UK number one hit in early 1989 and was the sixth best-selling single of that year.
Original CD and LP editions of the album did not feature Almond's duet with Gene Pitney on "Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart". After the success of the single the duet was appended to CD versions and appeared in-place of the original solo version on some LP versions.
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