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Mark E Nevin
8+ albums
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The artist records as Mark Nevin. Mark Nevin by Mark Nevin..... It's been so long since the olden days when I was on Top of the Pops prancing around with Fairground Attraction. That year we won awards for the best single (Perfect) and best album (The First of a Million Kisses) on the worst TV show ever (the 1989 Brit Awards with Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood) before, like all good groups, we fell out when the royalties came in. I had all these songs that were supposed to be our second album, so my good friend Brian Kennedy and me became Sweetmouth and made Goodbye to Songtown. After that I got a call from Morrissey, “send me some music” he said, I sent it, we recorded an album (Kill Uncle ) and a bit (Your Arsenal ) and four singles (Our Frank, Sing Your Life, My Love Life, Pregnant For The Last Time). Kirsty MacColl, my old mate from way back yonder, got back in touch and we wrote the story of our lives falling to pieces (Titanic Days). I was popular back then, all sorts of people asked me to write songs for them or with them. The brilliant Carleen Anderson and I wrote a song called Let it Last, I wrote songs with cowboys in Nashville and recorded Love Ruins Everything with Lloyd Cole in New York. I wrote a song with Carole King (!) - David Bowie covered 'I Know It's Gonna Happen Someday' (a song I wrote with Morrissey) - I even had George Martin conducting the orchestra on ‘I’m Yours’ a song I wrote with Ringo Starr. But that’s all over now, back in 1999, my publisher told