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You Had Me From Hello

This Guy's In Love With You

What Are You Doing The Rest Of your Life

Time In A Bottle

She Makes my day

You've Changed

What Makes You Stay

God Give Me Strength

Didn't We

I Wish You Love

I Wish I Were In Love Again

Me and My Shadow (duet with Antonio Banderas)

Read what Michael had to say about the album:

The idea for this album came from my experience performing my one man show "alone together" at the Donmar Warehouse in 2001. In it I tried to tell the story of a performer's life, his relationships with lovers and family, his audience, his work, God and himself, through the medium of contemporary music. It was the sound track to a life and it got me thinking about what I wanted my next recording to be about. I hit on the idea of trying to tell the story of a doomed love affair using the same vocabulary.

This isn't the story of a specific relationship but there are no emotions that these songs express that I don't have direct experience of and, not surprisingly, so do the vast majority of people who have ever been in love.

The challenge was finding the right songs to fit the story and the joy and frustration was wading through the huge catalogues of music that detail all the different aspects of love. Help came from literally everyone who crossed my path during this time. Nobody escaped being cross examined about what was "their song" or which lyric made them remember a specific moment in their relationship and I must thank all the friends, family and co-workers who endured this process with such enthusiasm, good grace, and patience. But in the end, the final decisions on what songs would be best tell this story are mine and I am prepared to take all the blame.

The actual process of making this record, once we had fixed on the music, has been one of the happiest, most creative and exhilarating experiences of my recording career. I have been given the complete freedom to make the record I wanted to make by the great team at EMI and that is a rare act of faith these days, so thank you Mike, Teresa, Steve P., Steve D., Peter, Debbie et al and I look forward to a long and happy future together making good music.

Thank you to Simon Franglen for making what I heard in my head a reality. You have fuided us all brilliantly. Together with Andy, Jon, Pike, Olga and everyone at Air Lyndhurst, we have made something to be proud of and had a great time doing it.... and Marc, you "greased the wheels" magnificently. Thank you to all the great musicians listed herein under the guidance of Simon Hale for working so hard and making me laugh so much, expecially Ralph, Frizzy and Steve.

Thank you Gavin, Ivan, Jeanette, Norman, Patrick, Callum, Michelle, Rachel, Alex and expecially Jonathan for your inspiration and perspiration.