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Born on December 9, 1950, in the Caribbean, in Basseterre, St. Kitts
WEST INDIES, to be exact, Joan Armatrading moved with her family to Birmingham
in 1958 where she taught herself to play the guitar and piano. Armatrading
began her career playing small sets of her own music at local clubs as
a teenager.
While she believed her talents fell mostly in songwriting, her voice was
good enough to land her a part in the musical "Hair" in 1970;
also performing in "Hair" was lyricist Pam Nestor, another island
native, who paired with Armatrading to write music and eventually, to
record demo tapes.
The tapes were so popular that the duo signed with London's Cube label
and soon released a collaboration titled "Whatever's For Us"
in 1972; Cube, however, considered Armatrading to be the more likely star
material and the album was credited to her alone; the record was a greater
critical than commercial success and was licensed for North America by
A&M Records.
Nestor and Armatrading soon parted ways and Armatrading did not release
another album until 1975, when "Back To The Night" came out,
worldwide, on A&M.
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Whatever's For Us
(1972)
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1. My Family
2. City Girl
3. Spend A Little Time
4. Whatever's For Us
5. Child Star
6. Visionary Mountains
7. It Could Have Been Better
8. Head Of The Table
9. Mister Remember Me
10. Gave It A Try
11. Alice
12. Conversation
13. Mean Old Man
14. All The King's Gardens
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Back To The Night
(1974)
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1. No Love For Free
2. Travel So Far
3. Steppin' Out
4. Dry Land
5. Cool Blue Stole My Heart
6. Get In Touch With Jesus
7. Body To Dust
8. Back To The Night
9. So Good
10. Let's Go Dancing
11. Come When You Need Me
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Joan Armatrading
(1976)
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1. Down To Zero
2. Help Yourself
3. Water With The Wine
4. Love And Affection
5. Save Me
6. Join The Boys
7. People
8. Sombody Who Loves You
9. Like Fire
10. Tall In The Saddle
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Show Some Emotion
(1977)
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1. Woncha Come On Home
2. Show Some Emotion
3. Warm Love
4. Never Is Too Late
5. Peace In Mind
6. Opportunity
7. Mama Mercy
8. Get In The Sun
9. Willow
10. Kissin' And A Huggin'
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To The Limit
(1978)
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1. Barefoot And Pregnant
2. Your Letter
3. Am I Blue For You
4. You Rope You Tie Me
5. Baby I
6. Bottom To The Top
7. Taking My Baby Up Town
8. What Do You Want
9. Wishing
10. Let It Last
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Me Myself I
(1980)
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1. Me Myself I
2. Ma-Me-O-Beach
3. Friends
4. Is It Tomorrow Yet?
5. Turn Out The Light
6. When You Kisses Me
7. All The Way From America
8. Feeling In My Heart (For You)
9. Simon
10. I Need You
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Walk Under Ladders
(1981)
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1. I'm Lucky
2. When I Get It Right
3. Romancers
4. I Wanna Hold You
5. The Weakness In Me
6. No Love
7. At The Hop
8. I Can't Lie To Myself
9. Eating The Bear
10. Only One
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The Key
(1983)
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1. (I Love It When You) Call Me Names
2. Foolish Pride
3. Drop The Pilot
4. The Key
5. Everybody Gotta Know
6. Tell Tale
7. What Do Boys Dream
8. The Game Of Love
9. The Dealer
10. Bad Habits
11. I Love My Baby
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Secret Secrets
(1985)
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1. Persona Grata
2. Temptation
3. Moves
4. Talking To The Wall
5. Love By You
6. Thinking Man
7. Friends Not Lovers
8. One Night
9. Secret Secrets
10. Strange
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Sleight Of Hand
(1986)
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1. Kind Words (And A Real Good Heart)
2. Killing Time
3. Reach Out
4. Angel Man
5. Laurel And The Rose
6. One More Chance
7. Russian Roulette
8. Jesse
9. Figure Of Speech
10. Don Juan
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The Shouting Stage
(1988)
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1. Devil I Know
2. Living For You
3. Did I Make You Up
4. Stronger Love
5. Shouting Stage
6. Words
7. Straight Talk
8. Watch Your Step
9. All A Woman Needs
10. Dark Truths
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Hearts And Flowers
(1990)
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1. More Than One Kind Of Love
2. Hearts And Flowers
3. Promise Land
4. Someone's In The Background
5. Can't Let Go
6. Free
7. Something In The Air Tonight
8. Always
9. Good Times
10. The Power Of Dreams
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Square The Circle
(1992)
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1. True Love
2. Crazy
3. Wrapped Around Her
4. Sometimes I Don't Wanna Go Home
5. Square The Circle
6. Weak Woman
7. Can I Get Next To You
8. Can't Get Over (How I Broke Your Heart)
9. If Women Ruled The World
10. Cradled In Your Love
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What's Inside
(1995)
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1. In Your Eyes
2. Everyday Boy
3. Merchant Of Love
4. Shapes And Sizes
5. Back On The Road
6. Lost The Love
7. Songs
8. Would You Like To Dance
9. Recommend My Love
10. Beyond The Blue
11. Can't Stop Loving You
12. Shape Of A Pony
13. Trouble
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Lovers Speak
(2003)
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1. Lovers Speak
2. Physical Pain
3. In These Times
4. Waiting
5. Prove Yourself
6. Fire And Ice
7. Love Bug
8. Let's Talk About Us
9. Ocean
10. Tender Trap
11. Less Happy More Often
12. Crazy For You
13. You Made Your Bed
14. Blessed
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Into The Blues
(2007)
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1. A Woman In Love
2. Play The Blues
3. Into The Blues
4. Liza
5. Secular Songs
6. My Baby's Gone
7. D.N.A.
8. Baby Blue Eyes
9. Deep Down
10. There Ain't A Girl Alive
11. Empty Highway
12. Mama Papa
13. Something's Gotta Blow
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The section contains all of Joan Armatrading albums released to date
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