Record Store Day came into being in 2007 when over 700 independent stores in the USA came together to celebrate their unique culture. The UK followed suit and on 19th April 2014 will see the seventh celebration of the UK's unique independent sector. This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists across the globe make special appearances and performances. Festivities include performances, meet & greets with artists, DJ's, in store quizzes and many other events. In collaboration with #RSD we have put together a selection of some classic Lisa remixes over the years and would like you to vote on your favourite. The winning track will played out on this site on Record Store Day.
Lisa Stansfield’s new album, Seven, is her first in ten years, but she has been keeping herself busy, as she explains to Duncan Seaman for the Yorkshire Post Dear Lisa, on behalf of all of your fans around the world, we wish you an exceptional day and year ahead, filled with everything you hope for and more!
Happy Birthday from us all xxx Soul survivor Lisa Stansfield talks with Marion McMullen about singing, acting and how she finally quit smoking after more than 30 years. Amy Westlake reports for Rochdale Online: Today we pay our respects to the Godfather of 'house music' Frankie Knuckles, R.I.P 1955-20141/4/2014 Word spread late Monday about the death of the pioneering DJ who described himself as a "man of music, citizen of the universe, friend to everyone, enemy to none." Apart from the mixes he made for Lisa , here's just a small selection of his work (below) which still remain as some of the hottest dance tunes of our time: Republished with the kind permission of: Chris Jones and courtesy of "The Gay UK" Used with kind permission of Mike Shaft (Listen to the 4 part interview below) "This story all began some years earlier when I received a new 12 inch single by a group called BLUEZONE which featured a young singer called Lisa STANSFIELD. It was a fantastic dance track and one which I featured heavily on my Piccadilly Radio Soul Show, 'TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS'. Lisa's voice was and is truly wonderful and I knew she was local to Manchester so I was delighted to be able to play it on the show. After winning the Licence to set up SUNSET RADIO in Manchester, I contacted YELLOW 2 studios in Stockport to get our jingle package done. We agreed on the strap line and we had to find a vocalist. It had to be LISA STANSFIELD. I got in touch with her record company who asked Lisa if she would do it. The message came back a few weeks later and it was no. I was devastated but accepted that that was it. A couple of weeks later I was at YELLOW 2 studios working on the music. Suddenly, in walks the secretary from the studio round the corner wanting to borrow a roll of fax paper. After a couple of minutes, she said, "You'll never guess who is in our studio? No we all said in unison."Well LISA STANSFIELD is in our studio". I could not believe it, this was my chance. I wasn't sure what I was going to say to her but I went over to the other studio and there was LISA, sitting on the couch drinking a cup of tea. I introduced myself and asked her why she had refused to do our jingle package. She said that she had been told that it was a pirate radio station, and she had been advised not to do it. When I told her it was a legal station and we were going to play SOUL MUSIC on the airwaves of MANCHESTER, she said she would be delighted to sing our jingles. Six weeks later LISA arrived at YELLOW 2 to record the SUNSET jingles. I had been looking forward to this day for months. Unfortunately, a couple of days before she was due in I came down with Chicken Pox and was not able to attend the recording session. We did end up with what many believed was the best jingle package ever recorded in this country. Our strap line was 'KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE'. In the week that SUNSET went on the air, October 1989, LISA STANSFIELD had her first hit in the UK and she was riding high in the charts with the single 'ALL AROUND THE WORLD'. We were all delighted that LISA'S voice was played all day on SUNSET on our jingle package. It really could not have been any better had we planned it ourselves. Some weeks after launching SUNSET, I contacted LISA'S record company to see if she would be available to come in for a live interview with me. The message came back, YES! We had a LISA STANSFIELD DAY, playing her music all day and she came in and spent a full hour with me. It was a wonderful day and a wonderful interview. It was certainly a day that I would never forget". |
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