Sacred Heart (Shakespears Sister album)

Infobox Album | | Name = Sacred Heart
Type = Album
Artist = Shakespear's Sister


Released = 1989
Recorded = 1988
Genre = Pop
Length = 51m 46s
Label = FFRR Records
Producer = Shakespear's Sister
Richard Feldman
Jimmy Iovine
Reviews = *Allmusic [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:hi8zefwkhgf6 link]
Last album = "—"
This album = "Sacred Heart"
(1989)
Next album = "Hormonally Yours"
(1992)

"Sacred Heart" is the debut album released by UK/US pop music duo Shakespear's Sister. Released in 1989 on FFRR Records, the album peaked at no.9 in the UK and was certified Gold by the BPI in October 1989 for sales of over 100,000 copies.

Four singles were released from the album in the UK, one of which was the double A-side "Heroine/Break My Heart". Success, however, did not come until the release of the next single "You're History", which hit number seven in the UK singles chart during the summer of 1989.

The album contains thirteen pop/rock songs that incorporated electronic and funk elements. Songs ranged from guitar-driven pop-rock, such as "Heroine", to soulful ballads like the title track (which featured Londonbeat on backing vocals). The album even included a Bob Marley cover song ("Could You Be Loved").

Shakespear's Sister was initially just Siobhan Fahey, and was her first musical venture after leaving the successful girl group Bananarama. Fahey was featured on the album cover without Marcella Detroit and the music videos and single covers for "Break My Heart" and "Heroine" also showed Fahey alone. However as songwriting, producing duties, and vocals were largely shared with Detroit, who also played guitar on several tracks, the outfit officially became a duo. Detroit would later be shown in the videos and on the single covers for "You're History", "Dirty Mind", and "Run Silent" (which was entitled "Run Silent, Run Deep" on the album).

The track "Sacred Heart" was included on the soundtrack of the 1990 film "Nuns on the Run".

The album was co-produced with Richard Feldman (Milla Jovovich, Belinda Carlisle), a friend of Fahey's then-husband David A. Stewart. Jimmy Iovine co-produced the album's biggest single "You're History".

Track listing

# "Heroine" (Fahey/Feldman)
# "Run Silent" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)
# "Dirty Mind" (Fahey/Feldman)
# "Sacred Heart" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)
# "Heaven is in Your Arms" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)
# "Twist the Knife" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)
# "You're History" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman/Seymour)
# "Break My Heart" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)
# "Red Rocket" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)
# "Electric Moon" (Fahey/Feldman)
# "Primitive Love" (Fahey)
# "Could You Be Loved" (Bob Marley)
# "You Made Me Come to This" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)

ingles

* "Break My Heart"
* "Heroine"
* "You're History"
* "Run Silent"
* "Dirty Mind"