Wings of Heaven

Wings of Heaven

Infobox Album |
Name = Wings of Heaven
Type = Album
Artist = Magnum


Released = April 1988
Recorded = Wisseloord Studios Hilversum Holland 19871988
Genre = Rock Melodic Rock Progressive rock
Length = 44.07
Label = Polydor
Producer = Albert Boekholt Magnum
Reviews = *All Music Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusicguide.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:g9frxqq5ldje link]
* ProgArchives Rating|4|5 [http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=11651 link]
Last album = "Mirador" (1986)
This album = "Wings Of Heaven" (1988)
Next album = "Invasion Live" (1989)
Misc = Singles
Name = Wings of Heaven
Type = studio
single 1 = Days of No Trust
single 2 = Start Talking Love
single 3 = It Must Have Been Love
single 1 date = March 1988
single 2 date = May 1988
single 3 date = June 1988

"Wings Of Heaven" is the seventh Studio Album by British Melodic Rock band Magnum, released in 1988.

The original choice of producers for "Wings Of Heaven" was Roger Taylor and Dave Richards, who had produced "Vigilante". This wasn't realised due to conflicting schedules. Albert Boekholt was suggested at Wisseloord Studios, Holland. The album was mixed at Sarm West Studios, London in January 1988. One song was announced, "That's How The Blues Must Start" but was dropped from the album. The album is certified Silver in the UK [ [http://www.bpi.co.uk/ The Bpi ] ] for over 200,000 sales.

In November 2007 Magnum toured the UK celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the album. These shows are to be recorded for "Wings of Heaven Live" album in 2008. The entire album was played live including the song "Different Worlds" never performed by the band on the original Wings of Heaven tour in 1988.

Track listing

All Tracks written by Tony Clarkin.

#"Days Of No Trust" — 5:23
#"Wild Swan" — 6:15
#"Start Talking Love" — 3:36
#"One Step Away" — 4:39
#"It Must Have Been Love" — 5:16
#"Different Worlds" — 4:39
#"Pray For The Day" — 3:45
#"Don't Wake The Lion (Too Old To Die Young)" — 10:34
#"C'est La Vie" (Bonus track on picture disc LP)

ingles

"Days Of No Trust" 7" (March 1988)
#"Days Of No Trust" [Edit] — 0:00
#"Maybe Tonight" [B-Side] — 0:0

"Days Of No Trust" 12" (March 1988)
#"Days Of No Trust" [Edit] — 0:00
#"Maybe Tonight" [B-Side] — 0:00
#"The Spirit" [Live] — 0:00
#"Two Hearts" [Live] — 0:00
#"How Far Jerusalem" [Live] — 0:00

"Days Of No Trust" CD (March 1988)
#"Days Of No Trust" [Edit] — 0:00
#"Maybe Tonight" [B-Side] — 0:00
#"Days Of No Trust" [Extended] — 0:00
#"How Far Jerusalem" [Live] — 0:00

"Days Of No Trust" 12" Picture Disc (March 1988)
#"Days Of No Trust" [Edit] — 0:00
#"The Spirit" [Live] — 0:00
#"Two Hearts" [Live] — 0:00

"Start Talking Love" 7" (May 1988)
#"Start Talking Love" [Edit] — 0:00
#"C'est La Vie" [B-Side] — 0:00

"Start Talking Love" 12" (May 1988)
#"Start Talking Love" [Edit] — 0:00
#"C'est La Vie" [B-Side] — 0:00
#"On A Storyteller's Night" [Live] — 0:00
#"Back To Earth" [Live] — 0:00

"Start Talking Love" 10" Picture Disc (May 1988)
#"Start Talking Love" [Extended] — 0:00
#"C'est La Vie" [B-Side] — 0:00
#"Days Of No Trust" [LP Version] — 5:23

"Start Talking Love" CD (May 1988)
#"Start Talking Love" [Edit] — 0:00
#"C'est La Vie" [B-Side] — 0:00
#"Start Talking Love" [Extended] — 0:00
#"Sacred Hour" [Live] — 0:00

"It Must Have Been Love" 7" (June 1988)
#"It Must Have Been Love" [Edit] — 0:00
#"Crying Time" [B-Side] — 0:00

"It Must Have Been Love" 12" (June 1988)
#"It Must Have Been Love" [Edit] — 0:00
#"Crying Time" [B-Side] — 0:00
#"Lonely Night" [Live] — 0:00
#"Just Like An Arrow" [Live] — 0:00

"It Must Have Been Love" CD (June 1988)
#"It Must Have Been Love" [Edit] — 0:00
#"Crying Time" [B-Side] — 0:00
#"Lonely Night" [Live] — 0:00
#"The Lights Burned Out" [Live] — 0:00

The Songs

"Days Of No Trust"" “Half of this song was written in Switzerland after wed finished recording theVIGILANTEalbum at Montreux and that LP was being mixed. I still had some ideas in my head. So I started to write things down, including the original idea for the chorus.

Its pretty self-explanatory as a song and refers to a lot of different aspects of life. Theres even a knock at Magnum because on one tour (theVIGILANTEtour of late86) we used a Cadillac to travel around. We did it for the fun of it, although in a way it was also done so that people would recognise usand it worked. The line in the song that says. ‘Headlines are courted by stretch limousineswas about us!

I suppose you can read into the song a statement about the Reagan-Gorbachov talks as well, which are going to prove to be ultimately superfluous, because however many missiles the Americans and Russians agree to get rid of theyll still have hundreds of the damn things!

Its not meant to be a depressing song, nor a whole negative one. But what Im trying to say is that for Christ sake were all fooling ourselves and we just carry onLiving the same old lies’. We see on TV what goes on in the world and we never do anything about it, me included. I write a song about itbig deal!” [Clarkin, Tony (1988) Wings Of Heaven Tour Programme] — Tony Clarkin

"Wild Swan"" “This was written in England and the idea came from a TV programme that showed some birds still quite alive and even flying, yet they had crossbow bolts straight through their bodies! This gave me the idea for the song and from there I imagined a person taking the part of a swan in an almost fairy tale manner.

It really is about the search for safety, following the river down to the sea and then on to an imaginary safe place. I was thinking in video terms with this song, with a person flying over Sailsbury Plains and looking down seeing everything passing under them. In fact, there were verses that further emphasised this point, but we had to cut them because the song was too long.

It was a search for safety, the journey out to sea to discover the place where youd be safe from all the horrible things which could happen to you.

Its probably a sub-conscious follow-on fromDAYS OF NO TRUST’. In fact, a lot of the songs that I write tag on from the previous one Id done.” [Clarkin, Tony (1988) Wings Of Heaven Tour Programme] — Tony Clarkin

"Start Talking Love"" “It arose from a point when I was feeling a bit lonely for the women back home! The first part was written at home and then when we went to Wisseloord Studios in Holland to recordWINGS OF HEAVEN’, Wally, Bob and I went into a spare studio and we messed about with the basic concept of the number. Anyway, Albert Boekholt (co-producer) heard it and thought it sounded really good. But I didnt have any words for it. So I got the tune togetherand actually wrote the music for the chorus in about 20 seconds there and then! And the words for the chorus just came out, sounding really good.

Of course, now I had to write the verses. So I went back to the Amityville Horror House (the bands abode during their sojourn in Holland) and I was just sitting there with a lit candle and a glass of wine and I felt a bit lonely, slightly sorry for myself. And the verse came to me as being about separation from someone you really love.” [Clarkin, Tony (1988) Wings Of Heaven Tour Programme] — Tony Clarkin

"It Must Have Been Love"" “This was a song trying to take the opposite point of view to most rock bands when it comes to male-female relationships. Most bands go for the clichéd machbeen with this woman, been with that womanstyle. I tried to look at it from the womans angle, which was quite difficult. You get so many stupid blokes boasting about theirconquestsand nine times out of ten its just lies.

The song also suggests that women seem to be a lot stronger than men in everyday situations. They are the ones who hold families together and are the backbone, while men seem to be dreamers all the timeor at least thats my experience. We are less practical as a gender.” [Clarkin, Tony (1988) Wings Of Heaven Tour Programme] — Tony Clarkin

"Different Worlds"" “In a way its a follow-up toHow Far Jerusalem’, although it was never conceived in that fashion. Its based on something I saw whilst on holiday in the South of France.

We were staying at this unbelievable place, with a swimming pool and garden and the sun was blazingit was fantastic. Anyway we went down to Nice and we walked into an antiques market which was changing ridiculous amounts of money for this crazy stuffnothing that interested me. So we decided to go into the old town and there were people walking around draped in jewellery. Yet I literally walked on a few more yards and suddenly there was a narrow avenue which had excretia everywhere and people where lying in doorways with bottles. It was really hard to comprehend when you see the two extremes of life back to back like that.

Later on I was having something to eat in a really plush joint and this woman came up to me with a little kid and asked for money! I know these things happen all over the place but when it smacks you in the face you realise how crazy it all is.

I dont want to come across in any song, though, as a pious twerp telling everyone what they should or shouldnt be doing. Everybody knows that people shouldnt starve to death, but what is a normal bloke, who works five days a week on normal wages with his own family to support, going to do about the situation? Public opinion can achieve a certain amount, but its up to governments and those with a lot of money to make a difference. So Im always afraid of coming across as preaching in songs, because I HATE being preached at. If someone does that to me, then I turn my back and Im off. So what Im really doing is preaching to MYSELF. I know I always need constantly reminding of what goes on in the world. You can watch a programme on TV thatll make you weep, and suddenly therell be a commercial breakand you will feel a sense of relief because you want to get away from the horror of reality.” [Clarkin, Tony (1988) Wings Of Heaven Tour Programme] — Tony Clarkin

"One Step Away"" “This is rather a magical song. I just imagined some evil spirit tempting a person to come with them. Its got a Steven Spielberg feel to it. The notion of a fella being persuaded by a beautiful temptress who could do all manner of magic. But he resists and tells her that its wrong and evilstay away!

I suppose in a way it does hark back in style from my early form of writing songs. Over the past couple of albums Ive broken away from this fantasy approach, which is an easy style to write in as there are no limits put on you, because I couldnt come up with anything new to say. Mind you, its much harder to write straight-down-the-line, contemporary lyrics due to the fact that it has to be totally and utterly understandablemore obvious. But Ive enjoyed dealing with realistic subjects, although when I was writing in a magical/fantasy way to me there was always an underlying sense of reality. All my songs have been based on the real world.

As a lyricist, I probably write any set of words about 15 or 20 times in various guises, changing the odd line here and there. And even six months on, Ill notice a stupid little grammatical error that drives me up the wall but is fundamental to anyone that speaks English. Ive got a pile of papers with millions ofwrongthings onem, but usually Ill end up with just one copy of the final draft, which I give to Boband he loses them. I would love at some point to publish a book of real poetry, although I dont think my lyrics stand up as poetry, if only because in a song the damn lines have to rhyme, whereas in poetry you have more freedom to express yourself, less restrictions.” [Clarkin, Tony (1988) Wings Of Heaven Tour Programme] — Tony Clarkin

"Pray For The Day"" “I got the idea for this in Austria. We were staying at a ski lodge whilst doing a festival and was right at the top of a mountainhence the lineOn top of the world nothing breaks in’ – and one day I wend down the road and there were lots of churches, all with wrought iron crosses having black ribbons and gauze hanging off. That reminded me of visiting the Berlin Wall, because along the entire wall are crosses marking spots where people had been shot and killed trying to escape. This in turn triggered off a childhood memory of watching a TV programme that shows a kid hanging in the barbed wire, dying bit by bit. Nobody could do anything for him; hed been shot and left hanging. Eventually he died.” [Clarkin, Tony (1988) Wings Of Heaven Tour Programme] — Tony Clarkin

"Don't Wake The Lion (Too Old To Die Young)"" “The first part was written in Germany and was inspired by the bands sound engineer! One day the two of us were talking about stand-up comics and he mentioned one particular comic, whose name I forget, but was very famous in the George Formby era. Anyway, he used to say to his wife, ‘It were the day that war broke outin a broad Lancashire accent. And that triggered off the song and once I started writing the whole song just poured out. At the time, there was no tune for it, which is very unusual for me.

I wanted a song that could be looked at from both sides. Its obviously about the futility of war, an anti-war tune. But I wanted something that a German person could read and feel the same emotions as an English person.

The middle part, which is actually a separate number calledToo Old To Die Youngwas written at the SFX Hall, Dublinin a dressing room. I was thinking about myself. You know you get people saying that you should have a good time and die young, have a good looking corpse like James Dean. But Im now too old for all of that, the option doesnt exist for me anymore. I am who I am and if I depart this planet now it wont be in what I suppose some might call the rocknroll fashion.

I think weve all seen the films where the troops have goneover the topfrom the trenchesand they knew theyd all be killed. What do you do in a situation like that? Fortunately, Ive never had to face it, but its crazy from all sides. No-one wants to go to war. It starts so often with a misplaced word, and gets bigger and bigger and bigger until suddenlyone minute youre at home and the next youre fighting. Youd smack a kid across the head for letting it get out of hand THAT far. Yet adults go to the point where they want to destroy the Earth!

The actual titleDONT WAKE THE LIONmeans dont let anger get the better of you. TheLiondoesnt stand, as some might think, for Britain. It refers to theLionthat exist in every single person. Its better to keep that side of you hidden.” [Clarkin, Tony (1988) Wings Of Heaven Tour Programme] — Tony Clarkin

Personnel

*Tony ClarkinGuitar
*Bob CatleyVocals
*Wally LoweBass
*Mark StanwayKeyboards
*Mickey BarkerDrums

Additional Musicians
*Atti BauwFairlight Programmer
*The London Gospel ChoirBacking Vocals on "It Must Have Been Love"
*Max WernerBacking Vocals on "Different Worlds"

References

External links

* [http://www.magnumonline.co.uk www.magnumonline.co.uk] — Official Magnum site
* [http://lyricwiki.org/Magnum:Wings_Of_Heaven_(1988) Wings Of Heaven (1988)] — lyrics from lyricwiki.org


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