Search - Kevin Rowland :: My Beauty

Return of the Young Soul Rebel

pollyjean86 | 04/09/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Apparantly this album sold less then 500 copies..I am at a loss to understand why, unless the public are as homophobic as the newspapers. I bought this album as a 16 year old troubled teen and it has honestly helped me through many a crisis. 'The Greatest Love Of All' allowed me to accept myself as an outsider..the coda of 'Concrete And Clay' which informs us 'You are everything to me, I love you' brought a glow to my heart, while on 'I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top', Kevin appeared to share the same world weariness as my own. Then last October my father died and Kevin's version of 'You'll Never Walk Alone' (one of my father's favourites) was there to accompany my sorrow and grief. If the great man never makes another record then he went out on a masterpiece of emotion and melancholy in equal measures and I'm sure I won't be the only one to thank him for that."

Bloody marvelous!

highland_park | UK | 06/20/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Poor confused guy! It seems he's had a hard time for a while. The inside cover has a paragraph about how Kevin came about doing these cover songs...the way he 'sings'...he REALLY expresses his true feelings. It's wonderful. You really feel for him. Starting with "The Greatest Love of all" - where you can feel he's finding/found the truth about himself. My favourite, "Concrete and Clay" - so alive..."Can't tell the bottom from the top", "This Guy's in Love", "Daydream believer", all sung in Kevins true rustic/raspy style. The album made me think, falling deep into his thoughts. What's going on in his head? What ever it is, I hope this album bought him much pleasure in making it as I do listening to it!"

Batty & Brilliant

K. John | New York, NY United States | 03/03/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Kevin Rowland is an incredibly brave man. After years of drug abuse, poverty, and a career in the dustcan, "My Beauty" was supposed to have represented a triumphant return to the music business. Unfortunately, due to his sartorial choice of the moment it turned into a regrettable laughing-stock.



The record is a spirited selection of covers, songs which Rowland claims helped him through the dark days. It is art as therapy, which doesn't always amount to good (or easy) listening, especially when the therapy sounds to have only recently begun. Particularly disturbing and disruptive is Rowland's tendency to change the lyrics to suit his 'healing' view of the world.



My Beauty allegedly sold less than 500 copies.







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