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''Writing on the Wall'' is an album by British pop group Bucks Fizz.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Guitarist's website with song clips and info )〕 It was released in 1986 and featured the comeback top ten single "New Beginning (Mamba Seyra)". It was the first album to feature member Shelley Preston and their only album released on Polydor Records. Despite the album being initially unsuccessful in the charts, it went on to be re-released twice - first in 2004 and again in 2012, both times with different track listings. It remains the group's final studio album. ==Overview== ''Writing on the Wall'' was a significant album in the Bucks Fizz catalogue for many reasons. Apart from being their final studio album, it was also the only one to feature newly recruited member Shelley Preston, who had replaced Jay Aston a year before. It was also their first album on a different record label — Polydor — after their 5-year contract with RCA had finished. Despite this, the album contained three of its ten songs from the RCA days. These being the first two singles, "You and Your Heart so Blue" and "Magical", along with a remix of "I Hear Talk", which was featured on their 1984 album of the same name, but included here as it had since become a big hit in the clubs in both the UK and US.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Guitarist's website - "I Hear Talk" )〕 The biggest selling point of the album was the top ten comeback hit "New Beginning (Mamba Seyra)", released in May 1986. The song become their first big hit in some time and received some of their biggest critical acclaim.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= "New Beginning" UK Chart details )〕 The group elected to release a cover version as the follow-up — a reworking of Stephen Stills' "Love the One You're With". The song stalled outside the top 40 and the next single, "Keep Each Other Warm", also failed to sell well.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= "Love the One You're With" UK Chart details )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= "Keep Each Other Warm" UK Chart details )〕 The album, released in November 1986, could not sustain the comeback success of the "New Beginning" single and, despite positive reviews, didn't make a great impression on the charts. Because of this, a planned early 1987 single release of "Love in a World Gone Mad" was shelved. On original release, the album was issued on Vinyl, Cassette and Compact disc all with slightly varied tracklistings. The Cassette version boasted a whole side of extended remixes (cramming nine of the vinyl's ten songs on side one), while the Compact disc version contained a new song "Give a Little Love" in favour of the "I Hear Talk" extended mix. The album was re-issued on CD in 2004 with a very different tracklisting, featuring 1986-only tracks. Between 2004 and 2008, alternate versions of the tracks "New Beginning", "You and Your Heart So Blue", "Magical", "Keep Each Other Warm", "Love the One You're With" and "Love in a World Gone Mad" have been released on various Bucks Fizz compilations. The album was re-released yet again on CD in April 2012. This time as an "Ultimate edition" 2-CD set. The first CD follows closely to the 2004 tracklisting, but with remastered sound (the 2004 edition had received fan criticism at the low bass sound), while the second CD featured the third volume of ''The Lost Masters'' albums.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Bucks Fizz to release Writing on the Wall )〕 "Love in a World Gone Mad" was covered by ABBA singer Agnetha Fältskog on her 1987 album ''I Stand Alone''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Writing on the Wall (Bucks Fizz album)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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