It's My Life (40th Anniversary)

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40th anniversary CD reissue of Talk Talk’s second album. Includes “It’s My Life” and “Such a Shame”. To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Talk Talk’s iconic album “It’s My Life”, it has been remastered by Matt Colton at Metropolis Studios, overseen by Talk Talk drummer Lee Harris and Charlie Hollis, son of Mark Hollis, giving the album greater depth. “It’s My Life” was originally released in February 1984 and is the band’s second album. It followed the first album “The Party’s Over”, released in 1982, which initially enjoyed moderate success in Britain, reaching No. 21 in the UK charts and also found worldwide success. By the time they wrote and recorded “It’s My Life”, the band had gone from four members to three and Simon Brenner had left the group. The album initially enjoyed considerable international success. “Such A Shame”, the album’s first single, reached the Top 10 across Europe and the album’s title track reached the global Top 40, including in the United States. Interestingly, the album and the singles from this album were largely ignored in the UK at the time, but their legacy and importance as a band have since flourished and they can count Radiohead, Blur, Elbow and St. Vincent among their fans. What did not initially catch on in the UK, the rest of the world embraced, and over time this spread to the UK, where they were eventually accepted, perhaps thanks to covers by the Eurodance groups Gigabyte and Scanner, but above all thanks to No Doubt, led by Gwen Stafani, who had huge worldwide success in 2003 with their cover of “It’s My Life”.