When Ronan Met Burt
Ronan has teamed up with legendary composer Burt Bacharach to record his brand new solo album, ‘When Ronan Met Burt’, set to be released on March 21st.
A long time fan of Burt’s staggering back catalogue, Ronan was thrilled to work with one of his all-time musical heroes on this very special collaboration. The Irish superstar first contacted Burtin 2010; he was ecstatic when the iconic composer and producer agreed for them to work together.
Backed by a full orchestra, the result was a spectacular album recorded by the duo earlt in 2011. All the tracks featured are classics composed by Burt over the course of his impressive fifty year career and include instantly recognisable hits such as ‘Walk On By’, ‘The Look Of Love’, ‘What The World Needs Now Is Love’ and ‘I Just Don’t Know What To Do With Myself’. All the tracks were recorded live with a full orchestra, ensuring that the grandeur and stature of these timeless classics was captured and conserved.
“It has been a dream come true to work with Burt on this album,” Ronan says of the collaboration. “I grew up listening to his songs and the tracks we’ve chosen to record for the album are simply some of the greatest pop masterpieces ever written, so it was an honour to sing them alongside the man himself.”
Speaking about the recording session Ronan said,
‘It was one of the hardest sessions I’ve done. It’s hard enough trying to do justice to such legendary tunes but to record them with the man himself was another level of pressure’.
Burt said of the process,
‘To do these songs with a different slant and approach on them made it very interesting for me. And too be able to work with Ronan and expose these songs to maybe a younger audience as well as my fan base. Then to be able to record it in the legendary Capitol recording studio – full orchestra live. Quite a trip we were on Ronan.’
‘When Ronan Met Burt’ is Ronan’s seventh solo album in the UK and is his first solo release in this country since ‘Winter Songs’.
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Dear Boyzone, just want to tell you how much my love for you is strong..so much words ,
So much emotions, i dont know where to start
i writer for you from amazing Tel-aviv, Israel
Love is sweetest emotion
That you – Ronan, Stephen, Keith, Shane and Mikey
Springs to my heart and to my life
I love to see your sweet smile
You are my first love from high school until today..
For me you are always be the first love
My dream childhood
Five boys from Dublin, Ireland that mean everything to me
You all the colors and beauty of heavens
You are my every heartbeat and my every breath
You are my first thought and the last..
You are always on my mind
You are my theme to dream
You are my always shining star
There are so many reasons to love you
And Like the roses are red and the skies are blue
My heart will always stay faithful for you
I love you more then words can say
I could spend hours with your music
And still long for time to share
I never be so close to music
Like yours music
You are the most beautiful light in my life
Keep singing..
You are doing that amazing
Your music opened my heart and awakened my soul
Steo missed by so many
And still cant to believe that he gone too sone
Evan though Steo is singing up there with angels
His voice will go on here, on the earth, forever
Boyzone,
You make things better!
I never see you in reality and
I wait so many years for a chance to see you,
Never thought that dreams came true
But I’m sure that you, boyzone, show me that they do
I sure you give me the chance of a lifetime
To see you here
Because you, boyzone, are the most important thing to me..
I hope and pray to see you soon at Holy land, Israel, and
I’m sure you too gonna love the country
All my love x
♥WANT TO SEE YOU , BOYZONE, AT ISRAEL ON YOUR TOUR NEXT YEAR 2012 AND NO MATTER WHAT !!♥
All my love x
BOYZONE, LEGENT!
ONLY WANT TO SEE YOU AT ISRAEL ON YOUR TOUR NEXT YEAR 2012 AND NO MATTER WHAT!! PLEASE NOT MISS ISRAEL NEXT YEAR.. HOPE AND PRAY TO SEE YOU SOON LEGENT..
All my love x
BOYZONE, YOU ARE LEGEND!
HOPE AND PRAY TO SEE YOU , BOYZONE, AT ISRAEL ON YOUR TOUR NEXT YEAR 2012 AND NO MATTER WHAT!
All my love x
Ronan, Stephen, Keith, Shane, Mikey – You are legend!
All my love x
Ronan, Stephen, Keith, Shane and Mikey-
Thank you for the music
About everything you do
About everything you done
About that you give me the chance to know you…
thanks.
All my love x
Don’t wanna see you crying
Just wanna see you smile, boyzone..
All my love x
Hi guys,
i’d love to see you in Brazil!Love you all so much!
Hi Ronan, I really love your new album, the songs are great, I love listening to them when writing! You sound so mature!
Love to see you and the lads in Vienna soon, has been a while since you came for a gig (99 was the last time I saw you live – wow, such a long time, that was even before the break(up))
When are Boyzone touring again? PLEASE?????????? xxxxxxx March 2012