Dare To Love (Remastered & Expanded) Jimmy Somerville

• 1 Heartbeat (2025 Remaster) 04:27
• 2 Hurt So Good (2025 Remaster) 03:54
• 3 Cry (2025 Remaster) 03:48
• 4 Lovething (2025 Remaster) 04:34
• 5 By Your Side (2025 Remaster) 04:49
• 6 Dare To Love (2025 Remaster) 04:01
• 7 Someday We'll Be Together (2025 Remaster) 03:37
• 8 Alright (2025 Remaster) 04:30
• 9 Too Much Of A Good Thing (2025 Remaster) 04:14
• 10 A Dream Gone Wrong (2025 Remaster) 05:10
• 11 Come Lately (2025 Remaster) 03:22
• 12 Safe In These Arms (2025 Remaster) 04:39
• 13 Because Of Him (2025 Remaster) 03:21
• 14 Nature Boy 03:47
• 15 Up And Away 03:15
• 16 Telling Lies 03:57
• 17 Step Inside 04:02
• 18 Nothing Said, Nothing Done 04:30
• 19 Been So Long (Remix) 04:29
• 20 Do You Wanna Funk? 07:44
• 21 Heartbeat (Biff 12" Remix) 11:30
• 22 Safe (DJ Tonka 12") 08:04
• 23 By Your Side (Miss You Like Crazy Mix) 07:37
• 24 Heartbeat (E-Smoove Downtown Underground) 06:33
• 25 Hurt So Good (12" Beatmasters Lovers Mix) 04:27
• 26 Love You Forever (Remix) 05:14
• 27 Heartbeat II 06:33
• 28 Safe In These Arms (Todd Terry 7") 03:50
• 29 Hurt So Good (Sly & Robbie Remix) 04:18
• 30 By Your Side (Stripped Mix) 05:12
• 31 Because Of Him (Celtic Version) 03:15
• Total Runtime 02:32:43

Info for Dare To Love (Remastered & Expanded)

Originally released in June 1995, Dare To Love embodies Somerville’s gift for marrying political conviction with irresistible melodies. Produced by Stephen Hague and other longtime collaborators, the album traverses bass-laden house grooves, slower, dubby reggae numbers, and classic pop ballads.

Exploring love, loss and identity, both on and off the dancefloor, the album includes the UK Top 30 hits Heartbeat (which reached No.1 on the US Dance Singles chart, the only No.1 for Jimmy on a US chart as a solo artist) and Hurt So Good, along with the poignant Safe In These Arms.

“By the time of Dare To Love, I was falling madly in love with Robert. At the same time my best friend Hugo, who I had lived with for so many years, was in the process of dying from various AIDS-related illnesses. He had made a conscious choice that rather than going with AZT and all of that hardcore toxic medication, he wanted to maintain his quality of life and be able to do the things he wanted, knowing he would die in the process. So I was dealing with that. I was part of this process of death, but at the same time I was falling madly in love. So Dare To Love is a crossover of emotions, of life and death and the two extremes of love.

After 30 years, Dare To Love resonates as powerfully as ever as a statement of pride, passion, and pop brilliance, carried by one of the most unmistakable voices in modern music.

“This is the 30th anniversary of Dare To Love and it’s just so exciting that we finally have a sleeve that is as it should have been. I always had to compromise with London Records over something, and this was one I deeply regretted. The irony is that London Records thought this photo was too gay, but I now chuckle to myself as I can see their point of view – it’s homoerotic and not nice, non-controversial gay… which I have never been!” (Jimmy Somerville)

Jimmy Somerville, vocals
Carol Kenyon, backing vocals (tracks 1, 8, 13)
Chyna Gordon, backing vocals (tracks 6, 10, 12)
Geoffrey Williams, backing vocals (tracks 1, 3, 7, 8, 13)
Matthew David, backing vocals (tracks 2-4, 7, 9)
Paul Lewis, backing vocals (tracks 1-4, 6, 9, 10, 12)
Phil Spalding, bass (tracks 1, 6-8, 10, 12, 13)
Jeremy Meehan, bass (track 3)
Andy Duncan, drums (tracks 6 to 8, 12, 13), percussion (tracks 1-4, 10, 12)
David Beebe, drums (tracks 2, 3, 10)
Gary Butcher, guitar (tracks 3, 6, 8, 10, 12)
Glenn Nightingale, guitar (track 2)
The Kick Horns (tracks 2, 9, 11)
J. J. Nash, keyboards (tracks 6, 7, 10, 12)
Jonn Savannah, keyboards (tracks 2, 3, 8)
Flash, guitar, bass (track 2)
Victor Johnson, guitar, bass (track 11)
Sally Herbert, violin (track 13)
Audrey Riley, strings (track 3)
Chris Pitsillides, strings (track 3)
Leo Payne, strings (track 3)
Sally Fenton, strings (track 3)
Sian Bell, strings (track 5)
Sonia Slany, strings (track 5)
Chris Tombling, strings (track 7)
Jayne Harris, strings (track 7)
Leo Payne, strings (track 7)

Digitally remastered

Jimmy Somerville
(b. June 22, 1961) is a Scottish pop singer. Was a star in the 80's with Bronski Beat and The Communards as well as while working solo.Born and raised in Glasgow with his signature falsetto singing style, he happens to also be a left-wing human rights activist.

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