Gilbert O'Sullivan - The Best Of [3CD]

Format: 3 x CD
ICPN: 4050538853070
Release Date: 11 Nov 2022
Genre: Folk/Americana

1. Get Down
2. Matrimony
3. No Way
4. Ooh-Wakka-Doo-Wakka-Day
5. Too Much Attention
6. Ohh Baby
7. You Got Me Going
8. I Don’t Love You, But I Think I Like You
9. Stick In The Mud
10. Thunder And Lightning
11. Call On Me
12. Where Did You Go To?
13. A Friend Of Mine
14. Doing What I Know
15. Victor E
16. Let Me Know
17. Take Love (Feat. KT Tunstall)
18. Never Say Di
19. So What
20. Doesn’t It Make You Sick (Mortar and Brick)
21. Hablando del Ray de Roma
22. Say Goodbye
23. Get Down (Remix)

-2 Alone Again:
1. Alone Again (Naturally)
2. Nothing Rhymed
3. Out Of The Question
4. Why Oh Why Oh Why
5. Miss My Love Today
6. Lost A Friend
7. Dear Dream
8. I Wish I Could Cry
9. A Minute Of Your Time
10. I’ll Never Love Again
11. Houdini Said
12. Answers On A Postcard
13. Break It To Me Gently
14. What’s It All Supposed To Mean?
15. All They Wanted To Say
16. Let Bygones Be Bygones (Feat. Mick Hucknall)
17. Tomorrow Today
18. Because Of You
19. You Don’t Have To Tell Me
20. Parrish
21. Where Would We Be (Without Tea)
22. On Door Closes

CD-3 Love… Gilbert:
1. What’s In A Kiss?
2. Clair
3. No Matter How I Try
4. Who Was It?
5. We Will
6. That’s Love
7. Can I Go With You
8. I Hope You’ll Stay
9. You Are You
10. Can’t Think Straight (Duet with Peggy Lee)
11. Taking A Chance On Love
12. Can’t Get Enough Of You
13. Missing You Already
14. Happiness Is Me And You
15. The Niceness Of It All
16. I Guess I’ll Always Love You
17. That’s The Kind Of Love I Need
18. At The Very Mention Of Your Name
19. Young At Heart (We’ll Always Remain)
20. The Marriage Machine
21. That’s Why I Love You
Bonus Track:
22. Christmas Song (I’m Not Dreaming Of A White Christmas)

‘The Best Of’ is the ultimate celebration of Gilbert O’Sullivan. Curated by GOS himself, this new best of covers the stars illustrious career and includes the monumental hits ‘Alone Again (Naturally), Get Down, Matrimony and many more. It will be available on Digisleeve Triple CD and Digital Formats.

Gilbert O’Sullivan, one of the greatest singer-songwriters of his generation will return in 2022 following his extremely successful new studio album ‘Driven’ with his this incredible career spanning ‘The Best Of’.

Gilbert O’Sullivan’s unique blend of melodic craftsmanship, witty wordplay, topical acuity and surrealist humour has given him an enduring and endearing career. His song writing knack has outlived and transcended fashion, global million-sellers and critical acclaim. Now recognised as one of our great singer-songwriters, he’s been championed in recent years by everyone from Paul Weller, Nina Simone, Mick Hucknall, Squeeze’s Difford & Tilbrook, Neil Diamond to Gary Barlow (whose Crooner Sessions Gilbert duetted on earlier this year), Empire Of The Sun, Boy George and The Charlatans’ Tim Burgess whose acclaimed The Listening Party recently featured Gilbert’s Himself and Back To Front albums.

Gilbert O’Sullivan’s career has spanned 50 years. His first single success Nothing Rhymed was released in 1970 and almost overnight it achieved Top 10 status In the UK and Europe charts.

His debut album Himself was littered with the most perfect examples of his art and craftsmanship. His second 1972 “Back To Front” firmly cemented Gilbert amongst the world’s best. Top 10 singles and no. 1’s around the world including the classic “Alone Again (Naturally)” which topped the US charts for six weeks and earned him three Grammy nominations.

British recognition soon followed with the songs Clair and Get Down reaching the summit of the UK singles charts and his LP Back To Front topping the album charts. In the same year at the 18th Ivor Novello Awards Gilbert was named ‘Song Writer of the Year’. To date he has won three Ivor’s and in recent times performed alongside other artists at BBC Proms in the Park. He has also made three appearances at Glastonbury including the main stage, and toured extensively throughout the UK, Ireland, Europe, Japan and Australia.