"Stars Are Falling"
Adam Rickitt
from the single "I Breathe Again" (Polydor/UK, 1999)
Most famous for his role in the British television soap opera "Coronation Street", Adam Rickitt briefly forayed into a pop music career, recording only one album of what was supposed to have been a six-album contract. The disc, "Good Times", performed merely adequately on the UK charts (reaching #41), and only one of its three singles entered the Top Ten.
Like its three singles, most of the rest of the songs on the album are high-tempo dance-pop numbers, with a few requisite slow ballads thrown in. This song, a non-album B-side from the "I Breathe Again" single, is unusually dreamy and tranquil for an Adam Rickitt song. I've honestly never thought of his voice as any more than okay, but it sounds quite good in this track, floating on a cloud like the rest of the song.
On his official site, Adam Rickitt says he turned his back on his pop music career because it didn't make him happy, and that he found pop music "vacant and uncreative". Well, he can think what he wants of pop music, and we can appreciate the one and only album we got from him.
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