Edge of Winter is an album by New Zealand/Australian singer-songwriter Sharon O'Neill

Sharon O'Neill

-Albums:*1979 - This Heart This Song*1980 - Sharon O'Neill*1980 - Words*1981 - Maybe*1983 - Foreign Affairs*1983 - Smash Palace *1984 - So Far - The Best 14...

 which was released by Polydor in 1990. The album is a mature work, with its two singles "Satin Sheets" and "Poster Girl", which had little chart success. The album is O'Neill's last solo studio album of new material. All the album's songs were written by O'Neill, or co-written with guitar

Guitar

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ist/keyboardist

Keyboard instrument

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 Alan Mansfield of Dragon

Dragon (band)

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, who is also her domestic partner. O'Neil and Mansfield had written tracks for Dragon including "Young Years" for their 1989 album Bondi Road. Mansfield also produced the album.

Background

Sharon O'Neill began her career in the 1970s in New Zealand, then gained major success in Australia with the hit "Words" and the subsequent singles "How Do You Talk to Boys?" (#16, 1980), "Maybe"(#18, 1981), "Losing You"(#8, 1983), and "Power" (#23, 1984). Chart positions are for Melbourne

Melbourne

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 only.

The early 1980s proved O'Neill's most commercially successful solo period, composing and performing the soundtrack to the 1981 film "Smash Palace

Smash Palace

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", and with the Foreign Affairs album in 1983 spawning her biggest hit "Maxine" (#17, 1983 Melbourne). A legal battle with her then record company Sony caused a delay in her career. During the enforced hiatus, O'Neill wrote songs for ABC

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

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 TV series Sweet and Sour

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(1984) including the title song performed by Deborah Conway

Deborah Conway

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 (later recorded by O'Neill as In Control) and Glam to Wham.

In 1987 O'Neill returned with her next album Danced in the Fire on Polygram which featured some biographical songs about the legal wrangles with Sony. O'Neill's last solo album of new material, Edge of Winter, was released in 1990. A mature work, two singles were taken from this album, "Satin Sheets" and "Poster Girl", both of which failed to find chart success.

Tracklisting

All tracks were written by Sharon O'Neill and Alan Mansfield unless otherwise indicated.

1. "Prelude (To Edge of Winter)"
2. "Satin Sheets"
3. "In Our Dreams"
4. "Strangers Come" (Sharon O'Neill)
5. "Sunday Driving"
6. "Little One"
7. "Edge of Winter" (O'Neill)
8. "Losing You" (O'Neill)
9. "I Know You Love Me"
10. "Missing Person" (O'Neill)
11. "Poster Girl" (O'Neill)