Key to My Life: Collection
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Key to My Life: The Collection is a compilation album released by Irish Boyband, Boyzone
. The album contains material recorded between 1994–1999, and was released on January 30, 2006 by Universal.
Boyzone
Boyzone are an Irish boy band comprising Keith Duffy, Mikey Graham, Ronan Keating,Shane Lynch, and formerly Stephen Gately. Boyzone have 19 singles in the top 40 UK charts and 21 singles in the Ire charts. The group currently have 6 UK number one singles and 9 number one singles in Ireland with 12...
. The album contains material recorded between 1994–1999, and was released on January 30, 2006 by Universal.
Tracklisting
- Key to My LifeKey to My LifeKey to My Life is the third single from Irish Boyband Boyzone. The single was taken from the band's debut album, Said and Done. "Key to My Life" saw success, reaching #3 on the UK Singles Chart...
- 3:44 - Will Be Yours - 3:37
- Love Me for a ReasonLove Me for a Reason"Love Me for a Reason" is a song by The Osmonds, and released in 1974. Twenty years later, Boyzone covered the song. Both versions were successful, reaching the top ten of the charts in many countries.-Original song:...
- 3:38 - One Kiss at a Time - 4:05
- This Is Where I Belong - 5:25
- No Matter WhatNo Matter What (Boyzone song)"No Matter What" is a song from the 1996 musical Whistle Down the Wind, written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman and popularized by the group Boyzone. The song reached #1 on the UK Singles Chart, and was the only Boyzone hit to become popular in the U.S. Jewels & Stone did a remix for the...
- 4:33 - I'm Learning - 3:41
- So GoodSo Good"So Good" is a song by Rachel Stevens, released as a single in the United Kingdom on 4 July 2005. It was the second single from Steven's second album, Come and Get It...
- 3:02 - Can't Stop Me - 3:03
- Believe in Me - 3:44
- While the World Is Going Crazy - 5:09
- When the Going Gets ToughWhen the Going Gets ToughWhen the Going Gets Tough may refer to:* "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going", a 1985 song by Billy Ocean* "When the Going Gets Tough", a 1999 Boyzone cover of the Billy Ocean song, from By Request...
- 3:36 - When All Is Said & Done - 3:04
- You Needed MeYou Needed Me"You Needed Me" became the second single for Irish Boyband Boyzone from their album By Request. The single became number #1 on the UK Singles Chart, beating the debut solo single of Spice Girl Geri Halliwell, outselling her by just 700 copies...
- 3:30
Credits
- Boyzone – Vocals
- Mike Mangini – GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
, ProducerRecord producerA record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music... - James McNally – AccordionAccordionThe accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....
, WhistleWhistleA whistle or call is a simple aerophone, an instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. It may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means... - Ann Morfee – ViolinViolinThe violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
- Steve Morris – Violin
- Tessa Niles – Background Vocals
- Graeme Perkins – OrganizerOrganizerOrganizer could refer to:*Union organizer, a trade union official*Party organizer, a political party official*Community organizing, a way of building democratic power for the powerless*Personal organizer, a type of diary...
- Audrey Riley – CelloCelloThe cello is a bowed string instrument with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is a member of the violin family of musical instruments, which also includes the violin, viola, and double bass. Old forms of the instrument in the Baroque era are baryton and viol .A person who plays a cello is...
- Trevor Steel – Programming, Producer
- Miriam Stockley – Background Vocals
- Carl Sturken – ArrangerArrangementThe American Federation of Musicians defines arranging as "the art of preparing and adapting an already written composition for presentation in other than its original form. An arrangement may include reharmonization, paraphrasing, and/or development of a composition, so that it fully represents...
, Producer - Philip Todd – SaxophoneSaxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
- Peter-John VettesePeter-John VettesePeter-John Vettese , also known as Peter Vettese, is a British keyboardist, songwriter, arranger and record producer....
– KeyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... - Warren Wiebe – Background Vocals
- Gavyn Wright – String DirectorMusic directorA music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...
- Nigel Wright – Keyboards, Producer
- Guy Baker – TrumpetTrumpetThe trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
- Clare Finnimore – ViolaViolaThe viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...
- Matt Howe – Mix engineerMix engineerA mix engineer, also referred to as "mixing engineer", is a person who, once all instruments, voices, and sounds, etc., have been recorded, creates what is called the final version of a song, hence the term "mix engineer"...
- Gillian Kent – Violin
- Michael Hart Thompson – Guitar
- Jeremy Wheatley – Mix engineer
- Andy Caine – Background Vocals
- Clare Thompson – Violin
- Bruce White – Viola
- John Matthews – Background Vocals
- Andy Earl – PhotographyPhotographyPhotography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
- Alex Black – Assistant EngineerAudio engineeringAn audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
- Tim Willis – Assistant Engineer
- Ben Allen – Guitar
- John R. Angier – Keyboards
- Emma Black – Cello
- Deborah Widdup – Violin
- Nastee – DJDisc jockeyA disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
- Anna Hemery – Violin
- Wayne Hector – Background Vocals, Vocal Arrangement
- Yvonne John Lewis – Background Vocals
- Absolute – Producer, Mix engineer
- Richard George – Violin
- Skoti-Alain Elliot – BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, Programming, Track Engineer - Laura Melhuish – Violin
- Orla Quirke – DesignDesignDesign as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
, Direction - Jim Steinman – Producer, Executive Producer
- Paul Martin – Viola
- Tracie Ackerman – Background Vocals
- Tom Lord-Alge – Mix engineer
- Andy Bradfield – Remixing
- Nick Cooper – Cello
- Ian Curnow – Producer
- Danny G. – Keyboards
- Sue Dench – Viola
- Andy Duncan – DrumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s - Simon Franglen – Keyboards, Engineer, Programming
- Scott Gordon – Vocal Engineer
- Mark Hudson – Vocal Arrangement, Vocal Producer
- Eric Lijestrand – Digital Editing
- Steve Lipson – Bass, Producer, Programming, MandolinMandolinA mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...