Marilyn (musician)
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Peter Robinson better known as Marilyn, is a British pop
singer
who achieved international fame in the 1980s with his hit song "Calling Your Name
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Singles
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
singer
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
who achieved international fame in the 1980s with his hit song "Calling Your Name
Calling Your Name
"Calling Your Name" was the debut single by British pop singer Marilyn. The song was a big international hit, peaking at #4 on the UK Singles Chart, #10 in Ireland, and #3 in Australia. The song was most successful in Japan, hitting the #1 spot....
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Discography
Albums- 1985 Despite Straight LinesDespite Straight LinesDespite Straight Lines is the debut album by the British singer-songwriter Marilyn, released in 1985.-Overview:Although Marilyn had scored three Top 40 hits throughout the 1983-84 period, his debut album was not released until mid-1985, 18 months after his biggest hit "Calling Your Name" was a top...
(LP/MC, MercuryMercury RecordsMercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
) (reissued on CD in 2008 as Despite Straight Lines: The Very Best Of Marilyn by Cherry Red Records)
Singles
- 1983 Calling Your NameCalling Your Name"Calling Your Name" was the debut single by British pop singer Marilyn. The song was a big international hit, peaking at #4 on the UK Singles Chart, #10 in Ireland, and #3 in Australia. The song was most successful in Japan, hitting the #1 spot....
(MercuryMercury RecordsMercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
) - 1984 Cry And Be Free (MercuryMercury RecordsMercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
) - 1984 You Don't Love Me (MercuryMercury RecordsMercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
) - 1985 Baby U Left Me (In The Cold) (MercuryMercury RecordsMercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
) - 1985 Pray For That Sunshine (MercuryMercury RecordsMercury Records is a record label operating as a standalone company in the UK and as part of the Island Def Jam Motown Music Group in the US; both are subsidiaries of Universal Music Group. There is also a Mercury Records in Australia, which is a local artist and repertoire division of Universal...
) - 1989 Sooner Or Later (Interbeat - Italian 12" release only)
- 2000 How Could I Live (Desilu Records - 12" promo)
- 2002 Spirit In The Sky (self-released CD-R promo)
- 2002 Sooner Or Later (self-released CD-R promo)
- 2003 Hold On Tight (self-released CD-R promo)
Charts
| Year | Title | Charts | ||||||
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| UK United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages... |
IE Ireland Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth... |
NL Netherlands The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders... |
POR Portugal Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the... |
DK Denmark Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark... |
AUS Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area... |
JP Japan Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south... |
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| 1985 | Despite Straight Lines | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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| 1983 | Calling Your Name | 4 | 10 | — | — | — | 3 | 1 |
| 1984 | Cry and Be Free | 31 | — | — | — | — | 17 | — |
| You Don't Love Me | 40 | — | 14 | — | — | — | — | |
| 1985 | Baby U Left Me (In the Cold) | 70 | — | — | — | — | 34 | — |
| Pray for That Sunshine | — | — | — | 47 | 52 | — | — | |