Me Myself I is an album by Joan Armatrading

Joan Armatrading

Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, MBE is a British singer, songwriter and guitarist. Armatrading is a three-time Grammy Award-nominee and has been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist...

. Released in 1980, the album was Armatrading's highest ever chart placing both in the UK (no.5) and in the US (no.28). It was certified "Gold" in the UK by the BPI

British Phonographic Industry

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 in July 1980.

The title track

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 also became one of her most successful singles

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, peaking at no.21 in the UK. It was also used in the soundtrack of an Australian movie of the same title

Me Myself I (film)

Me Myself I is a 2000 Australian comedy film.-Plot:Pamela Drury is single and works as a serious journalist. She spends her birthday alone and becomes lonely and reflects upon her life and the choices she made. In a box of photos of old boyfriends, she reflects upon why she broke up with one in...

 made in 1999.

Track listing

All tracks written by Joan Armatrading

1. "Me Myself I" *
2. "Ma-Me-O Beach"
3. "Friends"
4. "Is It Tomorrow Yet"
5. "Turn out the Light"
6. "When You Kisses Me"
7. "All the Way from America" *
8. "Feeling in My Heart (for You)"
9. "Simon"
10. "I Need You"

(*released as singles)

Personnel

• Joan Armatrading – acoustic guitar
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  , vocals
• Chris Spedding
  Chris Spedding
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   – guitar
• Hiram Bullock
  Hiram Bullock
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   – guitar
• Ricky Hirsh – guitar
• Danny Federici
  Danny Federici
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   – organ
• Paul Shaffer
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   – piano
• Clifford Carter
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   – piano
• Phillip St John – piano
• Tom Sowell - synthesiser
• Clarence Clemons
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   – saxophone
• Will Lee
  Will Lee (bassist)
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   – bass
• Marcus Miller
  Marcus Miller
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   – bass
• Anton Fig
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   – drums
• George Kerr, Sammy Turner - background vocals on "Turn Out The Light"
• Thom Panunzio
  Thom Panunzio
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  - engineer