"Real Late Starter" is the first single from Nerina Pallot

Nerina Pallot

Nerina Pallot is a platinum selling, BRIT Award and Ivor Novello Award nominated British singer and songwriter. Although born in London, Pallot was brought up in Jersey to a half-French father and mother from Allahabad, India.-Early life:Pallot played piano as a child and wrote her first song...

's third album, The Graduate

The Graduate (Nerina Pallot album)

-Background and production:The album was released more than three years after the gold-selling Fires and marks a change in the musical genre for Pallot. According to her biography on her official MySpace page: "The Graduate has piano-driven songs high on happy pills, woozy electronics and beefed up...

. The single was released as a three-track digital download and as well as an exclusive 7" vinyl, only available on Nerina's website in the UK on October 19, 2009. after the release of the album, with a cover of Steely Dan

Steely Dan

Steely Dan is an American rock band; its core members are Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. The band's popularity peaked in the late 1970s, with the release of seven albums blending elements of jazz, rock, funk, R&B, and pop...

's "Peg

Peg (song)

"Peg" is a song by rock group Steely Dan that was released as a single from their 1977 album Aja. In G Major, it, like many Steely Dan songs from the period, blends rock with jazz and R&B elements. The song became a big hit in 1978....

" and an acoustic version of "My Last Tango" (from Dear Frustrated Superstar

Dear Frustrated Superstar

Dear Frustrated Superstar is the debut album by Nerina Pallot. Following its release in August 2001, the album peaked at UK #82, but officially did not chart as the official UK Albums Chart lists only the Top 75 sellers....

) as the B-sides. The song was witten and produced by Nerina Pallot, mixed by Andy Chatterley and mastered at Blue Pro Mastering. Real Late Starter was A-Playlisted in the UK by BBC Radio 2. It did not reach the Official UK top 40 on release, but did reach #19 in the Indie Singles chart. The song was covered by Joe McElderry

Joe McElderry

Joseph "Joe" McElderry is an English singer and model. He won the sixth series of the ITV show The X Factor in 2009. His first single "The Climb" reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and Irish Singles Charts. He was also crowned the winner of the second series of Popstar to Operastar, two...

 in 2010 and is featured on his debut album Wide Awake. Pallot's backing vocals remained on McElderry's version.

Track listings

Digital download

1. "Real Late Starter" (We Are The Chatterleys Mix)
2. "Peg
   Peg (song)
   "Peg" is a song by rock group Steely Dan that was released as a single from their 1977 album Aja. In G Major, it, like many Steely Dan songs from the period, blends rock with jazz and R&B elements. The song became a big hit in 1978....
   
   "
3. "My Last Tango (Acoustic)"

Charts

Year	Chart	Position
2009	UK Indie Chart UK Indie Chart The UK Independent Chart or Indie Chart is a chart of the best-selling independent record releases in the UK.- History :In the wake of punk, small record labels began to spring up, as an outlet for artists that were unwilling to sign contracts with major record companies, or were not considered...	19