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| Chronicles | 
 enlarge | Artist: Steve Winwood
Label: Universal / Island
Category: Music
List Price: £8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 4211
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 55 minutes
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 842364
UPC: 042284236423
EAN: 0042284236423
ASIN: B000001FSW
Release Date: October 21, 1987
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| Tracks:
| • | Wake Me Up On Judgement Day | | • | While You See A Chance | | • | Vacant Chair | | • | Help Me Angel | | • | My Love's Leavin' | | • | Valerie | | • | Arc Of A Diver | | • | Higher Love | | • | Spanish Dancer | | • | Talking Back To The Night |
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| Customer Reviews:
Good Compilation of a Great Singer August 14, 2008
This CD may be a bit miserable with the running time, but it's better to have ten good tracks rather than fifteen middling ones.
It has most of Winwood's better known songs, such as While You See a Chance and Arc of a Diver, so it's a good introduction to his music.In any case there are only two or three Winwood compilations available and the other one has material from his Spencer Davis and Traffic days.
The only drawback to this CD is the sound, which is somewhat muddy and transferred at a very low level.
 Winwood in the 80s July 20, 2008
This album, issued in 1987, is a selection from the final three of Winwood's Island albums. As always, his voice (and what a voice) shines through, but I found two disappointments:
-This is very much an Eighties album. All credit to Winwood for his effortless absorption of the new styles and technologies, but for older fans it lacks the magic of his Traffic and Spencer Davis days. It is disconcerting to hear brief apparent echoes of, among others, Spandau Ballet and Howard Jones. (However he has a subtler and more polished take on the Eighties genre than many of the decade's new artists.) The second half becomes more original, with "Spanish Dancer" closest to the laid-back groove of the Traffic era.
-The title track from "Back in the High Life" is missing. This is one of his best, and best-known, 80s tracks. There is no sense and no reason in the exclusion.
A fine artist, but reluctantly I have to give this only three stars, in view of the 80s influence and the omission of "Back in the High Life".
A good introduction March 24, 2008
Mostly excellent taster of Stevie's 70s & 80s stuff. Worth getting if you don't have the original albums.
 Good introduction to one of Britain's legendary rock singers September 21, 2000
43 out of 44 found this review helpful
This compilation from Steve Winwood's first four solo albums on Island Records was issued in 1987 to capitalise on his success the previous year with 'Back in the high life'. It includes the memorable 'Vacant chair', from his first solo album (in 1977) and three tracks from each of the subsequent albums before he changed record labels after hitting the big time with 'High life'. Winwood's urgent, soulful vocals are instantly recognisable, and the songs chosen here are all excellent examples of his style. His distinctive organ and synthesizer soloing is also well in evidence. Interestingly, the three selections from the 'Talking back to the night' album have been specially remixed by Tom Lord-Alge, who mixed the immensely successful 'High life' album, and as a result they have a more powerful, commercial sound than the original versions.The album runs to 55 minutes and only 10 (albeit long) tracks, and it's a pity that more songs were not included. It can't be described as a 'Greatest hits' because there are only really three hit singles on it ('While you see a chance', 'Higher love' and 'Valerie') so this would have been an ideal opportunity to include perhaps an extra track from each of the four albums. However, it gives a good overview of the first 10 years of solo recording by one of Britain's most respected R&B vocalists.
A compulsory Best of Album January 15, 2000
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
An all round excellent album, even the 20yrs old tracks become catchy after listening to the under-rated hit singles
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