A character in an Armatrading song you sense lives most of their life in their own head, shy ears pressed to walls, perpetually dreaming whilst life’s clock runs down unnoticed.

Armatrading was awarded an MBE by the Queen in 2001 and a CBE in 2020, the year she also received the Lifetime Achievement honor from Woman Of The Year Awards. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Since the release of her debut album Whatever’s For Us in 1972, Joan Armatrading has traversed styles and genres to create a monumental body of work. Selected and arranged by the author, and featuring a foreword by revered record producer Glyn Johns, The Weakness In Me presents the lyrics of Joan Armatrading for the first time in one unique volume. The run of her first albums from ‘whatever for us’ to her self-titled album in 1976 were created in turbulent times in Britain, perfect surroundings for pop, rock and folk musicians to re-energise themselves creatively.

He has been a professional journalist since 1999 and has very possibly written about women in music more than any male journalist in America.For more details, please consult the latest information provided by Royal Mail's International Incident Bulletin.

Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. In 2020 she received the Ivors Academy Fellowship Award, their highest accolade, and in 2021 was awarded an AIM Award for her contribution to music. One can imagine he danced and smiled through a great deal of performances around this time, his patience tested by well meaning musical artists moved by but not fully comprehending him. She is a three-time Grammy Award nominee and has been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. Selected and arranged by the author, and featuring a foreword by revered record producer Glyn Johns, The Weakness In Me presents the lyrics of Armatrading for the first time in one unique volume.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. With her poignant, piercing lyrics, embodied in the indelible song “The Weakness In Me,” she opened a sonic world of emotional intelligence and empathy. This time around, we discussed everything from Consequences to the COVID pandemic to some of her older classics.