Sacred Heart (Shakespears Sister album)

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Sacred Heart
Studio album by Shakespear's Sister
Released	1989
Recorded	1988
Genre	Pop
Length	51m 46s
Label	FFRR Records
Producer	Shakespear's Sister Richard Feldman Jimmy Iovine
Professional reviews
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Shakespear's Sister chronology
— Sacred Heart (1989) Hormonally Yours (1992)

Sacred Heart is the debut album released by US/UK pop music duo Shakespear's Sister in 1989 on FFRR Records. Five singles were released from the album in the UK. Success, however, did not come until the release of the third single "You're History", which hit number seven in the UK singles chart during the summer of 1989. "You're History" received heavy airplay on MTV Europe and Sacred Heart climbed to number nine in the UK.

The album contains thirteen pop/rock songs that incorporated electronic and funk elements. Songs ranged from guitar-driven pop-rock, such as "Heroine", to soulful ballads like the title track (which featured Londonbeat on backing vocals). The album even included a Bob Marley cover song ("Could You Be Loved").

The band's initial image focused on band member Siobhan Fahey as it was her first musical venture after leaving the successful girl group Bananarama. Fahey was featured on the album cover without her fellow bandmate Marcella Detroit. Similarly, the music videos and single covers for "Break My Heart" and "Heroine" also showed Fahey alone. Songwriting, producing duties, and vocals were shared, however, with Detroit, who also played guitar on several tracks. Detroit would later be shown in videos "Sacred Heart", "You're History", "Dirty Mind", and "Run Silent" (which was entitled "Run Silent, Run Deep" on the album) and single covers for the last three. The track "Sacred Heart" is included on the soundtrack of the 1990 film Nuns on the Run.

Sacred Heart was co-produced with Richard Feldman (Milla Jovovich, Belinda Carlisle), a friend of Fahey's then-husband David A. Stewart. Jimmy Iovine co-produced the album's biggest single "You're History".

[edit] Track listing

1. "Heroine" (Fahey/Feldman)
2. "Run Silent" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)
3. "Dirty Mind" (Fahey/Feldman)
4. "Sacred Heart" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)
5. "Heaven is in Your Arms" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)
6. "Twist the Knife" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)
7. "You're History" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman/Seymour)
8. "Break My Heart" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)
9. "Red Rocket" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)
10. "Electric Moon" (Fahey/Feldman)
11. "Primitive Love" (Fahey)
12. "Could You Be Loved" (Bob Marley)
13. "You Made Me Come to This" (Fahey/Detroit/Feldman)

[edit] Singles

• "Break My Heart"
• "Heroine"
• "You're History"
• "Run Silent"
• "Dirty Mind"

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