Will Power (album)

Will Power
Studio album by Joe Jackson
Released April 1987[1]
Recorded 1987
Genre Classical/Rock
Length 42:06
Label A&M
Producer Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson chronology
Big World
(1986)
Will Power (1987) Live 1980/86 (1988)
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Allmusic [2]

Will Power is a 1987 album by Joe Jackson.[1] It is his first experiment with classical music, continued in later albums including Night Music, Heaven and Hell, and Symphony No. 1.

In the winter of 1985, Jackson had been commissioned to write a 20 minute score for a Japanese film, Shijin No Ie (House of the Poet), and the orchestral piece was recorded with the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.[3] Jackson adapted it into "Symphony in One Movement" and added other instrumental pieces, which set the stage for things to come later.[1][3]

Track listing

All tracks composed by Joe Jackson.

  1. "No Pasaran" – 6:07
  2. "Solitude" – 9:37
  3. "Will Power" – 5:52
  4. "Nocturne" – 4:25
  5. "Symphony in One Movement" – 16:14

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References

  1. ^ a b c d Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Rock Discography (5th ed.). Edinburgh: Mojo Books. pp. 485–486. ISBN 1-84195-017-3. 
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ a b "Biography by William Ruhlmann". Allmusic.com. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p4574. Retrieved 4 May 2009.