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PP Arnold: Soul Survivor – A Life In Song vinyl and CD boxsets

PP Arnold: Soul Survivor - A Life In Song vinyl and CD boxsets
PP Arnold: Soul Survivor – A Life In Song vinyl and CD boxsets (image credit: Amazon)
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Celebrating over 50 years of making music, the PP Arnold: Soul Survivor – A Life In Song vinyl and CD boxsets are available to pre-order.

The vinyl and CD sets are out early in 2025 and designed to be a companion piece to her amazing memoir of the same name. If you haven’t got that, you can pick it up as a deal at Amazon right now. If you have got it, have a look at this, as it pretty much covers all of PP Arnold’s output over the decades.

Soul Survivor – A Life In Song is the first collection dedicated to her extraordinary body of work. Compiled by the artist, it is being released on a 57 song 3CD set, and 25 song 2LP set, both formats housed in a sleeve created by photographer (and close friend) Gered Mankowitz, with extensive new sleeve notes by author Jude Rogers.

Alongside key singles and album tracks, it includes previously unreleased recordings, demo versions, live performances, and some rare mixes that are being reissued for the very first time.

From her early days at Andrew Loog Oldham’s Immediate label (where she ‘became one of us’, according to Andrew) her allies, associates, and working partners have included the Small Faces, Cat Stevens, Mick Jagger, Barry Gibb, Eric Clapton, Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Blockheads’ Chaz Jankel, Roger Waters, Ocean Colour Scene, The Blow Monkeys’ Dr. Robert, and Paul Weller.

From her contributions to the soundtrack of “swinging” ’60s London, deeper Soul sounds that closed the decade, musical theatre, film soundtracks, adding some Soul authenticity to the ’80s Dance scene, Pop, Rock, and Folk – there’s pretty much everything here.

PP Arnold: Soul Survivor - A Life In Song vinyl and CD boxsets
(image credit: Amazon)

 

It all started at the age of 17 when she joined Ike and Tina Turner as an ‘Ikette’, beginning an eventful journey that brought her to the UK, where her 1968 debut album was given the appropriate title ‘The First Lady Of Immediate’. Her backing bands included current or future members of the Rolling Stones, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Yes. In 1969, she began working with Barry Gibb, though the album they made together took 50 years to see the light of day. The following decade saw her became a hugely in-demand backing vocalist – Nick Drake’s ‘Poor Boy’, Peter Gabriel’s ‘Sledgehammer’, and The KLF’s ‘What Time Is Love?’ are among the many great songs she has appeared on since then. Her work with Andrew Lloyd Webber saw her contribute to the original recording of Jesus Christ Superstar and take to the West End stage (on roller skates) in Starlight Express.

In 2022, she told her life story in her critically acclaimed autobiography Soul Survivor, which now has a soundtrack.

Both sets are available to pre-order, ahead of the 21st February 2025 release date. The vinyl set is £30.99, with the CD price still to be confirmed, but likely to be around £27.

PP Arnold: Soul Survivor vinyl set at Amazon

PP Arnold: Soul Survivor CD boxset at Amazon

PP Arnold: Soul Survivor - A Life In Song vinyl and CD boxsets
(image credit: Amazon)

Tracklistings:

Soul Survivor – A Life In Song (CD set)

Disc 1
1. (If You Think You’re) Groovy
2. Am I Still Dreaming
3. Though It Hurts Me Badly
4. The First Cut Is The Deepest
5. Everything Is Gonna Be Alright
6. The Time Has Come
7. Treat Me Like A Lady
8. Come Home Baby – Rod Stewart & P.P. Arnold
9. God Only Knows
10. Eleanor Rigby
11. Angel Of The Morning
12. It’ll Never Happen Again
13. To Love Somebody
14. Is That What I Get For Loving You
15. A Likely Piece Of Work
16. May The Winds Blow
17. Medicated Goo
18. If This Were My World
19. Spinning Wheel
20. Bury Me Down By The River
21. Children Of The Last War
22. You’ve Made Me So Very Happy
23. You Can’t Always Get What You Want

Disc 2
1. Will You Love Me Tomorrow – Andy Gibb with P.P. Arnold
2. Belle The Sleeping Car – Andrew Lloyd Webber, “Starlight Express” Original Cast, P.P. Arnold
3. Electric Dreams (International Dateline Mix)
4. A Little Pain (Extended Version)
5. Smile
6. Supergrass
7. This House Is Haunted
8. Leave Right Now – Pressure Point and P.P. Arnold
9. Burn It Up (7-inch Edit) – The Beatmasters with P.P. Arnold
10. Make Me Feel – The Beatmasters with P.P. Arnold
11. Dynamite (Radio Mix Two)
12. The Human Heart
13. Salobreña
14. Take Me To The Top
15. God In U, God In Me
16. Which Side You On?

Disc 3
1. Perfect Sense Part 1 – Roger Waters feat. P.P. Arnold
2. I Believe
3. It’s A Beautiful Thing (Radio Edit) – Ocean Colour Scene with P.P. Arnold
4. I’m Only Dreaming (Demo) – P.P. Arnold with Steve Cradock
5. Well Well Well – Steve Howe with P.P. Arnold
6. Temptation – Chip Taylor with P.P. Arnold
7. Five In The Afternoon – Dr. Robert & P.P. Arnold
8. I Saw Something – Dr. Robert & P.P. Arnold
9. Stay Now – Dr. Robert & P.P. Arnold
10. Satellite – Dr. Robert & P.P. Arnold
11. Beautiful Song
12. The Love Is Gone – The Mixture with P.P. Arnold
13. Baby Blue
14. Different Drum
15. When I Was Part Of Your Picture
16 Take Me Away (Live, May 2012)
17. Like An Old Fashioned Waltz (Live, May 2012)
18. Soul Survivor

Soul Survivor – A Life In Song (2LP Set):

LP 1
A1. (If You Think You’re) Groovy
A2. The First Cut Is The Deepest
A3. Angel Of The Morning
A4. To Love Somebody
A5. A Likely Piece Of Work
A6. Medicated Goo
A7. Bury Me Down By The River

B1. Will You Love Me Tomorrow – Andy Gibb With P.P. Arnold
B2. Belle The Sleeping Car – Andrew Lloyd Webber, “Starlight Express” Original Cast, P.P. Arnold
B3. A Little Pain
B4. Supergrass
B5. Electric Dreams
B6. Burn It Up (7-inch Edit) – The Beatmasters With P.P. Arnold

LP2
C1. Perfect Sense Part 1 – Roger Waters feat. P.P. Arnold
C2. I Believe
C3. Well Well Well – Steve Howe With P.P. Arnold
C4. Salobreña – P.P. Arnold with Chaz Jankel
C5. It’s A Beautiful Thing (Radio Edit) – Ocean Colour Scene With P.P. Arnold
C6. I’m Only Dreaming (Demo) – P.P Arnold with Steve Cradock

D1. Satellite – Dr. Robert & P.P. Arnold
D2. Like An Old Fashioned Waltz (Live, May 2012)
D3. The Love Is Gone – The Mixture With P.P. Arnold
D4. Different Drum
D5. When I Was Part Of Your Picture
D6. Soul Survivor

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