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Gold was born on August 2, 1951, in Burbank, California, [1] [4] and eventually followed his parents into show business. His mother was singer Marni Nixon, who provided the singing voice for numerous actresses, notably Natalie Wood in West Side Story, Deborah Kerr in The King and I, and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady; his father was Ernest Gold, an Austrian-born composer who won an Academy ...
All This and Heaven Too is the third album by singer-songwriter Andrew Gold, released in 1978 on Asylum Records. [4] It includes the hit singles "Never Let Her Slip Away" (a No. 5 entry on the UK Singles Chart) and "Thank You for Being a Friend" (a No. 25 entry on the Billboard singles chart).
The core of the album consist of the material recorded by Andrew Gold and Graham Gouldman around 1984. [2] The sessions originally spawned two singles under the name Common Knowledge, "Don't Break My Heart" and "Victoria". [3]
Rolling Stone's Stephen Holder said the album was "one of the year's most melodic" and "expresses, with warmth, humor and expertise, a special feeling for mid-Sixties rock."
In 1995, British comedians Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer performed a cover of the song on their show The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer. "Never Let Her Slip Away" was also featured on the soundtrack of the film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013), as a personal favourite of the principal character.
"Spooky, Scary Skeletons" is a Halloween song by American musician Andrew Gold, first released on his 1996 album Halloween Howls: Fun & Scary Music.
Wax were a new wave duo based in Manchester, England, consisting of American singer-songwriter Andrew Gold and 10cc guitarist/bassist Graham Gouldman.They are best known for their European hit singles "Bridge to Your Heart" and "Right Between the Eyes".
Rolling Stone's Stephen Holden called Whirlwind "a well-crafted album of imitation rock by a pop sentimentalist unconvincingly crying tough." Concluding "the record merely reaffirms Andrew Gold's skill as a meticulous pop interior designer recycling Sixties guitar hooks into blandly tasteful studio settings."