{"product_id":"i-love-my-friends","title":"I Love My Friends","description":"\u003cp\u003eStephen Duffy’s 1996 solo album I\u003ci\u003e Love My Friends\u003c\/i\u003e available for the first time ever on vinyl and vinyl replica CD. Produced by Stephen Street, the album was released to unanimously positive reviews and remains a favourite among his fans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFollowing a time of personal upheaval, the album was the result of an unprecedented creativity for Stephen. “The tunes and the words were coming faster than I could write them down. That’s the dichotomy of \u003ci\u003eI Love My Friends\u003c\/i\u003e. My interior world was falling apart, but creatively it was a charmed existence.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter tasting worldwide chart success with his 1985 hit \u003ci\u003eKiss Me\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen went on to record four albums of exquisite bucolic pop with his group The Lilac Time before recommencing his solo career. Stephen was a formative player in the West Midlands post-punk scene alongside Swell Maps and Duran Duran, whose first incarnation he fronted. In 2002, he reunited with Nick Rhodes to release an album of their early songs with the group.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor \u003ci\u003eI Love My Friends\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen has reverted to the original intended sequence for the album, which was produced by Stephen Street, restoring fan favourites \u003ci\u003eMao Badge\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIn The Evening Of Her Day \u003c\/i\u003eto the track list. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe two Andy Partridge-produced tracks recorded at the behest of Stephen’s label as putative singles now feature on a seven-inch single, which comes with the record. As with all Needle Mythology releases, a vinyl replica CD is available.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe CD version of\u003ci\u003e I Love My Friends\u003c\/i\u003e features a bonus CD \u003ci\u003eBlown Away – Selected Demos Volume 1\u003c\/i\u003e - ten previously unreleased demos for songs written during the \u003ci\u003eI Love My Friends\u003c\/i\u003e sessions but never recorded for the finished album.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Needle Mythology","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50417344151883,"sku":"1060337","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50417344643403,"sku":"1060338","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/4d3ccc70-7318-4511-93cb-f5ac3b6059b4_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726726885","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/i-love-my-friends","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}