{"title":"Dee C Lee","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"back-in-time-walk-away","title":"Back in Time \/ Walk away","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing the release of ‘Just Something’, her acclaimed comeback album at the end March, Dee C Lee is back with a brand-new single ‘Back In Time’, with a special 7” on Acid Jazz. Having served as the album’s thrilling opening track, for this release there is a new radio mix, highlighting the slick, disco-tinged soul at its heart - a perfect soundtrack to the summer. The 7” is backed with ‘Walk Away’, written with fellow Style Council member Mick Talbot, and already a firm fan favourite after its digital release preceding the album. It is presented in a wonderful picture sleeve, with a new portrait of Dee by Will Parsons, with a classic Acid Jazz disc label. Limited to 500 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Acid Jazz","offers":[{"title":"Black 7\"","offer_id":50427046429003,"sku":"2200796","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/AJX801S_Dee_C_Lee_45_eef32a90_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726820891"},{"product_id":"just-something","title":"Just Something","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing the recent release of Dee C Lee’s latest single, \u003ci\u003eWalk Away\u003c\/i\u003e, Acid Jazz Records release \u003ci\u003eJust Something\u003c\/i\u003e, Dee’s first album since 1998. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJust Something features eleven songs: nine originals co-written by Dee, a song penned by her daughter Leah Weller, a successful singer, songwriter in her own right, and two inspired covers. Produced by Sir Tristan Longworth, the album is a soulful collection with an easy-going vibe that frames the instantly recognisable vocals of one of the finest and most in-demand British soul singers of her generation - the writer and performer of Top three single ‘See The Day’, and former member of The Style Council, Slam Slam, Wham! and Animal Nightlife - in luxurious horns, percussion and keys, and heritage soul with a disco backdrop. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by classic Motown, single \u003ci\u003eWalk Away\u003c\/i\u003e was written by Dee with one of her ‘brothers from another mother’, former fellow Style Councillor Mick Talbot, and features Talbot’s distinctive piano and Wulitzer playing on the track. Talbot also plays on another of the album’s many standouts, the Leah Weller-penned ‘Everyday Summer’. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree of the album’s songs, opener \u003ci\u003eBack In Time, \u003c\/i\u003efirst single\u003ci\u003e Don’t Forget About Love\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHow To Love\u003c\/i\u003e were co-written with Michael McEvoy and Ernest McKone, whom Dee wrote with back in the 1980s. All three songs channel her musical past, from the thrill and excitement of those early Wham! days, going out and partying, to The Style Council’s trademark jazzy soul, and expressive balladary and killer choruses, which places Lee in the lineage of classic soul singers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElsewhere, on \u003ci\u003eAnything\u003c\/i\u003e, co-written with Paul Barry, Dee sings her heart out on a song full of optimism and hope for the future, while ‘\u003ci\u003eFor Once In My Life\u003c\/i\u003e’  (the oldest song here dating back to 1998) has hit written all over it, with Lee empowered and regal sounding over a warm blanket of bassy funk. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe album’s two covers, meanwhile, were both suggested to Lee by Acid Jazz’s Eddie Piller. In Lee’s hands, Renee Geyer’s \u003ci\u003eBe There In The Morning\u003c\/i\u003e is pure celebration, taking its cue from the Norman Connors version from 1979. \u003ci\u003eI Love You\u003c\/i\u003e, written by Don Blackman and recorded by Weldon Irvine in 1976, could have been written with Lee in mind. A big club tune, Dee recalls hearing it everywhere she went and I wanted to keep as close to the original vibe as she could. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile the writing and recording of the album was a collaborative process, Just Something is nevertheless the sound of a singer in charge of her own style and direction and throughout her vocal delivery and phrasing steal the show, bright and lilting one moment, passionate and ringing the next. She cites Chaka Khan and Jean Carn as major influences, but Lee’s voice is resolutely her own, the product of a life lived.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Acid Jazz","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50432798622027,"sku":"2174922","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50432799310155,"sku":"2174923","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/thumbnail_0676499073537_fc6ba30f_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726874022"},{"product_id":"shrine-expanded-edition","title":"Shrine (Expanded Edition)","description":"\u003cp\u003eShrine is the 1986 debut solo album by the British soul vocalist Dee C. Lee. She enjoyed a prolific solo career in the mid- 1980s in parallel to her role as vocalist in The Style Council. Dee enjoyed huge success with the ‘60s-styled ballad “See The Day”, which reached #3 in late 1985. In addition to this hit, the album also contains “Come Hell Or Waters High”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, \u003ci\u003eShrine\u003c\/i\u003e is expanded with an additional bonus LP featuring 8 non-album tracks, including “Wow Wow Mix”, “Shrine (Club Mix)”, “Yippee-Yi-Yay! (Dub Mix)” and “Don’t Do It Baby (Remix)”. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Music On Vinyl","offers":[{"title":"2LP - Pink","offer_id":50443049238859,"sku":"2202864","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/MOVLP3333_Sleeve.webp_25a990e6_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727007954"},{"product_id":"extended-versions","title":"Extended Versions","description":"\u003cp\u003eAcid Jazz present this special edition 12” EP from Dee C Lee – ‘Extended Versions’, featuring alternate extended cuts from the album. While the conciseness of the track-listing works wonderfully on the album, this is a great opportunity to showcase the featured musicians and collaborators on the record, stretching out and inhabiting the songs on these special extended versions put together by producer Tristan Longworth. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusicians include the late Pat West, who shines on ‘Anything’, and Nigel Price, who plays the stunning guitar intro on ‘Don’t Forget About Love’. Elsewhere, the backing vocals and Mick Talbot’s gospel-tinged organ provide an ecstatic closing to Leah Weller’s ‘Everyday Summer’, while the Lee-Talbot co-write ‘Walk Away’ has an extended play-out to once again highlight Nigel’s classy, jazzy playing. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented on a beautiful picture sleeve, following on from the design layout of the album.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Acid Jazz","offers":[{"title":"Black 12\"","offer_id":50991380889931,"sku":"2223665","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/thumbnail_DeeCLeeExtendedPackshot_cc2106e5_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1734592979"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/fr\/collections\/dee-c-lee.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}