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Fran May has completed her album - 'The Beating Of Your Heart'
Unique music for Baby Boomer women aged 46 to 64

The Songs

Canadian born Fran May is a fifty five year old widow, a mother of two, and has worked internationally for the past thirty two years, as a corporate photographer. This album was created in collaboration with Richard Newman. Fran's vocals are unique, Richard's guitar playing is phenomenal, the songs and production are some of the greatest to come out of the UK for many years. The project has been likened to Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon. Just as Roger Waters asked the members of Pink Floyd to provide ideas for a theme to do with their fears, Fran's approach was to try to represent the spectrums of emotion and feelings that any woman might experience during one day.

"I wanted to express my own ideas about being a woman in today's society. I believe a large number of women will be interested in what I have to say, as the songs relate to what it feels like to be a woman of my age in this time. I would like to share my music with you".

"I have worked to create a prosperous life and like other successful women, considered myself talented, but when it came to finding any music which related to me as a post child bearing, creative, healthy, energetic, professional who had balanced child rearing with a career, been married and divorced and known bereavement - I could not find any, so I deceided to make some for my self".

Baby Boomer women are an enormous market world wide. Read the marketing to women - Quick Facts information here http://she-conomy.com/report/facts-on-women/

If you would like to see about Fran's career as a photographer, visit www.franmayphotography.com

Richard Newman, Virtuoso Guitarist, Song-Writer, Producer

Richard Newman was born in 1950 in South London, near Battersea Power Station. He then moved to Richmond, Surrey at the age of seventeen. Since then, he has written and broadcast on the subject, but is mostly known as a producer and mixer of a number of albums by many of the founding members of the London Blues scene pre-Clapton, Beck, Page etc.These artists included Geoff Bradford, Brian Knight, Cliff Aungier and John Joyce. In the early 70's Richard put together a number of seven hour live radio shows for Capital Radio in London, featuring Alexis Corner, Brownie McGhee, Sonny Terry, Long John Baldry, Geoff Bradford, Brian Knight and John Joyce.

Shortly after this, Richard produced and mixed a series of albums for the "Black Lion" jazz label. At the end of the 70's, Richard put together an album featuring Brian Knight that included performances by Peter Green and Charlie Watts plus saxophone from Art Theman and Dick Heckstall Smith as well as Geoff Bradford on electric lead guitar.

In recent years Richard has had a major interview with Peter Green which was published in Guitarist Magazine, and also wrote a feature on the London Blues scene. Richard wrote and presented his own television documentary "Living With the Blues" for Channel Four.

Richard wrote the book "The Making Of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells". He also wrote, along with Dave Laing, a book about the Cambridge Folk Festival.

Richard released a CD called "London Life" which is available on iTunes and features songs about London, some of which were originally filmed by Thames Television in the early seventies and others were part of a demo session which Richard did for Pete Townshend of The Who, who encouraged him to write songs about Battersea, where Richard grew up.

Pete Townshend was a major influence on Richard the song writer in his mid-teens, as was Peter Green who formed Fleetwood Mac and who later became a close friend to Richard when they both lived in Richmond.

 

Images

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This album has taken two and a half years to create..........

Music

On Sunday the 13th June 2010 the music for the album 'The Beating Of Your Heart' was completed. Demo editions have been replicated and the marketing of this project has begun. If you wish to receive an album for review, a certain number of copies will be made available through this web site. Please e-mail me with your contact details to receive your free copy.

 

 

Contact Information

Fran May can be contacted by e-mail.

fran@franmay.com

Thanking you all........

Fran May

 

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