Seven Years - Ten Weeks - David Sneddon

This debut album tells an autobiographical tale of David's journey - from playing with bands in smoky local clubs to the challenges of being on the TV show, and finishing with the slow burner Long Time Coming, which showcases David's wide ranging and expressive vocals. Songs such as 'Time To Fall Down', 'All my Life' and 'OK' tell of the hardships of rejections, the vulnerability and having your hopes and dreams squashed yet again. There are the moving love songs 'Without You' and 'Don't Let Go.' You can feel all David's youthful longing to make something of his life and to be creative. Many of the lyrics are moving and memorable showing his strong ...  Read the complete review

=== Who is David Sneddon? === David Sneddon is a Scottish born singer and songwriter that rose to the stage when he won the first series of the BBC show Fame Academy. His final performance on the show included his own renditions of 'Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me' and 'I Don't Want To Talk About It' and his own composition 'Stop Living The Lie'. He won the show with a massive three million public votes despite the fact that he only entered the Academy after one of the other contestants dropped out. His love however always remained with writing songs rather than singing them and after releasing his first album, which was full of his own compositions he signed ...  Read the complete review

After winning Fame Academy, David Sneddon won the same year as Will Young and Girls Aloud but the one thing he had was he was a songwriter and very talented not just as a singer but the ability to play many instruments and play live (ahem *Girls aloud* LOL!) I'll start off by saying i wasn't in any way fantatic about David Sneddon, i dont think of him much as a person but i do see a nice quality in his songs and think he has a cracking voice. Whilst i own every CD single and CD album he produced over the small amount of months he had a music career i am not biased, so my review of this album is quite fair I think. The album opens with the ...  Read the complete review