Beautiful Goodbye (album) explained

Beautiful Goodbye
Type:	studio
Artist:	Richard Marx
Cover:	Beautifulgoodbyecover.jpg
Released:	July 8, 2014
Recorded:	Renegade Studio (Chicago), Area 44 (Chicago), Ocean Way (Westlake), Ocean Way (St. Barth)
Length:	47:01
Label:	Zanzibar Records, Kobalt Label Services
Producer:	Richard Marx, Walter Afanasieff
Prev Year:	2014
Next Title:	The Ultimate Collection
Next Year:	2016

Beautiful Goodbye is the 11th studio album by singer/songwriter and record producer Richard Marx. It was released on July 8, 2014. It is his first new studio album since his 2008 albums Emotional Remains and Sundown, although a seasonal album Christmas Spirit was issued in 2012. The album was preceded by the singles "Turn Off The Night"^[1] in the UK on May 20 and "Whatever We Started" in the US on May 22. The title track was released as a single on September 13, 2014. "Just Go", a bonus track, had been previously released as a single on February 14, 2013.

According to Nielsen SoundScan, this disc had sold a total of 25,165 American copies as of January, 2018.

Track listing

1. "Whatever We Started" (Marx) – 3:55
2. "Suddenly" (Marx) – 4:45
3. "Inside" (Marx) – 5:29
4. "Beautiful Goodbye" (Marx, Daisy Fuentes) – 4:55
5. "Forgot To Remember" (Marx, Matt Scannell, Chris Mann) – 3:49
6. "Turn Off The Night" (Marx, David Hodges, Steven Miller) – 3:28
7. "Have A Little Faith" (Marx) – 4:43
8. "Like The World Is Ending" (Marx) – 4:15
9. "To My Senses" (Marx) – 4:56
10. "Getaway" (Marx, Walter Afanasieff) – 3:41
11. "Eyes On Me" (Marx) – 3:04

Bonus tracks

1. "Just Go" (Marx)
2. "Moscow Calling" (Marx)

Album credits

• Richard Marx – producer, lead and backing vocals, arrangements, guitars, acoustic guitar, piano, keyboards, programming, bass guitar, string arrangements
• Walter Afanasieff – keyboards, programming, string arrangements
• Michael Jade – keyboards, programming, backing vocals
• Morgan Page – programming
• C.J. Vanston – keyboards, programming, string arrangements
• J. Blynn – guitars
• Bruce Gaitsch – guitars
• Michael Landau – guitars
• Heitor Pereira – guitars
• Matt Scannell – guitars
• Michael Thompson – guitars
• Paul Bushnell – bass guitar
• Herman Matthews – drums
• Lucas Marx – drum programming
• Cliff Colnot – string arrangements
• Jeremy Lubbock – string arrangements
• Steven Miller – string arrangements
• Chris Walden – string arrangements
• Molly DeWolf – backing vocals
• David Hodges – backing vocals, string arrangements
• Chip Matthews – mixing
• Matthew Prock – mixing

Notes and References

1. Web site: Turn Off The Night. November 30, 2019.