Duffy - Rockferry
NME.COM feature on Duffy - Rockferry album including album review, artwork, tracks, listen now, tour dates, discography and more.
Album Review
Release date: 03 March 2008
Duffy
Rockferry
On the ocean-eyed, luscious-lipped, porcelain-cheeked, paper-white face of it, Welsh songstress Duffy is perfect. To start with, her story’s sweet. Now 23, she grew up in remote north Wales, listening to her mother’s modest record collection, smoking in garden sheds and telling ghost stories. Through that inherited, meagre library – and the blessing of tonsils the size of Cadillac...
- Feb 29, 2008
Tracklisting click track to read more
- Rockferry
- Warwick Avenue
- Serious
- Stepping Stone
- Syrup & Honey
- Hanging On Too Long
- Mercy
- Delayed Devotion
- I'm Scared
- Distant Dreamer
More Duffy Reviews
Duffy
…while this Welsh songstress inspires only cat-fighting. The Bodega Social Club, Nottingham (March 7)
- Mar 20, 2008
Duffy - Rockferry YouTube Videos
More Duffy - Rockferry YouTube Videos
Duffy News
Duffy announces second album details
Singer teams up with certain Strokes member's dad for 'Rockferry' follow-up
Duffy - Rockferry: Wikipedia Album Entry
Rockferry is the Grammy and Brit Award winning, debut studio album by Welsh singer Duffy, first released on 3 March 2008 by Mercury Records in collaboration with Universal Records in the US and with Polydor Records in the UK. The album became a worldwide success, becoming the best selling album in the UK in 2008, with 1.7 million copies sold. The album was the fourth best selling album of 2008 worldwide.
Prior to releasing the album, Duffy appeared twice on Jools Holland's music show, performing the tracks "Mercy", "Warwick Avenue" and her version of "The First Cut Is the Deepest". The album title Rockferry, according to Duffy, is loosely based on Rock Ferry, a suburb of Birkenhead, on the Wirral Peninsula and approximately ten miles from the Welsh border and three miles from Liverpool.
The album art and video for the title track were shot on and around the Ffestiniog Railway in Porthmadog, which was renamed 'Rockferry' for the occasion. The timing of the photoshoot was somewhat before the release of the album, when Duffy was still a relatively unknown performer.
The album won a Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards, which were presented 8 February, 2009. Rockferry was ranked number 30th on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the Best Albums of 2008. The album also won Album Of The Year at the 2009 BRIT Awards. At the end of 2008, Q named the album the 6th best album of 2008 and Mojo named it the 31st best album of 2008. Rockferry also received the award for Mastercard British Album at the 2009 BRIT Awards, in a night that saw Duffy take home three awards. The album was the 4th biggest selling of 2008 in the world, as according to the IFPI, as well as being the biggest selling of the UK.
The album is considered an amazing commercial success, especially in the UK, where it was at number four 52 weeks after its release, spending most of them in the top ten albums, and a significant amount in the top three.
User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.
Like Duffy? You might also like...
Artist/Album artwork images hosted by Last.fm. For copyright enquiries please see here.
Duffy - Rockferry Lyrics
Duffy - Rockferry Lyrics
I'd move to Rockferry tomorrow
And I'd build my house baby with sorrow
I'll leave my shadow to fall behind
And I wouldn't write to you 'cause I'm not that kind
Duffy - I'm Scared Lyrics
The blank pages of my diary
That I haven't touched since you left me
The closed blinds in my home
See no light of day
Duffy - Delayed Devotion Lyrics
It seems you wanna give me
Oh, a lifetime of security
Down on your dying knees
I watch you beg, I watch you plead
Duffy - Mercy Lyrics
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Duffy - Hanging On Too Long Lyrics
It was just my mistake thinking you cared
It was just my mistake thinking you'd be there
That you'd be by my side and that you wouldn't lie
My mistake
Duffy - Syrup And Honey Lyrics
Don't you be wastin' all your money
On syrup and honey because I'm sweet enough
Don't you be usin' every minute on makin' a livin'
Because we got our love
Duffy - Stepping Stone Lyrics
I remember way back, way back when
I said I never wanna see your face again
'Cause you were loving, yes you're loving somebody else
And I knew, oh yes, I knew I couldn't control myself
Duffy - Serious Lyrics
I always wanted to see the colors of your destiny
I always wanted to know a flower that would grow
Serious, serious
Duffy - Warwick Avenue Lyrics
When I get to Warwick Avenue
Meet me by the entrance of the tube
We can talk things over a little time
Promise me you won't step out of line
Duffy - Distant Dreamer Lyrics
Although you think I cope
My head is filled with hope of some place other than here
Although you think I smile
Inside and all the while I'm wondering about my destiny
