November 2005 saw the first new Will Young since 2003's Friday's Child. Will had spent most of 2004 and 2005 written, recording and testing new material. During the summers or 04 and 05 Will played a series of concerts around the UK at which he tested new material recorded for the new album. In novemebr 2005 the fruits of his labour were ready in the form of Keep On.In the UK Keep On became the first album to be official released in a format known as dualdisc. Dualdisc is where one side of the disc is a regular CD whilst the other side is DVD. Will showcased the album with lead single Switch It On. Some saw it as a risky gamble as Switch it on was not the usual ballad lead single. However before the album or its lead single had been released the follow up single had already been confirmed as All Time Love to be released in before Valentines Day 2006. On release both lead single and album had to compete with Madonna. Whilst the single only managed to peak at five (due to fact downloads of the single had been available since October) the album faired better entering at number 2. During the early part of release week it looked like Will may be able to claim the number one position with sales being fairly close. In the end though he was second best to the queen of pop.
With Keep On Will continued to work with Steve Lipson. It also saw him work with new people including Lucie Silvas, Dan Carey and Nitin Sawhney. He also co-wrote seven of the twelve album tracks himself. Keep On also saw a number of tracks which had previously written for Friday's Child or around the time of promoting Friday's Child the album. These songs included Madness and Switch It On. Promotion for the album saw Will perform various album tracks on different television programs. Album tracks perfromed were Keep On (TOTP & T4), Happiness (Strictly Come Dancing) All Time Love (Royal Variety Show) and Who Am I (Johnathan Ross Show)
Keep On - The Album
Keep On
21st November 2005
Highest Chart Position: 2
Tracklisting
CD Side
01. Keep On (Young/Lipson/Moraes/White)
02. Switch It On (Young/Lipson.Peterson/Poole/Wolf)
03. All Time Love (Hartman)
04. Ain't Such A Bad Place To Be (MacKichan/Poole)
05. Think It Over (Young/Douglas/Poole)
06. Who Am I (White/Silvas)
07. Happiness (Lee)
08. Save Yourself (White)
09. Madness (Young/Gass/Hurly/Thicke)
10. All I Want (Young/Carey)
11. Think About It (Young/Lipson/White)
12. Home (Young/Poole/Sawhney)
DVD Side
01. Entire album in enhanced stereo
02. Exclusive documentary "For Real" includes special performances of All Time Love and Happiness
03. Sketches - The French Assassin, Bollywood Elvis, Bowler Hat and Zepplin Pump
04. Making of the Video - Switch It On
05. Interview with Will
06. Switch It On video
Planned Tracklisting
01. Who Am I
02. Think It Over
03. Switch It On
04. Save Yourself
05. Madness
06. Home
07. Happiness
08. Save Yourself
09. All Time Love
10. Ain't Such A Bad Place To Be
11. Keep On
12. What A Day
Additional Keep On Material - B Sides
01. I Love You More Than You Will Ever Know
02. My Needs
03. Easy
Unreleased Keep On Material
01. Showstarter (Nitin Sawhney)
02. Cuba
03. What A Day
04. In The Stone
05. My Love
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