Win a copy of 'Legend - The best of Willie Nelson'

06/05/2008

As part of Sony-BMG’s celebration of Willie Nelson’s 75th Birthday (on April 30th), a special 20-track Best Of CD will be released at the same time as he returns for UK tour dates.

 

Willie Nelson is widely recognized as an American icon, although his distinctive music and other social and political activities sometimes take a backseat to his pop-culture public image - firmly grounded in the acknowledged reality of his life.

 

Nelson's albums have sold millions. Stardust, his 1978 cover collection of the pop hits of his youth, exceeds 5 million in sales, according to the Recording Industry Association of America. Three others have sold 4 million copies each, along with two double-platinum albums and nine platinum albums.

 

The 74 year old singer/songwriter/actor/activist is one of the most recognisable superstars of country music. Many of Nelson's songs became hits for some of country and pop music's biggest stars of the time. These songs include "Funny How Time Slips Away" (Billy Walker), "Hello Walls" (Faron Young), and most famously, "Crazy" (Patsy Cline).

 

All of these songs, and many more, feature on this new collection.

 

UK Tour dates

 

Tues 6 May -  Aberdeen Music Hall                 
Wed 7 May -  Dundee Caird Hall                                                   
Thurs 8 May - Glasgow Clyde Auditorium                                     
Fri 9 May - Glasgow Clyde Auditorium                                     
Sun 11May  - Manchester Apollo                                       
Mon 12 May - Wolverhampton Civic Hall
Tues 13 May - London Hammersmith Apollo      

 

 

Mature Times has 10 copies of the CD to give away. For a chance to win a copy, just answer the following question.                    

 

 

Which star of Antiques Roadshow, interviewed for the Personality Interview section of the website was born in the town of Nelson?

 

 

Competition closes 26th May 2008