Track Listing

1. Dance With My Father
2. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart
3. Yah Mo B There
4. If You Don't Know Me By Now
5. We've Only Just Begun
6. Ooh Baby Baby
7. (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher
8. Help Me Make It Through The Night
9. Against All Odds
10. Hang On In There Baby
11. I Don't Want To Talk About It
12. Kiss and Say Goodbye
13. Have I Told You Lately
14. Until You Come Back To Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #61052 in Music
• Released on: 2005-05-09
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

Amazon.co.uk Review
Heart And Soul is the much-awaited inaugural album from reluctant, rags-to-riches soul boy Steve Brookstein, the ceaselesly modest, perpetually laid-back but nevertheless soaraway winner of the nation’s favourite pop democracy TV show The X Factor. Having thus grinned his way to stardom from lowly regional karaoke bars to a million-pound record deal and the mentorship of plain-speaking pop entrepeneur Simon Cowell, Heart And Soul really does sound like the culmination of a lifetime's desire to sing the songs which matter to him the most. The TV audience always knew Brookstein - placid but with a voice underpinned by a timeworn rasp - had soul but Cowell often doubted if Brookstein had the heart - or, more accurately, the stomach - for the fight. Cowell was wrong, although he was perspicacious enough to rumble Brookstein's uptempo limitations. Fittingly, the gymnastic "Ya Mo Be There" and a mega-gospel puff through "Higher And Higher" don't sit well with Brooksteins' ponderous personna. Elsewhere the balance - a satiny "We've Only Just Begun" through to Van Morrison's "Have I Told You Lately" - seems better personalised while concluding that if soul music rightfully belongs to Stax and Motown, music with soul is more universal. Brookstein's versions of Kris Kristofferson's vulnerable "Help Me Make It Through the Night" and the late Danny Whitten's regretful "I Don't Want To Talk About It" will doubtless appeal to the maternal instincts of admirers who see him as an elligible, prospective son-in-law. --Kevin Maidment

CD Description
'Heart And Soul' is the debut album by reality TV star Steve Brookstein. Having won over the nations heart with his fine showing on television series The X-Factor, Brookstein has chosen to cover some of his favourite recordings for his debut album, which also includes a guest appearance from gospellegend Bebe Winans. Includes the single 'Against All Odds'.

From the Artist
Steve says: 'I'm a realist, first and foremost is my passion for music and The X Factor has given me the platform to fully concentrate on delivering a great album to a new audience...When I first started out I always used to sing these songs. They have played an important part in my musical history'