It contains an introduction by Armatrading and annotations to a number of songs as well as handwritten lyrics and scores, giving a rare, personal glimpse into the creative process of a true pioneer. What might seem touching, even profound wrapped around a tune can seem cloying and over sentimentalised on the page. We use Google Analytics to see what pages are most visited, and where in the world visitors are visiting from. The book is out now, and to celebrate this book we take a look back at her 50-year-career in an interview with Armatrading herself.

Into the Blues came out four years later and found Armatrading diving headlong into that genre — the first straight up blues disc she’d ever made. When her debut album, Whatever’s For Us, came out in 1972, there was really no one else like Armatrading on the scene.Since the release of her debut album Whatever's For Us in 1972, Joan Armatrading has, across a fifty-year career, traversed styles and genres to create a monumental body of work. In 2020 she received the Ivors Academy Fellowship Award, their highest accolade, and in 2021 was awarded an AIM Award for her contribution to music.

Selected and arranged by the author, The Weakness In Me presents the lyrics of Joan Armatrading for the first time in one unique volume. The lyrics to some of my all time favourite songs in a volume typical of Joan, neat, understated, accessible and comprehensive. has a double meaning on race that is almost chilling, and her Cobain like opening of ‘some people want to see my blood gush out’ is no less powerful. She is a Trustee of the Princes’ Trust, which she has supported since 1982, and holds six honorary degrees, doctorates, or fellowships.Selected and arranged by the author, and featuring a foreword by revered record producer Glyn Johns, 'The Weakness In Me' presents the lyrics of Armatrading. It’s almost a perfect bedfellow for ‘love and affection’, proving that even at seventy years of age she is still being handed down couplets of silken beauty from the pan gods of pop. While the subject matter on Consequences once again focuses mainly on romance and relationships, the sound is quite different from Not Too Far Away.