April Moon

Infobox Album | Name = April Moon
Type = studio


Artist = Sam Brown
Released = 1990
Genre = Pop/Soul
Label = A&M Records
Producer = Pete Brown & Sam Brown
Previous Album = "Stop!" (1988)
This album = "April Moon" (1990)
Next album = "43 Minutes" (1993)

"April Moon" is the second album by U.K. singer/songwriter Sam Brown. The album contained 'With A Little Love' and 'Kissing Gate' - both minor hits in the U.K, Europe and Australia. Further singles lifted from the album were 'Once In Your Life', 'Mindworks' and 'As One'. Videos were made for all but the last of the singles.

David Gilmour of Pink Floyd sings on the track 'Troubled Soul' (he had also appeared on Brown's debut album).

The album sold over half a million copies worldwide.

Track listing

#"April Moon" (S. Brown)
#"With A Little Love" (M. Buchanan, S. Brown)
#"Mindworks" (R. Newman, S. Brown)
#"Kissing Gate" (S. Brown, P. Brown, S. Jones, T. Warrilow)
#"Where You Are" (P. Brown, S. Brown, P. Bangash)
#"Contradictions" (D. Schogger, S. Brown)
#"Once In Your Life" (S. Brown, G. Sutton)
#"Hypnotised" (P. Brown, S. Brown)
#"As One" (S. Brown, M. Buchanan)
#"Eye For An Eye" (D. Schogger, S. Brown)
#"Troubled Soul" (P. Brown, P. Bangash, S. Brown)
#"S'Envoler" (E. de la Lubie, S. Brown)
#"Henry" (S. Brown, P. Bangash, P. Brown)
#"Pride And Joy" (I. Maidman, P. Brown, S. Brown) (*CD only)
#"Now And Forever" (P. Brown, M. Seligman, S. Brown) (*CD only)
#"The Way I Love You" (R. Shannon) (*CD only).

In Popular Culture

"April Moon" was the title of an episode of the Warner Bros. animated series Batman Beyond, in which it was also a special code word used to deactivate robotic enhancements installed in street gang members. It was named for a photograph of a character named April, the wife of a fictional prosthetics expert and surgeon who installed the prosthetics. Batman even references the song when he looks at the picture.