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    Posted: January 23 2007 at 10:50
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A Whole New World
~ Katie Price and Peter Andre (Artist)
 
(48 customer reviews)    
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Released in November 2006, Peter and Jordan's album has received many reviews from real Amazon customers......... read about how it has cured blindness, re-awakened someone from a coma, provided a solution to the Iraq war, and why one reviewer believes Peter and Katie should be killed........:

Together! At last!, 23 Nov 2006
Reviewer: Black Mask
Duets can be tough things to pull off, especially when you're dealing with two magnificent and unique talents, but sometimes... sometimes they just work. Think of Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. Think of Iggy Pop and Debbie Harry. Think of Freddie Mercury and Monserrat Caballe. And now forget all of them, because the new benchmark in duets has finally arrived. Here we have two people of such staggering talent, of such bewildering cultural importance, of such dizzying MAGIC that they just blow you away. Every song on this album should be the Christmas number one. Every song on this album is destined to be a classic. This album should be compulsory on Desert Island Discs, just like the Bible and the collected works of William Shakespeare. Everyone in the world should have the lyrics from this album tattooed on their soul and the album cover tattooed on their back. This is the greatest album of all time. If a better album is ever released again, EVER, I will eat this album. And then I'll buy another copy to replace the one I ate and put it with the other fifty copies I keep in what used to be my record collection until I dumped the lot because this album was the only album I'd ever need again ever.

Buy this album!
 
Is the world going mad?, 30 Nov 2006
 
Reviewer: Common Sense "Yeah yeah" (England)
It's not often that you can buy a record which is sung by 3 huge t1ts. Anybody not taking this albumn or these artists seriously should be removed from society and placed into a secure unit somewhere where they can be looked after by people wearing white uniforms.

 

Two monstrous talents, 2 Dec 2006
 
Reviewer: The Tears of Orpheus (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
I literally can not stop my feet from dancing and my fingers from clicking. Every synapse in my brain has stopped firing and my emotional palette has been wiped clean. I feel that I have been afflicted with the musical version of Parkinson's Disease and I love it.

Yet, I also despair. How can I, as a loving husband, ever try to tell my wife of my love for her again when I hear Peter Andre's sincerity oozing like pulchritudinous pustules of teenage hormones.

When I listen to 'Tonight I Celebrate My Love For You,' I think of the beautiful sorrow of parting that Peter must feel when he is alone in his hotel room able only to watch Jordan's oral talents on the Pay TV service. Timeless classics so modern that you feel reborn and as blessedly ignorant as a new child gush forth in a manner so modest and reserved that it almost seems like ostentation. How can two monstrous talents such as these, who so shun public exposure, have plucked up the courage to make this bold, vibrant statement of artistic splendour? And lets not forget Peter's contribution either.

If I knew what it meant, I would describe this as a tour de france of an album. Every number steams solidly to combine into an aural pastoral, making me conjure up images of a beautiful country lane after the herd has passed. This is a bovine of an album. It is not some fey, weak, short-lived songbird, it demands to be heard in the same fashon as summer evening kine lowing. Yet moreso!

The cherished graveyards of musical history have opened up their graves, tombs and sepulchres and sent forth their most beloved corpses to have new life breathed into them. Nothing is sacred anymore, nothing is respected as Peter coaxes new pearls of fertile seed from his throat. And Jordan is there with a natural beauty that seems almost prosaic as she blows such honest, primal sentiment over the shrivelled members of music's pantheon.

Each one of these tracks is a well-oiled slab of commercial, power pop.

'Islands in the Stream,' naturally makes me think of Jordan bathing in the love of her husband. How lucky she is that a song so describing her massive contributions to modern consumer culture was written for her? One staggers in awe at the prophetic geniuses who surely must have known that this album would one day demanded to be made.

I could carry on penning the eulogy of all that is tasteful and talented, but I must desist. Instead, I feel I must prick this bubble of wonder that surrounds me and register a disastisfaction with this album. The second song is titled, The Best Things In Life Are Free but this isn't true dear reader. The best thing in life costs only a mere £8.99! But be assured that by the time you hear the third song on this album that you will have formed an Endless Love with this jewel in the world's navel.

 

quite simply magical!!!, 6 Dec 2006
 
Reviewer: Daviebuckets (scotland)
The most important question in life is..............what is the meaning of life? Many have tried and failed to come up with an answer to this question but cannot due to the differing religions and beliefs of this fueding planet. BUT FINALLY THIS QUESTION HAS BEEN ANSWERED.....by K and P recordings!!
I kid you not ladies and gentlemen, this album could stop wars and restore world peace! When i finally die i want this album to be played at my funeral because i feel that this collection of covers is so perfect that it sums up exactly what life is all about!
Katie Price has the voice of an angel and i know that when i die i want Katie and Peter's love to travel with me to the gates of heaven, where it belongs.
I am pretty sure that if heaven has elovators, then this would be the music in those elovators!
If God had to explain to the world how much he loves them..............he would play thins album!
Please please please everyone, buy this album it is a simply life changing event listening to this pair of angels!

Here is to world peace...............and a whole new world!

 

Recalls the most beautiful experiences, 8 Dec 2006
 
Reviewer: Sheepy "Sheepy" (Shetland)
What a wonderful experience. It reminded me of that time I was walking along a running stream in a wooded glade when I spotted the water turning a pale shade of red. This I attributed to the cherry blossom that was overhanging the water's edge dropping into and colouring the water but upon further inspection I discovered a number of floating, disgorged sheep, guts and entrails spewing out and blood trailing along in swirls behind each carcass. I shall always treasure that moment as I shall this album.

 

A whole new realisation..., 15 Dec 2006
 
Reviewer: Simon (London)
It took me few hours to build up the strength to write this email, letting the shaking and the tears subside before I was able to coax myself down from my own "Cloud 9".

Trying to muster the words to describe to you the delicate yet dominating tones of joy and bliss that have been scribed in this album is hard. Hard to conjure up the emotion it stirs in the pit of your stomach.

"A Whole new world...."

It's still resonating around my skull, still seronading my brain, and echoing in my ears. I can only begin to compare this to the feeling that Jehovah's must get when they first "Witness" - whatever that is - I feel my eyes have been opened.

"...A New Horizon"

My concern now of course is will they stay together??? Surely Coldplay are lining up Peter, and Katie must surely be in the running to team up with the Sugarbabes.... For the sake of all of us true music lovers, who can do nothing but bow in awe at the new King and Queen of not just pop music, but ALL music, please Peter. Please Katie. Please don't stop making records.

PLEASE DON'T. STOP.

 

A bonafide miracle., 20 Dec 2006
 
Reviewer: Peter Brant (Worthing, West Sussex.)
I was born deaf. I have never heard any sound, a child laughing, the sea washing up the beach, the wind in the trees. All these sounds are alien to me and I will never know what beauty they hold. I am also completely blind. I have never seen a setting sun, a flower bloom or David Beckham. But for one brief moment last week I heard sounds and saw sights for the first time in my life. My wife bought "A Whole new World" by Peter Andre and the Jordans. The second she put it on, I was transported to a world of colour and the sounds of angels. I could see, I could hear. Tears rolled down my face as I saw my wifes face for the first time, even the revelation of her hideous features could not detract from the majesty of the voices of Peter and Jordan soaring like eagles through a sun kissed sky. I rose from my chair and carressed the cd jewel case, sounds and sights filling my senses. For 37 minutes I was a normal person, filled with joy. Then the CD stopped, and I returned to a world of silence and darkness. I stumbled into a coffee table and fell face first into the stereo system, shattering it, and my teeth into a thousand pieces. My wife has since hidden the CD. I spoke to my doctor on the phone, and he confirmed that there is no medical explanation for my temporary cure. He also said that he had many patients come to him with temporary miracle cures occuring whilst listening to the god given album. For a full 37 minutes, Didier Drogba managed to run without falling over, Geraint Jones remained at the crease and Barry from the Cillit Bang commercials lost his voice.
There is only one explanation - Somehow, Peter and Jordan have managed to create work of such wonder and power, that it is the embodiment of our lord Jesus Christ. It is, for all intents and purposes, the second coming.

 

Mindbending, 20 Dec 2006
 
Reviewer: Citygent "Citygent" (UK)
I've always loved music of all types whether sparce Belgian techno or dark jungle, gabba or handbag cheese, trip-hop or progressive, uplifting Italian piano or down and grimy speed garage, drum AND base or good ol' fashioned nosebleed, but today.... today something new, something ground breaking has literally assaulted my ears like a sonic enema, purging everything that I thought I knew about music, leaving me feeling washed out, cleansed and ready to leave behind the old me, what I used to be, leaving me ready, ready for a whole new world.

I ripped this CD into MP3, put on my iPod and as the first notes hit me, I sat bolt upright, like, like...... like a puppy that's been trodden on, and I ran, ran through the house, down the hall and straight through the closed patio doors, shards of glass embedding in me as I danced around the garden, leaping like Bambi might have done if Bambi had been shot in the butt with a .177 air pellet.

I don't remember what happened next, but when the final track, 'Lullaby', ended I was tapping my foot and clicking my fingers in the first class section of a plane to Denver, Colarado. Naked.

My hair is now completely white and I twitch more than I used to, but the doctors say that's normal and have prescribed thorozine, but nothing, nothing, NOTHING beats the new high that I have found in this album.

I wonder if it's possible to make albums like this in bathroom laboratories to be shipped out for unknowing young ravers worldwide....?

What a buzz!! *Locks door and puts CD in player*

 

 

 
Saved me from killing myself., 21 Dec 2006
 
Reviewer: Moose (Wales)
Honestly, the rope was attached to the beam and the electric fire was placed in front of the block of ice but I decided that I needed some music to keep me entertained when the ice melted so I grabbed this cd that I had bought a week before but hadn't yet played. Wow! What can I say? The vocal range, the breathtaking harmonies, the class - yes, CLASS!!!!!
If a half plastic model with below average looks/talent and a greasy Aussie with severe nasal problems can come up with a gem of a cd like this then there is HOPE FOR ALL OF US!!!!
Thank you Katie, Thank you Peter, you saved me. I will love you for always.........

 

Stunning, 22 Dec 2006
 
Reviewer: W. Williams (Manchester, England) 
This album, jokingly claimed to be by a pair of huge singing tits (Peter & Jordan), is quite simply the best CD ever. I put it on when I wake up and everything seems right with the world again. I would suggest the US & UK withdraw their troops from Iraq and Afghanistan and drop millions of copies of this CD over the middle east instead. Problems in that region will cease immediately and love will prevail, leaving us truly, with a whole new world.

 

Comatose wife recovers!, 22 Dec 2006
 
Reviewer: Gary R. Doyle "Mr Happy" (Switzerland)
After an unfortunate accident at home my wife slipped into a coma and after a few days when the dirty plates and so on had piled up I noticed and had her taken to a hospital.

The Doctors said they could do nothing for her and she just lay there wired up to a machine that beeped. The Doctors told me that if I talked to her then it might stimulate her to recovery but even after ten minutes there was no change so I went home to watch the football (Everton vs Chelsea, both sides had notable absentees which, considering the relative squad depths of the two, was likely to impact on Everton more so than the Stamford Bridge outfit. David Moyes will be without suspended midfield dynamo Tim Cahill, whose recent return to goal scoring form has coincided with Everton's mini-revival in the Premiership after an abysmal start) but I didn't get a chance to watch all the game because I had to surf the net. With my wife out of the picture I was looking on the internet for some kind stimuli and having been disappointed by the content on Katie Holme's website. Paris Hilton's download "one night in Paris" did the trick and keen for more I followed some links for Jordan. Well before I knew it, I had ordered some products.

Imagine my disappointment 10-14 days later when I received a CD and not a DVD! But that was short lived as I visited the hospital to check on the wife and have her sign some cheques by putting the pen in her hand and moving the paper around underneath. In the hospital room was a CD player and so as I left to pop around to an old girlfriends I popped this CD on and hit auto-replay.

The following morning much refreshed I visited the wife again (a new cheque book had arrived in the post) and I was amazed to see that tears were running from the corners of my comatose wife's eyes. Elation! The Doctors say that this is a miracle and have instructed that the album be played back-to-back via headphones to my wife until she recovers.

Her return to consciousness and some clean clothes are hopefully just around the corner -

Thank you Jordan and Peter!

 

Stunning!, 22 Dec 2006
 
Reviewer: Deejay Sleepy (UK)
I've been studying music full time now for the past seven years of my life. I've gone from Btec level right through to the masters degree that I'm currently studying for and I can say in all honesty that I have NEVER heard an album quite like this. As has been said in previous reviews, this is a work of truly earth-shattering importance. Despite the fact that it may seem like a cynical christmas marketing ploy to extract cash from Daily Mail and Hello readers, the sheer stunning brilliance of this record cannot be overstated. It is true to say that many great artists are never appreciated in their own time so I think just to be sure, Jordan and Peter should both be killed.

 

Restored my eyesight after 36 years - Truly marvellous!, 22 Dec 2006
 
Reviewer: D. Marshall "No Longer Blind." (UK)
Just before I was born, my mother refused to buy clothes pegs from an old Gipsy woman that came to our door, the old gipsy woman said that from that day forward, my mother would be cursed, struck blind and crippled with arthritis. Unfortunately, it was me that was blind and crippled with arthritis, that was until I heard Katie and Peter's hot new LP.

I was sat there blind and in pain with my joints as usual and "A whole new world" came on the stereo. It was like magic, I began to see lights and then colours, and before I knew it, I could see everything. It truly was "A Whole New World".

If there are any other people in my predicament that are reading this, then dont hesitate, it really is "A Whole New World"

 

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That's even more unpredictable and colourful in an unexpected way than PA's Dream Theater - Scenes From A Memory reviews page. LOL
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Good God, to think I actually turned down the chance of a free copy of this album yesterday.CryCry


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The day music peaked, 28 Dec 2006
Reviewer: Bobo the Wise (Leeds, UK) - See all my reviews
I read the previous reviews with a certain level of scepticism, thinking surely they were sarcastic jokes at the expense of Jordan and Peter. How wrong I was.

Upon placing the cd and the first celestial chords striking up I was blinded by a bright light and a voice akin to Pinky from Pinky and Perky spoke to me saying "My child you have discovered paradise, now go and spread my word, you are about to embark on a whole new world" but my Lord I said, I have already found paradise in "Looking For - The Best of David Hasselhoff" (check it on amazon.com). "No my child", the voice answered,"that was merely an entree, now go, time is precious and you have much work to do".

I subsequently packed in my £[...] a year city job, ditched my supermodel girlfriend and locked myself in my flat, listening to Price and Andre till I'd swallowed every ounce of this musical epic. I now spend my days walking the streets of Aberystwyth distributing free copies of this CD to any who wish to be enlightened, dressed all in white carrying a long staff, telling the people I meet that I defeated the NAZGUL with this CD and nothing else.

Peace be with you all

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true great for our time, 28 Dec 2006
Reviewer: Chrissy Waddle "Chris 'the mullet'" (Newcastle) - See all my reviews
Why aye man, i've only just picked myself off of the floor after plugging my headphones into the Hi-Fi on christmas morning. Little did me mam realise what she was buying me for christmas that afternoon in woolies.
I was sceptical at first knowing that you'd have to go some man to beat me and Chrissy Hoddle's master piece from 1987 'Diamond Lights' but this cd had me hooked from the second i ejected the disc tray and inserted the shining silver disc into it.
The memory of ballooning that ball over the crossbar in the 1990 semi final against West Germany evaporated in the almost frenzied terrace chanting like notes contained within all of these songs, no songs do these wonderfully crafted stories in the medium of pop music no justice, they are symphonies of delight and hypnosis.
When i heard a new world it was as if my boring hair do had once again become a fullsome mullet of massive proportions, i felt as if i could run for 90 minutes from end to end of White Heart Lane or St. James's park, time stood still and if it hadn't of been for the mercurial japester Gazza and not ugly Peter Beardsley knocking for me to go and play some footie over the park and finding me sat in my own filth and unable to talk after five days of non-stop listening i think i would have met my maker! Although as the omnipresent deity is everywhere, heaven must be shut at the moment as his holiness must be giving the angels this cd to practice singing to the departed as they arrive at the pearly gates.
Thank you St. Peter and St. Katie

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What a great record from two surprisingly talented people, 26 Dec 2006
Reviewer: Ken Andrea "Ken" (London UK) - See all my reviews
I say surprisingly because of all the crap we have heard from the intellectuals in the music industry who have been sl*gging these two off (probably before even listening to them). Clever sods all of them who are only in the position of critics because they dont have the balls or the talent to produce anything of value themselves.To the clever sound engineer who suggested it was all done by mirrors!! I suggest he explains how then they manage to reproduce the sound live on stage. I think this is a great effort from Peter & Katie as do my two teenage daughters (14 & 19) and I only hope this the first record of many to come from this undoubtedly talented pair.

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Those reviews were very very very helpful. Wink
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