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{{Infobox album
| name = Alone (Spirit Tales)
| type = studio
| artist = [[Stephen Simmonds]]
| cover = Alone_Stephen_Simmonds.jpg
| alt =
| released = 1997 (Sweden, Japan) 1998 (United Kingdom) 2000 (United States)
| recorded =
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = [[Soul music|Soul]], [[pop music|pop]], [[contemporary R&B|R&B]]
| length = 60:39 (''Spirit Tales'')
| label = [[Superstudio]]/Diesel Music (SWE, JP) [[Parlophone]]/[[EMI]](UK) [[Priority Records|Priority]] (US)
| producer = Peter Cartriers, Stephen Simmonds
| prev_title =
| prev_year =
| next_title = [[For Father]]
| next_year = 2002
}}

'''''Alone''''' was the debut album by [[Swedish people|Swedish]] singer [[Stephen Simmonds]]. It was first released in 1997 in [[Sweden]] and later in [[Japan]]. In 1998 and 2000 in [[UK]] and [[United States]] it went by the name '''''Spirit Tales'''''.

'''Japan Release (1997):''' "Alone" was also released in Japan, Simmonds added a recording from 1995 "Thank You For" (one of the tracks from the demo which was sent to diesel music), the song "One" which was on the "b-side" of the "Tears Never Dry" single and also a remix of the song "Alone".

'''UK Release (1998):''' "Alone" was renamed to "Spirit Tales" and was additionally produced and mixed on all the tracks except: "Tears Never Dry", "Alone" Judgement day" and "Let It Go". Songs "One" and "Believe" was added to the album.

'''US Release (2000):''' Simmonds worked with [[Raphael Saadiq]] and 2 Danish producers based in LA at the time called [[Soulshock and Karlin]] and added the tracks "If I Was Your Man" (co-written and produced by Raphael Saadiq) and "I Can't Do That" (co-written and produced by Soulshock and Karlin).

==Track listing for ''Alone''==
* All songs written by Stephen Simmonds, except as noted
# Alone
# Tears Never Dry
# Now's The Time
# For You
# Universe
# Searchin'
# All The People
# Get Down
# Let It Go
# Hope U Do
# Judgement Day

===Japan edition===
Added tracks (Alone album)
# One
# Thank You For
# Alone "[[Lord Finesse|Funkyman]] mix" (featuring [[Big L]] & Marquee)

==Track listing for ''Spirit Tales''==

===Japan Edition===
Added tracks (Spirit Tales album)
#Alone (Funkyman Mix feat. Big L & Marquee)
#I Can't Do That (M.A.W. Vocal)

===UK edition===
Added tracks (Spirit Tales album 1998)
#Believe
#One

===US edition===
Added tracks (Spirit Tales album 2000)
#I Can't Do That (Stephen Simmonds, [[Soulshock|Carsten Schack]], [[Kenneth Karlin]], [[Francois de Roubaix]])
#If I Was Your Man (Stephen Simmonds, Raphael Saadiq)

==Singles==
*Tears Never Dry
*Now's The Time
*Alone
*I Can't Do That (US)
*Get Down (US)

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[[Category:1997 debut albums]]
[[Category:Stephen Simmonds albums]]

Simmonds Alone - Revision history

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