Eurovision icon Mary Hopkin is set to release a brand new album, alongside her musician daughter Jessica Lee Morgan.

Hopkin, best known for her number 1 UK hit ‘Those Were The Days, also competed in the 1970 Eurovision Song Competition and came 2nd with ‘Knock, Knock, Who’s There’. She lost out to Ireland’s 32 votes to Dana’s ‘All Kinds Of Everything’.

Mary was also one of the first artists to be signed to The Beatles label Apple Records, after appearing on television programme ‘Opportunity Knocks’ in 1968.

The new album, ‘Two Hearts’, will be released on May 3rd, Mary’s birthday.

Mary Hopkin and her daughter Jessica Lee Morgan release a long-awaited album of duets.

Having sung together at home and on each other’s albums, they finally committed to an album of their favourite covers and some new jointly-written and performed songs.

Mary and Jessica learned some covers together back when Jessica got her first guitar as a teenager. These included ‘Eternal Flame’ by The Bangles, ‘My Town’ by the McGarrigles, and ‘Why Worry’ by Dire Straits. They sang the latter together on stage when Mary appeared with The Chieftains in 1999.

They moved on to writing together and Jessica included some of these songs in live shows and on her albums, such as ‘Here It All Comes Again’ and ‘The Less Said The Better’.

Other songs were written more recently, Mary writing lyrics and melodies to Jessica’s instrumentals, resulting in stunning multi-layered harmonies on tracks such as ‘Far Away’ and ‘Two Hearts, Broken’.

The result is a mix of styles unified by voices which sometimes can be difficult to tell apart, but also having their own unique characteristics.

Mary and Jessica play most of the instruments between them. Morgan Visconti – Mary’s son and Jessica’s brother – has supplied soaring electric guitar solos on three of the tracks. Christian Thomas has been the invaluable engineer and technical support, also playing bass and additional guitar.

The album features cover art painted by Jessica, and the full tracklisting of Two Hearts is as follows:

1. Tomorrow

2. Why Worry

3. The Less Said The Better

4. Where Do You Go?

5. Far Away

6. Eternal Flame

7.Here it All Comes Again

8. Sail With Me

9. My Town

10. You’ve Got Everything

11. Two Hearts, Broken

Pre-order ‘Two Hearts’ here CD: http://www.maryhopkin.com/albums/two-hearts.html with a digital release to follow via label Mary Hopkin Music.