White Ladder is the fourth studio album by English singer-songwriter David Gray.
White Ladder produced five singles, including the hit "Babylon", which ignited interest in the album and shot Gray to worldwide fame.
White Ladder spent almost three full years on the UK top 100, consistently charting between May 2000 and March 2003.
It was massively successful in Ireland, where it spent six consecutive weeks at number one on the Irish Albums Chart and had sold 350,000 copies by 2002.
[19][20] A hidden track, "Through to Myself", can be found in the pregap of the original 1999 IHT Records release (by rewinding from the start of "Please Forgive Me").
[22] The Japanese release includes the bonus track "Over My Head", which also appears as a B-side on the 1999 "Babylon" single.
[23] The cover of "Say Hello, Wave Goodbye", originally recorded by Soft Cell, features additional lines from the Van Morrison songs "Madame George" and "Into the Mystic".
On 5 August 2001, sixteen months after the re-release and almost three years after its original publication, it reached number one.
In an interview with the Daily Star, he said: "When I started out, a man with a guitar baring his soul wasn't in vogue at all.