🎵 AotW Chris de Burgh - MAN ON THE LINE (SP-5002)

[LPJim]

Chris de Burgh
MAN ON THE LINE
A&M SP-5002

A1 The Ecstasy Of Light (I Love The Night) 4:00
A2 Sight And Touch 3:17
A3 Taking It To The TopBass – John Giblin 4:00
A4 The Head And The HeartPiano – Howard Jones 3:59
A5 The Sound Of A GunDrums – Trevor MoraisVocals – Tina Turner 4:30
B1 High On Emotion 4:22
B2 Much More Than This 2:57
B3 Man On The Line 4:24
B4 Moonlight And Vodka 3:39
B5 Transmission EndsDrums [Additional] – Jeff Phillips 5:56

• Art Direction – Michael Ross (3)
• Design – Jeremy Williams (3), Simon Adamczewski
• Guitar [Electric] – Phil Palmer
• Management – Kenny Thomson (2)
• Management, Artwork [Assistant Art Dictator] – Dave Margereson
• Photography By – Brian Griffin (3)
• Producer, Arranged By, Arranged By [Orchestra], Keyboards, Synthesizer – Rupert Hine
• Recorded By [Assistant] – Andrew Scarth
• Recorded By, Mixed By, Engineer – Stephen W. Tayler
• Vocals, Guitar, Written-By – Chris de Burgh

Produced and arranged for Gestalt.
Recorded and Mixed at Farmyard Studios, Buckinghamshire, England.
Management: Mismanagement Inc. Los Angeles and London.

Tina Turner appears courtesy of Capitol Records.
Howard Jones appears courtesy of WEA Records.
Robert Hinge re-appears courtesy of Island Records.

All songs published by Rondor Music (London) Ltd.
Controlled in Australia and New Zealand by Rondor Music (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.

Entered the Billboard Top 200 on May 30, 1984
Peaked at #69 and charted for 19 weeks



JB

 

[Dave]

The Tina Turner appearance on "The Sound Of A Gun" is about all to give DeBurgh's latest release any sort of appeal... Without rockers like "Don't Pay The Ferryman" or swift ballads like "Lady In Red", the material despite a few hooks on some songs (well, ballads & rockers) make Man On The Line sort'a competent, but largely faceless...


-- Dave

 

[AM Matt]

"High On Emotion" is a great song which also got MTV airplay too. Matt Clark Sanford, MI