Digitally Remastered Edition includes booklet with rare photos & liner notes!
It also includes 8 unreleased early demos, including Don't Answer Me
Released: 1984
Highest US Chart Position: #15
Singles: Don't Answer Me (#15), Prime Time (#34)
While countless other concept albums were made about great historical personalities,
adaptations of great works of art, or literature, or even human relationships,
Eric saw it fit to base an album on a petrochemical plant in Scarborough in the
north of England. This was a pretty good album overall and contained one of our
biggest hits, Don't Answer Me . I remember the song had started sounding
like Abba until we hit upon the idea of trying to emulate Phil Spector's Wall
Of Sound and started quadruple tracking all the instruments and smothering them
in echo. The success of the song was helped by a very effective animation video
in the style of the Dick Tracy newspaper cartoons, which was heavily rotated
on MTV. The album was definitely the Eric Woolfson show in the vocal department,
carrying four vocal renditions by him including the epic title track, which
I recall took days and days of studio time to get right. During the process, I
almost went nuts trying to persuade Eric to let someone else sing it.
Tracks:
- Prime Time
- Let Me Go Home
- One Good Reason
- Since the Last Goodbye
- Don't Answer Me
- Dancing on a Highwire
- You Don't Believe
- Pipeline
- Ammonia Avenue
Main Players:
Alan Parsons: Producer, Engineer, Fairlight programming
Eric Woolfson: Executive Producer and Vocals
Andrew Powell: Orchestral arrangements and conducting
Tony Richards: Assistant Engineer
Chris Blair: Mastering Consultant
Chris Rainbow: Vocals
Lenny Zakatek: Vocals
David Paton: Bass
Stuart Elliot: Drums and Percussion
Ian Bairnson: Guitars
Mel Collins: Sax
Christopher Warren-Green: Orchestra Leader
