Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile
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| Studio album by Cliff Richard | ||||
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Publication |
7th September 1979 |
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| Label (s) | EMI | |||
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Format (s) |
CD, LP |
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pop |
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Title (number) |
12 |
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Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile is a music album by Cliff Richard from 1979. The album includes his most successful single We Don't Talk Anymore and Carrie .
background
The recording sessions for the album began on July 18, 1978, even before his previous album was released. Over the next few days, the instrumental accompaniment for most of the songs was recorded, while the vocals were partly recorded much later. The last vocal recording was on June 30, 1979, almost a year after the first instrumental recordings. The last song recorded on the album was We Don't Talk Anymore , which was recorded in just one day.
Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile was the first album that producer Terry Britten and Cliff Richard collaborated. The title song Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile was written by Richard himself.
July 1979, We Don't Talk Anymore was released as a single. The single was enthusiastically received by the British public, topped the UK charts for four weeks and became a million seller in 1979. In total, the song has been sold over three million times to date.
After Richard's previous album Green Light , which sold only sluggishly, EMI released Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile on September 7, 1979. The album immediately entered the UK's Top 10 album charts, stayed there for 21 weeks and reached the top spot Third place. Another Top 10 position was achieved by Richard with the single release of the song Carrie in March 1980. The song is considered one of Richard's best pieces; Allmusic calls it "the most electrifying track of his career".
Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile ensured that the revival of Richard's career, which began in 1976 with the album I'm Nearly Famous , lasted well into the 1980s. The album was digitally remastered and re-released on CD in 2001 .
title
- A side
- Monday Thru 'Friday (Terry Britten) - 3:47
- Doing Fine (Terry Britten) - 3:06
- Cities May Fall (Terry Britten, BA Robertson) - 4:17
- You Know that I Love You (Terry Britten) - 2:54
- My Luck Won't Change (Terry Britten, BA Robertson) - 4:13
- Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile (Cliff Richard) - 2:47
- B side
- Sci-Fi (Terry Britten, BA Robertson) - 3:47
- Fallin 'on windward (Terry Britten, BA Robertson) - 3:11
- Carrie (Terry Britten, BA Robertson) - 3:43
- Hot Shot (Terry Britten, BA Robertson) - 3:23
- Language of Love (Terry Britten, BA Robertson) - 4:40
- We Don't Talk Anymore (Alan Tarney) - 4:18
- Bonus Title (Remaster Edition 2001)
- Walking in the Light (Terry Britten) - 3:17
- Moving In (Cliff Richard) - 3:26
occupation
- Cliff Richard - vocals, guitar, backing vocals
- Terry Britten - guitar, backing vocals
- Herbie Flowers - bass
- Graham Jarvis - drums, percussion
- Billy Livsey, Graham Todd - keyboard
- Lance Dixon - Synthesizer at Monday Thru 'Friday
- Martin Dobson - saxophone at Cities May Fall
- Bryn Haworth - guitar in Rock 'N' Roll Juvenile
- Tristan Fry - percussion with Carrie and Language of Love
- Chris Mercer, Martin Drover, Mel Collins - bass on My Luck Won't Change and Hot Shot
- Peter Skellern - Piano on Language of Love
- Alan Tarney - guitar, bass, keyboard, backing vocals on We Don't Talk Anymore
- John Perry, Stuart Calver, Tony Rivers, Madeline Bell - backing vocals
- Richard Hewson - string orchestra in Sci-Fi and Language of Love
- Trevor Spencer - drums in We Don't Talk Anymore
- Gered Mankowitz - cover design
Charts
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| July 1979 | We Don't Talk Anymore | 1 | 7th | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| October 1979 | Hot shot | 46 | 27 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| January 1980 | Carrie | 4th | 34 | 18th | 4th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| September 1979 | Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile ( We Don't Talk Anymore in the US) | 3 | 93 | 28 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Individual evidence
- ^ Cliff Richard Song Database - 1970s Songs. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ^ Cliff Richard | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ^ Cliff Richard | full Official Chart History | Official Charts Company. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .
- ^ Carrie - Cliff Richard | Song info. Retrieved August 21, 2019 (American English).
- ↑ Cliff Richard - Rock N Roll Juvenile CD Album. Retrieved August 21, 2019 .