Excess All Areas (Shy album)
1987 studio album by Shy
Excess All Areas Released 1 January 1987 (1987-01-01 ) Studio Soundpush Studios, Blaricum, Netherlands, Red Bus Studios, London, UK Genre Glam metal , hard rock Length 41 :16 Label RCA /BMG Producer Neil Kernon
"Break Down the Walls" Released: 1987
"Young Heart" Released: 1987
"Just Love Me" Released: 1988
Excess All Areas is the third album by the Birmingham , England band Shy .[ 2] Recorded in the Netherlands with producer Neil Kernon , the album was published in 1987 on RCA /BMG .[ 3] The album featured Shy's biggest hit, "Break Down The Walls", co-written with Don Dokken and reached Britain's top 75, with Metal Hammer magazine being appreciative.
Track listing
Side one
"Emergency" (Michael Bolton , Duane Hitchings) - 3:35[ 4]
"Can't Fight the Nights" (Michael Jay, Steve Harris, Tony Mills ) - 3:59
"Young Heart" (Harris, Hitchings, Mills) - 3:55
"Just Love Me" (John Parker, Mills) - 3:58
"Break Down the Walls" (Don Dokken , Alan Kelly, Neil Kernon , Shy) - 5:04[ 5]
Side two
"Under Fire" (Harris, Mills, Kelly) - 4:14
"Devil Woman " (Terry Britten , Christine Holmes) - 3:32 (Cliff Richard cover)
"Talk to Me" (Harris, Kelly, Paddy McKenna) - 3:51
"When the Love Is Over" (Jay, Harris, Mills) - 4:22
"Telephone" (Harris, Kelly) - 4:14
Personnel
Shy
Tony Mills – vocals
Steve Harris – guitar
Roy Stephen Davis – bass
Alan Kelly – drums
Paddy McKenna – keyboards
Production
Neil Kernon - producer, engineer, mixing
Frank Koppelman, John Smit, Matt Budd - engineers
John Parker - associate producer on track 4
References
^ Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties . Burlington, Ontario , Canada : Collector's Guide Publishing . p. 323. ISBN 978-1894959315 .
^ Colin Larkin (2006), The Encyclopedia of Popular Music , vol. 7 (4 ed.), Oxford University Press , p. 439, ISBN 0195313739
^ Joel Whitburn, ed. (2007), The Billboard Albums: Includes Every Album That Made the Billboard 200 Chart (6 ed.), Record Research Incorporated, p. 947, ISBN 978-0898201666
^ Urban "Wally" Wallstrom (23 March 2007), "Duane Hitchings, The Man Behind the Hits" , RockUnited.com , retrieved 18 January 2013
^ Schwann Compact Disc Catalog , vol. 2, Schwann Publications, 1987, p. 28, retrieved 27 January 2013
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