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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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