Bright Lights and Back Alleys

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Released 29 September 1977 Length 39:08 Release date 27 September 1977 Producers Mike Chapman, Nicky Chinn		Recorded March — April 1977 Artist Smokie Label Rak Records

Studio Whitney Recording Studios (Glendale, California) Bright Lights & Back Alleys (1977) The Montreux Album (1978) Genres Pop rock, Glam rock, Soft rock, Country rock Similar Smokie albums, Glam rock albums

Bright Lights & Back Alleys is the fourth studio album by the English rock band Smokie, released on 29 September 1977 in continental Europe and 7 October in the United Kingdom by RAK Records. Recorded primarily at Whitney Recording Studios in Glendale, California, from March to April 1977, it was produced by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn, as were the band's all previous albums.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's 1977 and 2016 liner notes.

Smokie

Chris Norman – lead vocals, backing vocals, guitars, keyboards

Alan Silson – vocals, backing vocals, guitars

Pete Spencer – backing vocals, drums, percussions

Terry Uttley – backing vocals, bass guitar

Additional musicians

Tom Scott – lyricon and tenor sax (on "In the Heat of the Night")

Technical personnel

Mike Chapman – production

Nicky Chinn – production

Pete Coleman – engineering

MM Sound Digital Mastering Studios – 2016 remastering

Jimmy Haskell – string arrangements (on tracks 1-3 and 5)

Phil Dennys – string arrangements (on tracks 4 and 8)

Cream – sleeve design

Gered Mankowitz – photography

Songs

1It's Your Life3:34
2I Can't Stay Here Tonight4:08
3Sunshine Avenue3:11

References

Bright Lights & Back Alleys Wikipedia

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