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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

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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.

Contents

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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