Released November 1984 Artist Steve Miller Band Producer Steve Miller Genres Rock music, New wave | Length 37:19 Release date November 1984 Label Capitol Records | |
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Italian X Rays
(1984) Living in the 20th Century
(1986) Similar Living in the 20th Century, Circle of Love, Wide River, Rock Love, Recall the BeginningA Journey fr | ||
Italian X Rays is the thirteenth album by American rock band The Steve Miller Band, released in 1984. "Who Do You Love?" and "Out of the Night" were songs co-written by Steve Miller and Tim Davis. Tim Davis had been a co-founder of the Steve Miller Band and had been a drummer, singer and songwriter with the band during its first five albums, released between 1968 and 1970. As of 1984, Davis was suffering from the effects of diabetes, and died four years later.
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Referring to "Out of the Night", Steve Miller wrote, in the liner notes to the Steve Miller Band Box Set (1994), "This is the last song I wrote with Tim Davis. Tim was dying at the time from diabetes and it had taken a terrible toll on him. But he never lost his good humor."
Track listing
- "Radio 1" (Byron Allred) – 0:37
- "Italian X Rays" (Steve Miller, Gary Mallaber) – 4:40
- "Daybreak" (Allred) – 2:38
- "Shangri-La" (Miller, Kenny Lee Lewis) – 5:04
- "Who Do You Love?" (Miller, Tim Davis) – 2:56
- "Harmony of the Spheres 1" (Allred) – 1:46
- "Radio 2" (Allred) – 0:35
- "Bongo Bongo" (Miller, Chris McCarty) – 3:12
- "Out of the Night" (Miller, Davis) – 3:46
- "Golden Opportunity" (Mallaber, Lewis) – 3:32
- "The Hollywood Dream" (Miller, Allred) – 3:51
- "One in a Million" (Miller) – 3:43
- "Harmony of the Spheres 2" (Allred) – 0:53
Personnel
Songs
1Radio 10:36
2Italian X Rays4:38
3Daybreak2:42