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Running Wild (album)

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Released
  
1 February 1985

Length
  
37:48

Genre
  
Heavy metal

Label
  
Mercury

Recorded
  
December 1984-January 1985

Studio
  
Air Studios and Battery Studios, London, The Manor, Oxfordshire, England

Running Wild is the fifth studio album by the British heavy metal band Girlschool, released on Mercury Records in 1985.

Contents

It is the only studio work released as a five-piece group by Girlschool, after original lead guitarist Kelly Johnson had left the band. Vocals duties on the album are shared by Jackie Bodimead and Kim McAuliffe.

Running Wild was released only in America. It was produced by Nick Tauber, previously known for his work with Thin Lizzy, Marillion, and Toyah.

"Do You Love Me?" is a cover of the song from Kiss' album Destroyer (1976).

Track listing

Side one
  1. "Let Me Go" (Kim McAuliffe, Jackie Bodimead, Cris Bonacci) – 3:48
  2. "Running Wild" (McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci) – 4:40
  3. "Do You Love Me?" (Paul Stanley, Kim Fowley, Bob Ezrin) – 3:19
  4. "Something for Nothing" (McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci, Denise Dufort, Gil Weston-Jones) – 3:18
  5. "Are You Ready?" (McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci, Dufort, Weston-Jones) – 3:37
Side two
  1. "Nowhere to Run" (McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci) – 3:43
  2. "I Want You Back" (McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci) – 4:33
  3. "Nasty Nasty" (McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci, Dufort, Weston-Jones) – 2:46
  4. "Love Is a Lie" (McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci, Dufort, Weston-Jones) – 3:09
  5. "Can't You See?" (McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci, Dufort, Weston-Jones) – 4:55

Personnel

Band members
  • Jackie Bodimead – lead and backing vocals, keyboards
  • Kim McAulliffe – rhythm guitar, lead vocals on tracks 3, 8, backing vocals,
  • Cris Bonacci – lead guitar
  • Gil Weston-Jones – bass
  • Denise Dufort – drums
    • Production
  • Nick Tauber - producer
  • Paul O'Duffy - engineer, mixing
  • Neil Kernon - remixing of tracks 1, 2, 6

    • References

    Running Wild (album) Wikipedia
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