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The Impossible (album)

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Released
  
1981

Release date
  
1981

Label
  
Virgin Catalogue

Artist
  
Ken Lockie

Producer
  
Steve Hillage

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Genres
  
New wave, Pop music, Electropop

The Impossible is the only solo album of English singer Ken Lockie, after dissolving his band, Cowboys International, in 1980. It was released by Virgin Records, in 1981, and was recorded with the help of two of the former Lockie bandmates in Cowboys International, guitarist Stevie Shears and drummer Paul Simon, and other known musicians, like John McGeoch of Siouxsie and the Banshees (guitar), John Doyle (drums), Preston Heyman of Tom Robinson Band (drums), Joe Dworniak of Shake Shake! and I-Level (bass), Jim Kerr of Simple Minds (backing vocals) and Nash the Slash.

Contents

A side

  1. "Dance House"
  2. "Theme of the Impossible"
  3. "Footsteps"
  4. "Under My Skin"
  5. "Twisting"

B side

  1. "Too Much & Too Little"
  2. "Stiletto"
  3. "Tenderness of Fools"
  4. "Puppet"
  5. "As Good as Gold"

Personnel

  • Ken Lockie - lead vocals, keyboards
  • Stevie Shears - guitar
  • John McGeoch - guitar
  • Joe Dworniak - bass
  • Lee Robertson - bass (only B1)
  • Paul Simon - drums (B1)
  • John Doyle - drums (A2, B2, B3, B5)
  • Preston Heyman - drums (A1, A3, A4, B4)
  • Jim Kerr - backing vocals

    • Songs

    1Dance House2:55
    2Theme of the Impossible4:34
    3Footsteps3:18

    References

    The Impossible (album) Wikipedia
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