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Length
  
42:04

Release date
  
27 March 1979

Genre
  
Rock music

Artist
  
Ian Hunter

Label
  
Chrysalis Records

Producers
  
Mick Ronson, Ian Hunter

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Released
  
27 March 1979 (1979-03-27)

Recorded
  
The Power Station, New York City 1979

You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic(1979)
  
Welcome to the Club(1980)

Similar
  
Ian Hunter albums, Rock music albums

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You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic is the fourth solo album by Ian Hunter. The album features members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band as the backing band. It is considered by many to be Hunter's best recording.

Contents

The title was dreamed up (some say spotted on a toilet wall) by co-producer Mick Ronson which he had planned for one of his solo albums. Hunter loved the title so much that he offered Ronson co-writing credit on the first single "Just Another Night" in exchange for the use of the title for the album. "Just Another Night" reached the Billboard Hot 100 No. 68. The album became one of Hunter's biggest sellers at the time. Later, singer Barry Manilow covered the song "Ships" for his album One Voice which became a top-ten hit.

In 2009 EMI released a 30th-anniversary reissue of the album remastered with five bonus tracks on the first disc of outtakes and a second disc of live tracks recorded on the tour to support the album but previously unreleased. The reissue also came with a deluxe booklet discussing the making the album along with vintage and new interviews with Hunter.

The song "Cleveland Rocks" (originally recorded as a single for Columbia Records and entitled "England Rocks" around the time of "Overnight Angels") later became a hit when The Presidents of the United States of America re-recorded the song as the theme song to The Drew Carey Show, raising Hunter's profile.

Track listing

All tracks written by Ian Hunter except where noted.

Side one
  1. "Just Another Night" (Hunter, Mick Ronson) – 4:36
  2. "Wild East" – 3:58
  3. "Cleveland Rocks" – 3:48
  4. "Ships" – 4:11
  5. "When the Daylight Comes" – 4:27
Side two
  1. "Life After Death" – 3:49
  2. "Standin' in My Light" – 4:35
  3. "Bastard" – 6:37
  4. "The Outsider" – 5:57

Deluxe Edition track listing

Disc 1
  1. "Just Another Night"
  2. "Wild East"
  3. "Cleveland Rocks"
  4. "Ships"
  5. "When the Daylight Comes"
  6. "Life After Death"
  7. "Standin' in My Light"
  8. "Bastard"
  9. "The Outsider"
  10. "Don't Let Go" [Demo]
  11. "Ships" [Take 1]
  12. "When The Daylight Comes" [Early Version]
  13. "Just Another Night" [Early Version] (aka "The Other Side of Life")
  14. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"
Disc 2
  1. "F.B.I." – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79
  2. "Once Bitten Twice Shy" – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79
  3. "Life After Death" – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79
  4. "Sons and Daughters" – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79
  5. "Laugh at Me" – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79
  6. "Just Another Night" – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79
  7. "One of the Boys" – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79
  8. "Letter to Brittania from Union Jack" – Live in Berkeley 7/7/79
  9. "Bastard" – Live in Berkeley 7/7/79
  10. "All the Way from Memphis" – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79
  11. "Cleveland Rocks" – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79
  12. "All the Young Dudes" – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79
  13. "When the Daylight Comes" – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79
  14. "Sweet Angeline" – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79

Personnel

  • Ian Hunter – lead vocals, guitar, piano, Moog, ARP, organ, harmony vocals, percussion
  • Mick Ronson – guitars, dual lead vocals on "When the Daylight Comes", harmony vocals, percussion
  • Roy Bittan – ARP, organ, Moog, piano, harmony vocals
  • Max Weinberg – drums
  • Garry Tallent – bass
  • John Cale – piano & ARP on "Bastard"
  • George Young – tenor saxophone
  • Lew Delgatto – baritone saxophone
  • Ellen Foley – harmony vocals
  • Rory Dodd – harmony vocals
  • Eric Bloom – harmony vocals

    • Production

  • Mastered by George Marino at Sterling Sound, NYC
  • Bob Clearmountain - engineer
  • Don Berman, Scott Litt - additional recording
  • Georgina Karvellas - illustration

    • Songs

    1Just Another Night4:36
    2Wild East3:59
    3Cleveland Rocks3:49

    References

    You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic Wikipedia
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