Blue Rock (album)

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Blue Rock
Blue Rock cover
Studio album by The Cross
Released 9 September 1991
Recorded February-August 1991 at Real World Studios
Genre Rock
Length 45:00
Label EMI Electrola
Producer Mark Wallis
Professional reviews

All Music Guide 3/5 stars [1]

The Cross chronology
"Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know"
(1990)
"Blue Rock"
(1991)

Blue Rock was the third and last album released by The Cross. Just like Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know Blue Rock is a straight rock album. Spike Edney contributed a lot more to the record (he wrote or co-wrote 7 of the 10 tracks of the album).
Sadly, because of the failure of their previous albums, Blue Rock was only released in selected countries.
Blue Rock was only issued in Germany, Japan, Italy (vinly only) and France (cassette only).[1]
Among fans, Blue Rock is considered one of best solo albums by a Queen member, yet this one failed too to sell many copies. This contributed to the disbanding of The Cross two years later.

Just like Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know this album is out of print and it became a hard to find item.

[edit] Track list

  1. "Bad Attitude" (Noone/Moss/Edney/Macrae/Taylor) - 4:45
  2. "New Dark Ages"(Taylor) - 4:58
  3. "Dirty Mind" (Edney) - 3:30
  4. "Baby It's Alright" (Edney) - 4:06
  5. "Aint Put Nothin' Down" (Moss) - 4:30
  6. "The Also Rans" (Taylor) - 5:27
  7. "Millionaire" (Moss/Edney/Noone/Macrae) - 3:43
  8. "Put it All Down to Love (Edney) - 3:34
  9. "Hands of Fools (Out of Control) (Noone/Edney) - 4:31
  10. "Life Changes" (Moss/Noone/Edney/Macrae) - 5:56

[edit] Personel

Roger Taylor: lead vocals
Clayton Moss: guitars
Peter Noone: bass
Spike Edney: keyboards
Josh Macrae: drums

[edit] References

  1. ^ Roger Taylor of Queen and The Cross rarities