The Magazine (album)

The Magazine is an album by Rickie Lee Jones, released in September 1984. It is her third full-length studio album, and was released as the follow-up to Pirates (1981). The album was partly composed in France.

1 Genesis
2 Track listing
3 Personnel
4 Charts
5 Miscellanea

[edit] Genesis

After the release of Pirates in July 1981, Jones spent 1982 on the road on tour before kicking her addiction to heroin and cocaine. A 10-inch EP, Girl At Her Volcano, had been released in 1983 and Jones took up residence in Paris in April 1983 for four months. It was also in Paris that Jones kicked her alcohol habit. She told Timothy White in Musician in 1984: "I started drinking...more heavily than I had ever drunk in my life...I think I went to Paris to put it together."

Jones had been working on fragments of songs, such as "Juke Box Fury" and "Gravity," since 1981, before finding more inspiration in Paris. The first full song written was "Deep Space," precipitating a spurt of creativity from October 1983. Recording work for the album began on January 18, 1984 and was completed on June 1 before a September release date.

The album ends with a musical suite entitled "Rorschachs."

[edit] Track listing

All songs written, arranged and composed by Rickie Lee Jones, excepted when noted

"Prelude to Gravity"
"Gravity"
"Juke Box Fury"
"It Must Be Love"
"Magazine"
"The Real End"
"Deep Space"
"Runaround"
"Rorschachs (Theme for the Pope)" (Sal Bernardi, Jones) - Instrumental on CD releases, vocal on some vinyl and cassette
"The Unsigned Painting/The Weird Beast"

[edit] Personnel

Rickie Lee Jones - vocals, piano, synthesizer, horn arrangement

Victor Feldman - percussion
James Newton Howard - synthesizer, string arrangements
Sal Bernardi - acoustic guitar, vocals
Michael Boddicker - synthesizer, programming
Lenny Castro - percussion
Nick DeCaro - accordion
Nathan East - bass
Buzz Feiten - guitar
Steve Gadd - drums
Jerry Hey - horn, horn arrangements
David Hungate - bass
Neil Larsen - organ, DX-7 synthesizer, wurlitzer
Steve Lukather - guitar
Marty Paich - string arrangements
Jeff Porcaro - drums
Dean Parks - guitar
Jeff Pevar - guitar, mandolin
Greg Phillinganes - Fender Rhodes

[edit] Charts

Album

Year	Chart	Position
1984	US Billboard 200	44
1984	Top Jazz Albums	20
1984	UK album chart	40

Singles - Billboard

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1984	"The Real End"	The Billboard Hot 100	82

[edit] Miscellanea

The original title for "Prelude to Gravity" was "Things Made of Glass" and was written originally to accompany a short story Jones had written about two girls who keep their most prized possessions in jars. The song was written partly in Paris and partly in London.
Jones had written fragments of "Juke Box Fury," "Gravity," and "Runaround" in 1981.
"The Real End" and "It Must Be Love" were two of the later inclusions.