The Nature of the Beast (album)

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Nature Of The Beast
Nature Of The Beast cover
Studio album by April Wine
Released 1981 (1981)
Recorded Le Manoir Studios, Shipton-on-Cherwell, England
Genre Rock, hard rock
Length 37:00
Label Aquarius, Capitol, EMI
Producer Myles Goodwyn, Mike Stone
April Wine chronology
Review and Preview
(1981)		 Nature Of The Beast
(1981)		 Power Play
(1982)

Nature of the Beast is the ninth studio album by Canadian rock band April Wine, released in 1981. The album was recorded in at Le Manoir Studios,[1] in the village of Shipton-on-Cherwell, in Oxfordshire, England following the band's 1981 European tour.[2] This album was April Wine's commercial peak, selling over one million copies in the US and reaching #24 on the Billboard Album Charts.

"Just Between You and Me" became April Wine's most successful single, reaching #21 on the Billboard Singles Chart and #11 on Rock Tracks chart.

April Wine's version of the Lorence Hud song "Sign of the Gypsy Queen" also became a moderate hit, reaching #57 on the Billboard Singles Chart and #19 on Billboard's Rock Tracks chart. Hud's original version of the song had also been a hit single in Canada in 1972 (#16 RPM charts).

The first track on the album, "All Over Town" also received airplay on AOR radio stations, charting at #29 on Billboard's Rock Tracks chart.

[edit] Track listing

All Tracks written by Myles Goodwyn unless otherwise noted.

  1. "All Over Town"
  2. "Tellin' Me Lies"
  3. "Sign of the Gypsy Queen" (Lorence Hud)
  4. "Just Between You and Me"
  5. "Wanna Rock"
  6. "Caught in the Crossfire"
  7. "Future Tense"
  8. "Big City Girls"
  9. "Crash and Burn"
  10. "Bad Boys"
  11. "One More Time"

[edit] Personnel

[edit] References

  1. ^ aprilwine.ca - April Wine Discography - The Nature of the Beast, 1981 (Information section)
  2. ^ canadianbands.com - April Wine Biography (eleventh paragraph) - quote: "April Wine traveled to England to record..."


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April Wine
Myles Goodwyn • Brian Greenway • Jerry Mercer • Breen LeBoeuf
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Studio albums
April Wine (1971) • On Record (1972) • Electric Jewels (1973) • Stand Back (1975) • The Whole World's Goin' Crazy (1976) • Forever for Now (1977) • First Glance (1978) • Harder ... Faster (1979) • The Nature of the Beast (1981) • Power Play (1982) • Animal Grace (1984) • Walking Through Fire (1986) • Attitude (1993) • Frigate (1994) • Back to the Mansion (2001) • Roughly Speaking (2006)
Live albums
Live! (1974) • Live at the El Mocambo (1977) • Ladies Man (1980) • One for the Road (1985) • Greatest Hits Live 1997 (1997) • I Like to Rock (2002) • Greatest Hits Live 2003 (2003)
Compilation albums
Greatest Hits (1979) • The Best of April Wine: Rock Ballads (1981) • Review and Preview (1981) • The Hits (1987) • All the Rockers (1987) • We Like to Rock (1988) • The First Decade (1989) • Oowatanite (1990) • The April Wine Collection (1992) • Champions of Rock (1996) • Rock Champions (2000) • Classic Masters (2002) • Best of April Wine (2003) • April Wine Rocks! (2006)
Video and DVD
Singles
"Fast Train" (1971) • "Just Between You and Me" (1981)