Hobo with a Grin

Hobo with a Grin is a debut solo album by Steve Harley of Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, released in July 1978.^[2]

Track listing

All songs written by Steve Harley unless noted.

1. "Roll the Dice" - 3:31 (Harley, Jo Partridge)
2. "Amerika the Brave" - 4:56
3. "Living in a Rhapsody" - 4:22 (Jim Cregan, Harley, Duncan Mackay)
4. "I Wish It Would Rain" - 3:20 (Roger Penzabene, Barrett Strong, Norman Whitfield)
5. "Riding the Waves (For Virginia Woolf)" - 4:34
6. "Someone's Coming" - 4:36 (Harley, Jo Partridge)
7. "Hot Youth" - 2:52
8. "(I Don't Believe) God is an Anarchist" - 7:24
9. "Faith, Hope and Charity" - 4:01

2000 re-reissue bonus tracks

10. "Spaced Out" - 3:01
11. "That's My Life in Your Hands" (live) - 3:39 (Harley, Hugh Nicholson)

Personnel

• Steve Harley - lead vocals, producer
• Ian Bairnson - acoustic guitar, guitar
• Marc Bolan - guitar
• Jim Cregan - acoustic guitar, guitar, backing vocals
• Tom Moncrieff - guitar
• Jo Partridge - guitar
• Greg Poree - guitar
• Fred Tackett - acoustic guitar
• Herbie Flowers - acoustic bass, bass
• George Ford - bass, backing vocals
• Bob Glaub - bass
• Alan Jones - bass
• Reggie McBride - bass
• Michael James Jackson - piano, percussion, producer, mixing
• Duncan Mackay - keyboards, strings, electric piano, harpsichord, synthesizer bass, overdubs
• Bill Payne - organ, piano, design
• Chris Mercer - saxophone
• Stuart Elliott - drums
• Ricky Fataar - drums
• Paul Humphrey - drums
• James Isaacson - drums, engineer, remixing
• Rick Shlosser - drums
• Chris Caron - percussion
• Lindsey Elliott - percussion
• Luis Jardim - percussion
• Simon Morton - percussion
• Rosemary Butler - backing vocals
• Bill Champlin - backing vocals
• Gloria Jones - backing vocals
• Yvonne Keeley - backing vocals
• Tom Kelley - backing vocals
• Roy Kenner - backing vocals
• Bobby Kimball - backing vocals
• Michael McDonald - backing vocals, design
• Barry St. John - backing vocals
• John Townsend - backing vocals, design
• King Errisson - conductor
• Jimmy Horowitz - horn arrangements, string arrangements
• Tony Clark - engineer
• John Haeny - engineer
• Peter James - engineer
• Gary Ladinsky - engineer
• Haydn Bendall - assistant engineer
• Paul Black - assistant engineer
• Jim Shea - photography

References