Boys and Girls (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Boys and Girls
Type = studio
Artist = Bryan Ferry


Released = start date|1985|6
Recorded = start date|1985, AIR Studios, Hampstead, London; Compass Point Studios, New Providence, The Bahamas; Effanel Mobile; RPM Studios, New York; Sarm West Studios, London; The White House, New South Wales, Australia; The Power Station, New York cite web |url=http://moo.vivaroxymusic.com/651 |title=Boys and Girls |accessdate=2008-08-27 |work=These Vintage Years]
Genre = Pop
Length = 38:24
Label = E'G
Producer = Bryan Ferry, Rhett Davies
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:40d4vwzva9yk link]
*Robert Christgau (B-) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv12-85.php Dec. 3, 1985]
*"Rolling Stone" (equivocal) [http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/bryanferry/albums/album/243347/review/5944768/boys_and_girls Jul 18, 1985]
Last album ="The Bride Stripped Bare" (1978)
This album ="Boys And Girls" (1985)
Next album ="Bête Noire" (1987)
Misc = Singles
Name = Boys and Girls
Type = studio
Single 1 = Slave to Love
Single 1 date = start date|1985
Single 2 = Don't Stop the Dance
Single 2 date = start date|1985

"Boys and Girls" is Bryan Ferry's the sixth solo album, released in 1985, by E'G (see 1985 in music). It was Ferry's only #1 album in the UK, cite web |url=http://www.everyhit.com |title=UK Top 40 Hit Database |accessdate=2008-08-27 ] and contains two charting singles as well.

The album was remastered in 2000, and was released in SACD in 2005.

Track listing

All songs written by Bryan Ferry except as noted.
# "Sensation" – 5:07
# "Slave to Love" – 4:26
# "Don't Stop the Dance" (Ferry and Rhett Davies) – 4:19
# "A Waste Land" – 1:02
# "Windswept" – 4:31
# "The Chosen One" – 4:51
# "Valentine" – 3:47
# "Stone Woman" – 4:56
# "Boys and Girls" – 5:25

Personnel

*Bryan Ferry - vocals
*Guy Fletcher - keyboards
*David Gilmour - guitar
*Omar Hakim - drums

Additional personnel

*Neil Hubbard - guitar
*Neil Jason - bass
*Chester Kamen - guitar
*Mark Knopfler - guitar
*Tony Levin - bass
*Jimmy Maelen - percussion
*Martin McCarrick - cello
*Marcus Miller - bass
*Andy Newmark - drums
*Nile Rodgers - guitar
*David Sanborn - saxophone
*Keith Scott - guitar
*Alan Spenner - bass
*Anne Stephenson - strings
*Jon Carin - keyboards
*Virginia Hewes - backing vocals
*Ednah Holt - backing vocals
*Fonzi Thornton - backing vocals
*Ruby Turner - backing vocals
*Alfa Anderson - backing vocals
*Michelle Cobbs - backing vocals
*Yanick Etienne - backing vocals
*Colleen Fitz-Charles - backing vocals
*Lisa Fitz-Charles - backing vocals
*Simone Fitz-Charles - backing vocals

Technical Personnel

*Rhett Davies – recording engineer
*Bob Clearmountain – recording engineer, mixing engineer
*Neil Dorfsman – recording engineer
*Femi Jiya – recording engineer
*Dominick Maita – recording engineer
*Brian McGee – recording engineer
*Andy Lydon – recording engineer
*Benjamin Armbrister – assistant engineer
*Carb – assistant engineer
*Steve Churchyard – assistant engineer
*Randy Ezratty – assistant engineer
*Dave Greenberg – assistant engineer
*Kevin Killan – assistant engineer
*Heff Moraes – assistant engineer
*Peter Revill – assistant engineer
*Kendal Stubbs – assistant engineer
*Robert Ludwig – mastering engineer

Charts

Album

Notes

succession box
before = "Our Favourite Shop" by The Style Council
title = UK number one album
years = June 15, 1985 – June 28, 1985
after = "Misplaced Childhood" by Marillion