- Bloody Tourists
Infobox Album |
Name = Bloody Tourists
Type =Album
Artist =10cc
Released = September 1 1978
Recorded = atStrawberry Studios South Dorking, Surrey, England
Genre = Rock
Length = 49:57
Label = Mercury
Producer = Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|2|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:reazqj7bojaa~T1 link]
Last album = "Deceptive Bends "
(1977)
This album = "Bloody Tourist"
(1978)
Next album = "Look Hear? "
(1980)"Bloody Tourists" was the sixth studio album by
10cc and the second to be produced following the band's 1976 split. It yielded the singles "Dreadlock Holiday ", which reached No.1 in the UK in August 1978, and "Reds In My Bed", which did not chart."Dreadlock Holiday" was inspired by
The Moody Blues singerJustin Hayward 's experiences while on holiday in the Caribbean. [http://www.minestrone.org/article004.htm]"Bloody Tourists", which featured cover art created by
Hipgnosis , reached No.3 in the UK album charts and No. 69 in the United States.Track listing
# "
Dreadlock Holiday " (Graham Gouldman ,Eric Stewart ) – 4:31
# "For You and I" (Gouldman) – 5:25
# "Take These Chains" (Gouldman, Stewart) – 2:41
# "Shock on the Tube (Don't Want Love)" (Stewart) – 3:48
# "Last Night" (Rick Fenn , Gouldman) – 3:20
# "Anonymous Alcoholic" (Gouldman, Stewart) – 5:51
# "Reds in My Bed" (Stewart,Stuart Tosh ) – 4:14
# "Lifeline" (Gouldman) – 3:30
# "Tokyo" (Stewart) – 4:33
# "Old Mister Time" (Duncan Mackay , Stewart) – 4:36
# "FromRochdale toOcho Rios " (Gouldman) – 3:48
# "Everything You Wanted to Know About!!!" (Stewart) – 4:31Personnel
*
Graham Gouldman — organ, bass, guitar, percussion, electric piano, tambourine, vocals
*Eric Stewart — guitars, piano, piano, moog synthesizer, vocals
*Rick Fenn — guitar, vocals
* Paul Burgess — percussion, vonga, drums, glockenspiel, marimba, tambourine, timbales, triangle, bells, drums, vibraphone, backing vocals
*Duncan Mackay — synthesizer, piano, violin, keyboards, electric piano, backing vocals
*Stuart Tosh — drums, percussion, tambourine, vocals, bells
* Kate Spath — cello
* Tony Spath — piano
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