Heads or Tales

Infobox Album
Name = Heads or Tales
Type = studio
Longtype =
Artist = Saga


Released = September 1983
Recorded = The Farmyard, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, England
Genre = Pop
Length = 39:53
Label = Portrait
Producer = Rupert Hine
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ygjn7iojg78r link]
Last album = "Worlds Apart"
1981
This album = "Heads or Tales"
1983
Next album = "Behaviour"
1985

"Heads Or Tales" is the fifth studio album by the Canadian progressive rock band Saga and was originally released in 1983. The album was the second of the band's to be produced by 1980s producer Rupert Hine. Although it did not receive the commercial success of the previous collaboration between the band and Hine, both "The Flyer" and "Cat Walk" became respectable radio hits for the band, with a third single from the album, "Scratching the Surface", making a regular appearance in the band's concert line-up during the late-1990s and 2000s as a piano solo played by singer Jim Gilmour during a break by the other band members.

Track listing

# "The Flyer" (Jim Crichton, Michael Sadler) – 3:41
# "Cat Walk" (J. Crichton, Jim Gilmour, Ian Crichton) – 4:25
# "The Sound of Strangers" (Sadler, J. Crichton, Gilmour, I. Crichton, Steve Negus) – 4:08
# "The Writing" (J. Crichton, Sadler) – 4:12
# "Intermission" (Sadler, J. Crichton, I. Crichton) – 5:27
# "Social Orphan" (Sadler, J. Crichton) – 3:23
# "The Vendetta (Still Helpless)" (Sadler, J. Crichton, Gilmour, I. Crichton)– 3:44
# "Scratching the Surface" (Gilmour, J. Crichton) – 5:15
# "The Pitchman" (J. Crichton, Sadler, I. Crichton, Gilmour, Negus) – 5:38

Personnel

* Michael Sadler - lead vocals, keyboards
* Jim Crichton - bass guitar, keyboards
* Jim Gilmour - lead keyboards, vocals, sax, lead vocal on "Scratching the Surface"
* Ian Crichton - guitar
* Steve Negus - drums, percussion, electronic percussion