Monkey on Your Back

Monkey on Your Back
"Monkey on Your Back"
Single by Aldo Nova
from the album Subject...Aldo Nova
B-side "Armageddon"
Released 1983
Format 7" single
Genre Rock
Label Portrait
Aldo Nova singles chronology
"Foolin' Yourself"
(1982)		 "Monkey on Your Back"
(1983)		 "Blood on the Bricks"
(1991)

"Monkey on Your Back" is a single by the Canadian rock musician, Aldo Nova. Released from his album Subject...Aldo Nova in 1983, the song climbed to number twelve on Billboard magazine's Album Rock Tracks chart.


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