Blue Rock (album)

Infobox Album
Name = Blue Rock
Type = studio
Artist = The Cross


Released = 9 September, 1991
Recorded = February-August 1991 at Real World Studios
Genre = Rock
Length = 45:00
Label = EMI Electrola
Producer = Mark Wallis
Reviews = Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:0ifqxqthldje]
Last album = "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know"
(1990)
This album = "Blue Rock"
(1991)
Next album =

Blue Rock was the third and last album released by The Cross. Like "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know" Blue Rock is a straight rock album.Spike Edney contributed a lot more to the record (he wrote or co-wrote seven of the ten tracks of the album).
Sadly, because of the failure of their previous albums, Blue Rock was only released in selected countries.
Blue Rock was only issued in Germany, Japan, Italy (vinyl only) and France (cassette only). [ [http://rogertaylor.info/discogrcross.html#shove Roger Taylor of Queen and The Cross rarities ] ]
Among fans, Blue Rock is considered one of best solo albums by a Queen memberFact|date=September 2008, yet this one failed too to sell many copies. This contributed to the disbanding of The Cross two years later.

Like "Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know" this album is "out of print" and it became a hard to find item.

Track list

#"Bad Attitude" (Noone/Moss/Edney/Macrae/Taylor) - 4:45
#"New Dark Ages"(Taylor) - 4:58
#"Dirty Mind" (Edney) - 3:30
#"Baby It's Alright" (Edney) - 4:06
#"Aint Put Nothin' Down" (Moss) - 4:30
#"The Also Rans" (Taylor) - 5:27
#"Millionaire" (Moss/Edney/Noone/Macrae) - 3:43
#"Put it All Down to Love (Edney) - 3:34
#"Hands of Fools (Out of Control) (Noone/Edney) - 4:31
#"Life Changes" (Moss/Noone/Edney/Macrae) - 5:56

Personnel

Roger Taylor: lead vocals
Clayton Moss: guitars
Peter Noone: bass

Spike Edney: keyboards
Josh Macrae: drums

References