A Walk Across the Rooftops

A Walk Across the Rooftops
Studio album by
the Blue Nile
Released30 April 1984
Recorded1981–1983
StudioCastlesound Studios, Pencaitland, East Lothian, Scotland
Genre
Length37:47
LabelLinn, A&M
ProducerPaul Buchanan and Robert Bell
The Blue Nile chronology
A Walk Across the Rooftops
(1984) 		Hats
(1989)
Singles from A Walk Across the Rooftops
  1. "Stay"
    Released: 13 April 1984
    (reissued: 29 October 1984)
  2. "Tinseltown in the Rain"
    Released: 20 August 1984

A Walk Across the Rooftops is the debut album by Scottish band The Blue Nile, released on 30 April 1984 on Linn Records in the UK and on A&M Records in the US. Although the album was released to little fanfare and was not a big hit on its initial release, it slowly accumulated fans and sales through word of mouth as the years passed, and by the time the follow-up Hats was released in 1989, A Walk Across the Rooftops had sold 80,000 copies.[4] It continued to gather praise when reissued in 2012.

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  2. ^ a b Sodomsky, Sam (17 January 2018). "The Blue Nile - Hats". Pitchfork. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  3. ^ Crockford, J.M. (20 June 2018). "I Will Understand You: The Power of The Blue Nile". No Recess. Retrieved 16 April 2023.
  4. ^ Thomas, Philip (October 1989). "For whom the bell tolls". Q. No. 37. pp. 22–23.