British Lions (album)

British Lions
Studio album by
Released10 February 1978
GenreRock
Length74:29
LabelVertigo/RSO
ProducerBritish Lions
British Lions chronology
Shouting and Pointing
(1976)
British Lions
(1978)
Trouble with Women
(1980)
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Review scores
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Allmusic[1]

British Lions is the 1978 debut album by British Lions, the band consisting mainly of members of MottMorgan Fisher, Ray Major, Pete Overend Watts and Dale Griffin—alongside singer/guitarist John Fiddler, previously of Medicine Head.[2] It was released on the Vertigo label in the UK and the RSO label in the United States. A single "One More Chance to Run" b/w "Booster" was released by Vertigo in the UK to promote the album. In the US, the track, "Wild in the Streets" went to #87 on the Hot 100.[3]

"One More Chance to Run" was covered by Joe Elliott's Down 'n' Outz on their 2010 album My ReGeneration.

  1. ^ "British Lions - British Lions". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  2. ^ "British Lions - Music Biography, Credits and Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 March 2013.
  3. ^ Whitburn, Joel (2013). Joel Whitburn’s Top Pop Singles, 14th Edition: 1955-2012. Record Research. p. 110.