Enemy Within (album)

Enemy Within
1986 New Rose LP (FRA)
Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 1986[1]
Recorded1982 - 1985
Studio
Various
Genre
LabelNew Rose (France)
Date (Germany)
ProducerChris Spedding
Chris Spedding chronology
Friday the 13th
(1981)
Enemy Within
(1986)
Cafe Days
(1990)
Alternative cover
2009 Other Peoples Music CD

Enemy Within is the seventh solo studio album by English singer-songwriter and guitarist Chris Spedding. The album was originally released in October 1986, on the label New Rose Records in France, and in Germany on Date Records. The album was recorded over a period of three years starting in 1982, at three different recording studios. It was the six-year follow-up to his 1980 album I'm Not Like Everybody Else. The album features contributions from Tom Finn, Anton Fig, Jimmy Zoppi, David Van Tieghem, and Keith Lentin. The album was his last recording of original material for four years, until he released Cafe Days, in 1990.

When the album was released in late 1986, it received mixed reviews, and went largely unnoticed by the public, being a commercial disappointment, and even missed the album charts worldwide, alike all of his solo albums (to date).

It was later picked up for release by Repertoire Records in 2001, featuring rare bonus content. With the original album digitally remastered from the original 1/2" mix tapes; the bonus content consists of one outtake, and one live track.

  1. ^ "Chris Spedding solo album - Enemy within".