Friends (Shalamar album)

Friends
Studio album by Shalamar
Released	January 29, 1982
Recorded	1981
Studio	Studio Masters Larrabee Sound The Record Plant Kendun Recorders (Los Angeles)
Genre	Urban soul R&B post-disco
Length	44:55
Label	SOLAR
Producer	Leon Sylvers III
Shalamar chronology
Go for It (1981) Friends (1982) The Look (1983)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
BBC	favorable[2]
Robert Christgau	B−[3]

Friends is the sixth album by American R&B group Shalamar, released in 1982 on the SOLAR label. The album, which features the 'classic' Shalamar line-up (Jeffrey Daniel, Howard Hewett and Jody Watley), topped the R&B chart and peaked at #35 on the Billboard chart. It has been certified Gold in the United States for sales over 500,000. It would eventually go Platinum. In the United Kingdom Friends gained impetus from a now-legendary demonstration of body-popping by Daniel during a performance of "A Night to Remember" on the BBC programme Top of the Pops. It reached #6 on the UK Albums Chart and produced four top 20 singles.

In 2002, Friends was re-released by Sanctuary Records in the United Kingdom in a double-CD package with Shalamar's previous album Go for It.