Pirates (Rickie Lee Jones album)

Pirates
Pirates
Studio album by Rickie Lee Jones
Released	July 15, 1981
Recorded	January 1980 – April 1981
Studio	Warner Bros. Recording Studios, North Hollywood, California
Genre	Rock
Length	38:38
Label	Warner Bros.
Producer	Lenny Waronker; Russ Titelman;
Rickie Lee Jones chronology

Pirates is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Rickie Lee Jones, released on July 15, 1981, by Warner Bros. Records. The follow-up to her 1979 self-titled debut album, Pirates is partially an account of her break-up with fellow musician Tom Waits after the success of her debut album. The cover is a 1976-copyrighted photo by Brassaï.^[1]

The album peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard 200^[2] and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America on September 30, 1981, for sales of 500,000 copies.^[3] The album remained on the UK album charts for three months, and was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry.

^ "Brassaï and his night scenes of Paris". Sein Sigma. 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2022-02-01. I learned Brassaï thanks to the 1981 album "Pirates" by American singer-songwriter Ricky [sic] Lee Jones. The photo on the cover showed two lovers locking eyes in the dark of the night; the image and the white of the couple's breath were a brilliant match for the album's intimate and languid vocal. Fascinated, I searched the album credit's for the name of the photographer capable of taking such a photo, and that became my first encounter with the name "Brassaï."
^ "US Albums and Singles Charts > Rickie Lee Jones". Billboard. Archived from the original on August 27, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2020.
^ "American certifications – Rickie Lee Jones". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on July 2, 2022. Retrieved July 2, 2022.

[1] "Brassaï and his night scenes of Paris". Sein Sigma. 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2022-02-01. I learned Brassaï thanks to the 1981 album "Pirates" by American singer-songwriter Ricky [sic] Lee Jones. The photo on the cover showed two lovers locking eyes in the dark of the night; the image and the white of the couple's breath were a brilliant match for the album's intimate and languid vocal. Fascinated, I searched the album credit's for the name of the photographer capable of taking such a photo, and that became my first encounter with the name "Brassaï."

[billboard-2] "US Albums and Singles Charts > Rickie Lee Jones". Billboard. Archived from the original on August 27, 2017. Retrieved January 3, 2020.

[RIAA-3] "American certifications – Rickie Lee Jones". Recording Industry Association of America. Archived from the original on July 2, 2022. Retrieved July 2, 2022.

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