Breakdown Dead Ahead

"Breakdown Dead Ahead"
Single by Boz Scaggs
from the album Middle Man
B-side"Isn't It Time"
ReleasedMarch 1980
Recorded1979
GenreRock
Length
  • 4:06 (radio edit)
  • 4:35 (LP version)
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Bill Schnee
Boz Scaggs singles chronology
"Hollywood"
(1978)
"Breakdown Dead Ahead"
(1980)
"Jojo"
(1980)

"Breakdown Dead Ahead" is a 1980 song recorded by Boz Scaggs, and composed by Scaggs and David Foster. It was the lead single of two released from Scaggs's album Middle Man.

During May, the song reached number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 12 on the Cash Box Top 100.[1] The song was a bigger hit in Canada, where it spent two weeks at number eight on the Pop chart.[2]

  1. ^ "CASH BOX Top 100 Singles". Tropicalglen.com. May 31, 1980. Archived from the original on December 24, 2016. Retrieved February 7, 2017.
  2. ^ "Image : RPM Weekly". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 17 July 2013. Retrieved 12 August 2018.