Cicero Park

Cicero Park
Studio album by
Hot Chocolate
ReleasedJune 1974 (1974-06)
StudioMorgan, London
GenreSoul[1]
Length40:38 (UK)
  • 42:34 (international)
  • 96:43 (with bonus CD)
LabelRAK, Big Tree (US)
ProducerMickie Most
Hot Chocolate chronology
Cicero Park
(1974) 		Hot Chocolate
(1975)
Singles from Cicero Park
  1. "Emma"
    Released: 25 February 1974
  2. "Changing World"
    Released: May 1974
  3. "Disco Queen"
    Released: 25 April 1975

Cicero Park is the debut album by British soul band Hot Chocolate. It was released in June 1974 on the RAK Records label, owned by Mickie Most, who was the band's producer. The album peaked at number fifty-five on the US Billboard 200 album chart.[2]

The original 1974 LP release comprised ten original songs by the band's writing team, lead vocalist Errol Brown and bassist Tony Wilson. The album included the group's first major international hit, "Emma" and "Disco Queen". Cicero Park did not contain the song "Brother Louie", which had been a 1973 US hit for the American band Stories, though the song replaced "Bump And Dilly Down" on US, Canada, Japan, and New Zealand editions of the album. The Hot Chocolate version of "Brother Louie" was later issued on CD as part of the 2009 Cicero Park bonus disc.

The album was issued on CD for the first time in an expanded 25-track 2-disc set in 2009.

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  2. ^ "Hot Chocolate". AllMusic. Retrieved 30 December 2011.