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| You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic | ||||
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| Released | 27 March 1979 | |||
| Recorded | 1979 | |||
| Studio | Power Station, New York City | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 42:04 | |||
| Label | Chrysalis | |||
| Producer | Mick Ronson, Ian Hunter | |||
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You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic is the fourth solo studio album by Ian Hunter. The album featured members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band as the backing band. AllMusic considers the album to be Hunter's best.[1]
Hunter says that the title had been spotted on a toilet wall by co-producer Mick Ronson, who planned to use it for one of his solo albums.[2] Hunter loved the title so much that he offered Ronson co-writing credit on the first single "Just Another Night" in exchange for the use of the title for the album. "Just Another Night" reached the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 68. The album became one of Hunter's biggest sellers at the time.
In 2009, EMI released a 30th-anniversary reissue of the album remastered with five bonus tracks on the first disc of outtakes and a second disc of live tracks recorded on the tour to support the album but previously unreleased. The reissue also came with a deluxe booklet discussing the making of the album, along with vintage and new interviews with Hunter.
The song "Cleveland Rocks" (originally recorded as a single for Columbia Records and entitled "England Rocks" around the time of "Overnight Angels") later became a hit when The Presidents of the United States of America re-recorded the song as the theme song to The Drew Carey Show in 1997, raising Hunter's profile. Also, singer Barry Manilow covered the song "Ships" for his album One Voice which became a top-ten hit.
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