Rock’n’Roll Juvenile

Description

Rock’n’Roll Juvenile is a studio album by the British singer and songwriter Cliff Richard, released on EMI Records in September 1979. Bryn Haworth is featured on the album playing slide guitar.

In 1979, Cliff Richard teamed up with the producer Bruce Welch for the pop hit single “We Don’t Talk Anymore,” which hit No. 1 in the UK and peaked at No. 7 in the U.S. Brian Ferry added the backing vocals to the song. The record gave Cliff Richard the distinction of becoming the first act to reach the Hot 100 in the 1980s who had also reached the Hot 100 in each of the three previous decades. The song was quickly added onto the end of his latest album Rock ‘n’ Roll Juvenile.

Cliff Richard’s biggest hit album since the mid-’70s came at a time when observers were just beginning to suspect the bubble was bursting. His last few 45s and albums had struggled to repeat the successes that had re-established him on the scene, and a handful of weaker numbers were again crawling back into his repertoire. A change of scenery, to the same Pathe Marconi studios that the Rolling Stones had then-recently been using, brought a change of direction – gone were the straightforward love songs and ballads; in their stead, Richard began flirting with a distinctly new wave influenced sound, one that was confirmed by his interest in the newly emergent songwriter B.A. Robertson. Writing alongside Terry Britten, Robertson was responsible for Rock’n’Roll Juvenile‘s two biggest hits, «Hot Shot» and the still remarkable «Carrie» – one of the most distinctive numbers Richard had recorded in more than a decade. Other numbers – «Cities May Fall», «Sci Fi», «Walking in the Light» and the album’s title track – maintained that same semi-quirky quality, while the addition of slide guitar and Mellotron to the band lineup gave the entire record such a red-hot contemporary feel that nobody could argue with the album’s name. Richard was entering his fourth decade of recording, but he sounded like a kid again. [Dave Thompson, AMG]

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LP tracklist:

Side One
A1. “Monday Thru’ Friday” – 3:41
A2. “Doing Fine” – 3:04
A3. “Cities May Fall” – 4:16
A4. “You Know That I Love You” – 2:50
A5. “My Luck Won’t Change” – 4:11
A6. “Rock ‘N’ Roll Juvenile” – 2:45

Side Two
B1. “Sci-Fi” – 3:43
B2. “Fallin In Luv” – 3:05
B3. “Carrie” – 3:41
B4. “Hot Shot” – 3:21
B5. “Language Of Love” – 4:36
B6. “We Don’t Talk Anymore” – 4:11

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and 12-inch vinyl LP by EMI. Re-issued on CD in 2001, Digitally Remastered and featuring two bonus tracks; “Walking in the Light” and “Moving In”.