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Personnel

  • Laura Branigan – vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Beth Anderson – vocals, background vocals
  • Robbie Buchanan
    Robbie Buchanan
    Robbie Buchanan is a Canadian keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, and producer.Buchanan began playing the piano at the age of 6. He acquired his first paying gig as a pianist at the age of 12 playing 6 nights a week in Dawson City, Yukon Territory. While still a teenager, Buchanan joined a band...

     – synthesizer
    Synthesizer
    A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...

    , piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

  • Bill Champlin
    Bill Champlin
    William Bradford "Bill" Champlin is an American singer, guitarist, keyboard player, arranger, producer, and songwriter. His performance work is principally associated with the bands Chicago and the Sons of Champlin...

     – vocals, background vocals
  • Joe Chemay – vocals, background vocals
  • Nathan East
    Nathan East
    Nathan Harrell East is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego...

     – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Harold Faltermeyer
    Harold Faltermeyer
    Harold Faltermeyer is a German musician, keyboardist, composer and record producer.He is recognized as one of the composers/producers who best captured the zeitgeist of 1980s synth-pop in film scores...

     – synthesizer
  • Tommy Funderburk
    Tommy Funderburk
    Tommy Funderburk is an American rock and roll singer. He has recorded with artists such as Jon Anderson, Laura Branigan, Coverdale-Page, Melissa Manchester, Magnum, Mötley Crüe, Steve Lukather, Richard Marx, Rick Springfield, Starship, REO Speedwagon, Whitesnake, Yes and many others.Funderburk was...

     – vocals, background vocals
  • Steve George
    Steve George
    Steve George may refer to:*Steve George , keyboardist for pop band Mr. Mister*Steve George , bassist for Swervedriver...

     – vocals, background vocals
  • Jim Haas – background vocals
  • Dann Huff
    Dann Huff
    Dann Huff is an American musician, session musician, singer-songwriter and producer. For his work as a producer in the Country music genre he has won several awards including the Musician of the Year award in 2001 and 2004 at the Country Music Association Awards and the Producer of the Year award...

     – guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

  • Paul Jackson Jr. – guitar
  • Gary Cook Bykov - vocals
  • Jon Joyce – vocals, background vocals
  • Tom Kelly – vocals, background vocals
  • Jürgen Koppers - engineer
  • Michael Landau
    Michael Landau
    Michael Landau is a prolific session musician and guitarist who has played on a large number of albums since the early 1980s with artists as varied as Seal, James Taylor, Helen Watson, Richard Marx, Steve Perry, Pink Floyd and Miles Davis...

     – guitar
  • Richard Page
    Richard Page
    Richard Lewis Page is a former Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and from December 1979 to 2005.-Early life:He is the son of Victor Charles Page...

     – vocals, background vocals
  • Cesar Garcia – vocals, background vocals
  • Bartholomew DeVoygeur – vocals, background vocals
  • Myrdyn Gaad – vocals, background vocals
  • Joe Pizzulo
    Joe Pizzulo
    Joe Pizzulo is best known as one of the lead singers for Sérgio Mendes in the 1980s. He had hit singles with "Never Gonna Let You Go" and "Alibis"...

     – vocals, background vocals
  • John "J.R." Robinson
    John Robinson (drummer)
    John Robinson is an American drummer and session musician...

     – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

  • Carlos Vega – drums
  • Larry Williams
    Larry Williams (horn player)
    Larry Williams is an American horn player. He has distinguished himself as a multifaceted musician whose artistry led the late Philip Farkas , to describe him as "an outstanding artist-soloist with fine tone, excellent intonation, superb accuracy, and superior musicianship".Ebony magazine listed Mr...

    saxophone
    Saxophone
    The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...


Production

  • Producers: Robbie Buchanan, Jack White
  • Recorded at: Image Recording Inc. (Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

    ), Music Grinder (Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles, California
    Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

    ) and Arco Studios (Munich, Germany)
  • Engineer: Jürgen Koppers

Chart performance

Chart (1984) Peak
position
Austrian Albums Chart 16
Canadian Albums Chart 13
Dutch Albums Chart 48
German Albums Chart 5
New Zealand Albums Chart 38
Norwegian Albums Chart 3
Swedish Albums Chart 5
Swiss Albums Chart 2
UK Albums Chart 16
U.S. Billboard 200 23
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