''American English'' is a second studio album by

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released in 1987. It includes their biggest hit single " Bridge to Your Heart". The album cover, designed by

Storm Thorgerson Storm Elvin Thorgerson (28 February 1944 – 18 April 2013) was an English graphic designer and music video director. He is best known for closely working with the group Pink Floyd through most of their career, and also created album or other a ...

, shows objects that all refer to wax. The album was reissued in Japan in 2011 with bonus tracks including "People All Over The World",

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to " In Some Other World" single, and singles' mixes of the songs "

American English American English, sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of variety (linguistics), varieties of the English language native to the United States. English is the Languages of the United States, most widely spoken lan ...

" and "Bridge to Your Heart".

Track listing

All songs were written by

Andrew Gold Andrew Maurice Gold (August 2, 1951 – June 3, 2011) was an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer who influenced much of the Los Angeles-dominated pop rock, pop/soft rock sound in the 1970s. Gold played on scor ...

and

Graham Gouldman Graham Keith Gouldman (born 10 May 1946) is an English singer, songwriter, and musician, best known as the co-lead singer and bassist of the art rock band 10cc. He has been the band's only constant member since its formation in 1972. Before 10cc ...

, except where noted.

Side one

# "

" – 4:25 # " In Some Other World" – 4:45 # "Ready or Not" – 3:31 # "Call It Destiny" – 4:03 # " Bridge to Your Heart" – 4:14

Side two

"Share the Glory" (Paul Bliss,

Phil Palmer Philip John Palmer (born 9 September 1952) is a rock sideman and session guitarist who has toured, recorded, and worked with numerous artists. He is best known for his work with Eric Clapton and Dire Straits. Biography Palmer grew up in nort ...

) – 3:56 # "Alright Tonight" – 4:14 # "The Promise" – 3:14 # "Heaven in Her Bed" – 4:36 # "Bug in the Machine" – 4:21

Personnel

– vocals, backing vocals, keyboards, guitar on track 10, drums and programming, production on tracks 4, 9, and 10 *

– bass guitar, backing vocals, guitar on tracks 1–5, and 7–9, vocals on track 10, production on tracks 4, 9, and 10 *

Christopher Neil Christopher Neil (born 1948) is an Irish-born British record producer, songwriter, singer, and actor. He has produced records for A-ha, Amazulu, Bonnie Tyler, Celine Dion, Cher, Dollar, Edyta Górniak, Gerry Rafferty, Jennifer Rush, José C ...

– production on tracks 1–3, and 5–8, backing vocals *

– guitar on track 6 *

Adrian Lee Adrian Lee (born 9 September 1957, London, England) is an English musician, known especially for his brass instrumentation work with several well-known acts of the 1980s. Career Lee was first signed to Phonogram Records in the late 1970s as g ...

– keyboards *

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– keyboards * Paul Bliss - keyboards and programming on track 6 *

Peter Van Hooke Peter Van Hooke (born 6 April 1950) is an English rock drummer and producer with over 350 credits to his name. He was the drummer for the English band Mike + The Mechanics (from 1984 to 1995) and also drummed for Van Morrison's band, Headstone, ...

– drums and programming *

Paul Carrack Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Chris ...

– backing vocals *

Tessa Niles Tessa Margaret Niles ( ''née'' Webb; born 27 January 1961 in Ilford, Essex) is an English singer, best known as a backing singer for a wide variety of contemporary artists. She began her professional singing career in 1979. Early life and ca ...

– backing vocals * Jackie Rawe – backing vocals * Lorna Wright – voice on track 1 * Raissa Danilou – voice on track 1 * Kyoko Ono – voice on track 1 * Ruth Cuenca – voice on track 1 ;Technical * Simon Hurrell – engineer, recording engineer on tracks 1–9, mixing engineer on tracks 1–3, and 5–10 * Peter Jones – recording engineer on track 10, assistant recording engineer on tracks 1–9, assistant mixing engineer * Ian Cooper – Mastering at the Town House, London *

– design * Christopher Bissell – photography

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References

{{Authority control 1987 albums Wax (British band) albums Albums produced by Christopher Neil Albums with cover art by Storm Thorgerson Albums produced by Andrew Gold Albums produced by Graham Gouldman RCA Records albums