''Blue Rock'' is the third and final album released by
The Cross
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. Like ''
Mad, Bad and Dangerous to Know'', ''Blue Rock'' is a straight rock album which is currently out of print and has become a hard-to-find item. Spike Edney contributed a lot more to the record, writing or co-writing seven of the ten tracks of the album.
Because of the failure of their previous albums, ''Blue Rock'' was only released in Germany,
Japan, Italy (vinyl only) and France (cassette only).
Roger Taylor of Queen and The Cross rarities
''Blue Rock'', too, failed to sell many copies. This contributed to the disbanding of The Cross two years later.
Track listing
# "Bad Attitude" (Peter Noone, Clayton Moss, Spike Edney
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, Josh Macrae
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Starting with a snare drum & hi hat in Primrose Hill Primary orchestra then from school punk band in Cornwall "Inconvenience" he left sc ...
, Roger Taylor) – 4:45
# "New Dark Ages" (Roger Taylor) – 4:58
# "Dirty Mind" (Spike Edney) – 3:30
# "Baby It's Alright" (Spike Edney) – 4:06
# "Ain't Put Nothin' Down" (Moss) – 4:30
# "The Also Rans" (Roger Taylor) – 5:27
# "Millionaire" (Moss, Spike Edney, Noone, Macrae) – 3:43
# "Put it All Down to Love" (Spike Edney) – 3:34
# "Hand of Fools" (Noone, Spike Edney) – 4:31
# "Life Changes" (Moss, Noone, Spike Edney, Macrae) – 5:56
Non-Album Track
# "Heartland" (Noone) 4:45
Personnel
* Roger Taylor – lead vocals
* Spike Edney
Philip "Spike" Edney (born 11 December 1951) is an English musician who, since the 1960s, has performed with a number of bands, most notably with Queen in their live concerts, where his participation started in 1984 during Queen's The Works t ...
– keyboards, backing vocals
* Clayton Moss- guitars, backing vocals
* Peter Noone – bass guitar, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Heartland"
* Josh Macrae
Joshua J Macrae (born 1964 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an English drummer, audio engineer and record producer.
Starting with a snare drum & hi hat in Primrose Hill Primary orchestra then from school punk band in Cornwall "Inconvenience" he left sc ...
– drums, backing vocals
*Geoffrey Richardson - viola, violin
*Helen Liebman - cello
*Candy Yates - backing vocals
*Clare Yates - backing vocals
References
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1991 albums
The Cross (band) albums