''Company of Strangers'' is the first and only

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by Australian supergroup Company of Strangers. The album was recorded in 1992, and first released in Australia in December 1992. It peaked at number 9 on the

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and was certified gold. Simon Hussey won the ARIA Award for Producer of the year for his work on this album at the

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. The album was also nominated for ' Breakthrough Artist' but lost to "Ordinary Angels" by

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Track listing

Personnel

Simon Hussey Simon Cyril Hussey (born 7 July 1960) is an Australian multi-instrumentalist, songwriter-arranger, record producer and audio engineer. In 1984 he formed Cats Under Pressure on keyboards with David Reyne (ex-Australian Crawl) on vocals and Mark ...

- keyboards, drums, bass synth, backing vocal * Jef Scott - vocals (tracks 1,4,7,8,10,11,12,14,15), electric and acoustic guitars, drums, bass *

James Reyne James Michael Nugent Reyne OAM (born 19 May 1957) is an Australian rock musician and singer-songwriter both in solo work and, until 1986, with the band Australian Crawl. Biography Early years Reyne was born in Lagos, Nigeria. His father, Ro ...

- vocals (tracks 1,3,6,10,11), acoustic guitar *

Daryl Braithwaite Daryl Braithwaite (born 11 January 1949) is an Australian singer. He was the lead vocalist of Sherbet (1970–1984 and many subsequent reunions). Braithwaite also has a solo career, placing 15 singles in the Australian top 40, including t ...

- vocals (tracks 1,2,3,11)

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Trivia

* James Reyne recorded an acoustic version of " Daddy's Gonna Make You a Star" for his 2007 album ''

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''. * "

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" appeared on Reyne's upcoming Live CD/DVD - ''

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''. * "Should Have Known Better / Very Light Hell" is listed on the track listing as 14a and 14b, rather than simply 14. * All tracks on the album cross-fade / over-lap with the following / previous track.

References

1992 albums Company of Strangers (band) albums {{1990s-rock-album-stub