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''City Boy'' is the debut album from the English rock band City Boy.


Track listing


Musicians

* Lol Mason - lead vocals,
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Mike Slamer Michael Chetwynd Slamer is a British guitarist. Biography Slamer started his career playing in the UK prog-rock band City Boy. Since then, he has worked as a staff composer for various movies and TV series, has been a session guitarist for nu ...
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rhythm Rhythm (from Greek , ''rhythmos'', "any regular recurring motion, symmetry") generally means a " movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions". This general meaning of regular re ...
guitars,
backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are ...
* Steve Broughton - rhythm and
12-string A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in o ...
guitars, lead vocals, mandolin, percussion * Max Thomas - keyboards, backing vocals, 12-string guitar * Chris Dunn - bass, backing vocals, acoustic guitar * Roger Kent - drums, percussion


Personnel

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Mick Glossop Mick Glossop is an English record producer and recording engineer. In 2009, he was awarded a Visiting Professorship at Leeds College of Music. Glossop was initially known for recording and producing for new wave and punk bands such as Magazine ...
- Engineer *
Robert John "Mutt" Lange Robert John "Mutt" Lange (born 11 November 1948) is a South African record producer and songwriter, mainly known for his work in rock music as well as his previous marriage to Canadian singer Shania Twain, for whom he wrote and produced several ...
- Producer


Cherry Red reissue

Cherry Red's Lemon Recordings announced in May 2015 plans to reissue City Boy's first four album releases as double CDs with bonus tracks. Release date is set for 17 July 2015. ''City Boy'' (disc 1) and ''Dinner At The Ritz'' (disc 2) ( City Boy's second album) are complemented by six bonus tracks on disc 1. New sleeve notes are provided by
Malcolm Dome Malcolm Dome (1955 – 29 October 2021) was an English music journalist. He wrote about rock and heavy metal from 1979. In addition to writing books, he was a journalist for ''Record Mirror'', ''Kerrang!'', ''Metal Hammer'' and ''Classic Roc ...
. Press releases inform these releases are re-mastered from original tapes, and that this is the first official release of these albums on CD.


References

1976 debut albums City Boy (band) albums Albums produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange Vertigo Records albums Mercury Records albums {{1970s-rock-album-stub