''Drive'' is the debut solo album by New Zealand artist

Bic Runga Briolette Kah Bic Runga (born 13 January 1976), recording as Bic Runga, is a New Zealand singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist pop artist. Her first three studio albums debuted at number one on the Recording Industry Association of New Ze ...

, released on 14 July 1997. The album went seven times

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in New Zealand, and won the

New Zealand Music Award for Album of the Year Album of the Year is an Aotearoa Music Award that honours New Zealand music artists for outstanding album. The award was first awarded in 1973 as part of the Recording Arts Talent Awards (RATA). Singer-songwriter Bic Runga has won the award twice, ...

at the 32nd New Zealand Music Awards.

Track listing

Track listing adapted from

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Drive by Bic Runga
''Spotify''. Retrieved 3 December 2022. and CD liner notes. All tracks are written and produced by

Personnel

Credits adapted from CD liner notes. Musicians * Bic Runga – lead vocals (all tracks), arrangements (all tracks), guitars (tracks 1, 4, 6, 7, 9),

xylophone The xylophone (; ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Like the glockenspiel (which uses metal bars), the xylophone essentially consists of a set of tuned wooden keys arranged in the ...

(tracks 2, 3, 11),

Mellotron The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical musical instrument developed in Birmingham, England, in 1963. It is played by pressing its keys, each of which pushes a length of magnetic tape against a capstan, which pulls it across a playback head. A ...

(track 7), drums (track 8), backing vocals (tracks 2, 3, 7, 11) *

Peter Asher Peter Asher, (born 22 June 1944) is an English guitarist, singer, manager and record producer. He came to prominence in the 1960s as a member of the pop music vocal duo Peter and Gordon before going on to a successful career as a manager and r ...

– backing vocals (track 6) * Wayne Bell – drums (tracks 2-6, 9-11), percussion (track 4) * Sally-Anne Brown – cello (tracks 2, 7) * Paul Casserly – samples (tracks 9, 10) * Davey Fargher – bass guitar (track 7) * Jay Foulkes – percussion (track 8) *

Josh Freese Joshua Ryan Freese (born December 25, 1972) is an American session drummer. He is the son of tuba soloist Stan Freese and the older brother of musician Jason Freese. He is a member of the Vandals (since 1989) and Devo (since 1996), having forme ...

– drums (track 7) * Duncan Haynes –

Rhodes piano The Rhodes piano (also known as the Fender Rhodes piano) is an electric piano invented by Harold Rhodes, which became popular in the 1970s. Like a conventional piano, the Rhodes generates sound with keys and hammers, but instead of strings, t ...

(track 10), string arrangements (tracks 2, 4, 7) * Niall Macken – additional arrangement (tracks 2, 7, 11) * Aaron McDonald – bass (tracks 2, 3, 5, 6, 8-11) *

Boh Runga Boh Runga (born 1969/1970) is a New Zealand recording artist and was the lead singer and guitarist in New Zealand rock band Stellar. Boh is the older sister of Bic Runga and Pearl Runga who are also musicians. Early life Boh grew up in Chris ...

– backing vocals (tracks 5, 6) *

Nick Seymour Nicholas More Seymour (born 9 December 1958) is an Australian musician and record producer. He is the founding bass guitarist and a mainstay of the rock group Crowded House, and is the younger brother of Mark Seymour, singer-songwriter-guitar ...

– additional arrangement (tracks 2, 7, 11) * Malcolm Smith – keyboards (tracks 5, 9), additional samples (track 9) * Karl Steven – additional arrangement (track 4) * Andrew Thorne – guitars (tracks 2-6, 8-11), backing vocals (tracks 6, 11) * Gary Verberne – guitars (tracks 2, 11) * Kate Walshe – violin (tracks 2, 4, 7) * Matt Wallace – guitar (track 6), percussion (track 7), backing vocals (track 6) * Sarah Yates – strings (track 4) Technical * Bic Runga – production (all tracks), mixing (track 1) * Tom Banghart –

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assistance (track 7), mixing assistance (tracks 2-11) * Chris van de Geer – engineering (track 1) * Simon Sheridan – engineering (tracks 2-11) * Matt Tait – engineering assistance (tracks 2-11) * Matt Wallace – engineering (track 7), mastering (all tracks), mixing (tracks 2-11)

Track listing

Personnel

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Certifications

References

Notes

Citations