''Going Deaf for a Living'' is a
1980
Events January
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album by
Fischer-Z
Fischer-Z are a British rock group and main creative project of singer, guitarist and poet John Watts. In 1982 Watts temporarily dissolved Fischer-Z and started a solo career under his own name. John Watts has gone on to release both solo and ...
. This was the second album by Fischer-Z featuring the "classic line-up". The guitar on this album was made more prominent, after their rather keyboard prominent debut. This album, as well the following ''
Red Skies Over Paradise'', are considered by fans as the best work to be produced by Fischer-Z. The album featured the singles "Room Service", "Crazy Girl", "Limbo" and the most popular "So Long", which hit #72 in the UK singles chart, #15 in Australia
and #26 in the Netherlands.
"So Long" was the first single by Fischer-Z to have a video made for it, and still garners regular airplay on radio stations in
Europe
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,
and Australia.
Track listing
All songs written by John Watts
#"Room Service"
#"So Long"
#"Crazy Girl"
#"No Right"
#"Going Deaf For A Living"
#"Pick Up/Slip Up"
#"Crank"
#"Haters"
#"Four Minutes in Durham (With You)"
#"Limbo"
Charts
Personnel
;Fischer-Z
*John Watts - lead vocals, guitar
*Steve Skolnik - keyboards
*David Graham - bass
*Steve Liddle - drums
;Technical
*Richard Manwaring - engineer
*John Pasche - sleeve, art direction, design
*Phil Jude - cover photography
References
1980 albums
Fischer-Z albums
Albums produced by Mike Howlett
United Artists Records albums
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