''Midnight Rendezvous'' is an EP by the British heavy metal band

Tokyo Blade Tokyo Blade are an English heavy metal band, active since 1982. Tokyo Blade is one of the many acts considered part of the new wave of British heavy metal (NWOBHM) movement, which lasted from the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Tokyo Blade hav ...

, released in 1984 through the UK

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Powerstation Records. The songs were recorded in early 1983 when the band was called Genghis Khan and originally released as double 7" single "Double Dealin". The four tracks of the EP, combined with four tracks of the band's first album, ''

'', were published as an LP during the same year by

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in the USA, under the title ''Midnight Rendezvous''. This EP was included in the re-release on CD of the album ''Tokyo Blade'' in 1997.

Track listing

Music by Andy Boulton, lyrics by Alan Marsh # "Midnight Rendezvous" – 3:22 # "Mean Streak" – 4:44 # "If Heaven Is Hell" – 6:00 # "Highway Passion" – 4:24

US edition LP

# "Midnight Rendezvous" - 3:22 # "Break the Chains" - 5:07 # "If Heaven Is Hell" - 6:04 # "Mean Streak" - 4:44 # "Powergame" - 4:12 # "Highway Passion" - 4:24 # "Killer City" - 5:47 # "Sunrise in Tokyo" - 5:47

Personnel

Tokyo Blade

* Alan Marsh –

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* Andy Boulton –

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* Ray Dismore–

* Andy Robbins –

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* Steve Pierce –

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Additional musicians

* John Wiggins – guitar on tracks 2, 5, 7 and 8 of the US LP

References

{{Authority control 1984 albums Tokyo Blade albums Combat Records albums 1984 EPs