''Screaming Blue Murder'' is the third studio album by British heavy metal band,

Girlschool Girlschool are a British rock band that formed in the new wave of British heavy metal scene in 1978. Frequently associated with contemporaries Motörhead, they are the longest-running all-female rock band, still active after more than 40 yea ...

. It was released on

Bronze Records Bronze Records was an independent English record label founded in 1971 by record producer Gerry Bron on Oxford Street in London, eventually relocating to Chalk Farm. History Bron had been producing Uriah Heep for Vertigo Records, and he set up ...

in 1982, and featured one line-up change in bassist Ghislaine 'Gil' Weston, formerly of The Killjoys, replacing the recently departed founding member Enid Williams. Nigel Gray, who had previously worked with

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, produced the album. The original vinyl issue had the lyrics printed on the inner sleeve, although in the UK initial copies were accidentally shipped with a plain, generic liner. Rock magazine ''

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'' relayed, from

, the advice to write to the label so that they could post the missing lyric sheet in return. The UK-release was somewhat delayed, and the band had already started their 20-date UK tour, which ran through May 1982. Castle Music issued what is considered the definitive edition of the CD 14 June 2004, adding eleven bonus tracks and extensive sleevenotes by Record Collector magazine's Joe Geesin. The album had previously been issued on a 2-on-1 CD in the UK, coupled with ''Play Dirty''; that release (LOMA CD4) featured no bonus material.

Track listing

*Tracks 12-21 are a BBC Radio 1 In Concert broadcast, recorded live in London on June 9th, 1982. These tracks had previously not been made commercially available.

Credits

;Band members * Kim McAuliffe – rhythm guitar, lead vocals on tracks 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 * Kelly Johnson – lead guitar, lead vocals on tracks 1, 4, 6, 9 * Enid Williams – bass, lead vocals on track 11 * Gil Weston – bass, lead vocals on tracks 7, 10 * Denise Dufort – drums ;Production * Nigel Gray – producer, engineer

Charts

References

External links

Official Girlschool discography
{{Authority control Girlschool albums 1982 albums Bronze Records albums Mercury Records albums Albums produced by Nigel Gray