''Stop!'' is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Sam Brown, released on 8 June 1988 by

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. It includes Brown's biggest and best-known single, the title track " Stop!".

Background

Produced by Sam Brown, her brother Pete Brown, Pete Smith, Danny Schogger, and John Madden, the album was recorded at the

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in London, with then-

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member

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's guitar parts on " This Feeling" and "I'll Be in Love" being recorded at Greene Street Studios in New York City. The track "Merry Go Round" has lyrics slightly adapted from

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poem "

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". The CD edition of the album includes cover versions of

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's "

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" and

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's "

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Release and reception

On release, the album was received favourably by the majority of music critics. Brown's most commercially successful album, it went on to peak at number four on the

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and reached number 13 on the Australian

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. The album also reached the top 10 in countries such as Austria, the Netherlands, and New Zealand. The album spawned three charting singles in the United Kingdom. " Stop!" peaked at number four on the

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; "This Feeling" peaked at number 91; "

" at number 15. The album has sold over two and a half million copies worldwide. The album has been certified gold by the

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(BPI) and platinum by

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Track listing

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. ;"Walking Back to Me" * Sam Brown –

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of t ...

;

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

*Pete Brown – lesley

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

;

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 use ...

*Paul Bangash – guitar *Richard Newman –

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

Jim Leverton Jim Leverton (born 1946, Dover, Kent, England) is an English professional musician, with a career spanning nearly fifty years, including as a sidesman to the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Noel Redding, Steve Marriott, Blodwyn Pig and the Canterbur ...

–

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

*Danny Schogger –

keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

*Phil Saatchi – backing vocals ;"Your Love Is All" *Sam Brown – lead vocals *

Jakko Jakszyk Michael "Jakko" Jakszyk (born Michael Lee Curran, 8 June 1958) is an English musician, record producer, and actor. He has released several solo albums as a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist and has been the lead singer for King Crims ...

– guitar; backing vocals *

Gavin Harrison Gavin Richard Harrison (born 28 May 1963) is an English musician. He is best known for playing with the progressive rock bands Porcupine Tree (2002–2010; 2021–present), King Crimson (2008, and 2014–present) and The Pineapple Thief (2016� ...

– drums;

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*Ed Poole – bass guitar *

Pandit Dinesh Pandit Dinesh (born 29 May 1955) is a music composer and percussionist specializing in Indian rhythms. He uses the tabla, conga drums, and more. Dinesh is known for his collaborations with West India Company, Dizrhythmia, The Pax Trio, and Blanc ...

– Indian percussion *

Andy Price Andy Price is a British television and film composer. He has scored more than 50 films for television and more than 25 productions for theatres around the country, including the Bristol Old Vic, National Youth Theatre and the RSC. Price has com ...

– 1st

violin The violin, sometimes known as a ''fiddle'', is a wooden chordophone (string instrument) in the violin family. Most violins have a hollow wooden body. It is the smallest and thus highest-pitched instrument (soprano) in the family in regular ...

*Mark Watson – 2nd violin *Kate Musker –

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*Peter Esswood –

cello The cello ( ; plural ''celli'' or ''cellos'') or violoncello ( ; ) is a Bow (music), bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), t ...

Vicki Brown Vicki Brown (23 August 1940 – 16 June 1991) was an English pop, rock and contemporary classical singer. She was a member of both The Vernons Girls and The Breakaways and was the first wife of fellow singer and musician Joe Brown and mother o ...

– backing vocals *Pete Brown – backing vocals *Kevin Malpass – string arrangements ;"Stop!" *Sam Brown – lead vocals; string arrangements *Jakko Jakszyk – guitar *Gavin Harrison – drums *Ed Poole – bass guitar *Kevin Malpass –

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated s ...

; string arrangements * Bob Andrews – Hammond organ solo *Andy Price – 1st violin *Mark Walton – 2nd violin *Kate Musker – viola *Peter Esswood – cello *Vicki Brown – backing vocals *

Margo Buchanan Margo Buchanan is a Scottish singer-songwriter, composer, musician, and recording artist. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Buchanan is best known for her work as a session backing vocalist. Early years Margo Buchanan was born in Lanark, ...

– backing vocals ;"It Makes Me Wonder" *Sam Brown – lead vocals *

Phil Palmer Philip John Palmer (born 9 September 1952) is a rock sideman and session guitarist who has toured, recorded, and worked with numerous artists. He is best known for his work with Eric Clapton and Dire Straits. Biography Palmer grew up in nor ...

– guitars *Roland Kerridge – drums *Ian Maidman – bass guitar *Paul Fishman – keyboards *Danny Cummings – percussion *Vicki Brown – backing vocals *Margo Buchanan – backing vocals *Phil Saatchi – backing vocals *Helen Chappelle – backing vocals *Pete Smith – backing vocals ;"This Feeling" *Sam Brown – lead vocals *

– guitar *Richard Newman – drums *Jim Leverton – bass guitar *Danny Schogger – piano; keyboards;

piano accordion A piano accordion is an accordion equipped with a right-hand keyboard similar to a piano or organ. Its acoustic mechanism is more that of an organ than a piano, as they are both aerophones, but the term "piano accordion"—coined by Guido Deiro ...

*Pete Brown –

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

s *Vicki Brown – backing vocals ;"Tea" *Sam Brown – lead vocals *Danny Schogger – all keyboards ;"Piece of My Luck" *Sam Brown – lead vocals *Jakko Jakszyk – acoustic guitar *Gavin Harrison – drums *

Danny Thompson Daniel Henry Edward Thompson (born 4 April 1939) is an English multi-instrumentalist best known as a double bassist. He has had a long musical career playing with a large variety of other musicians, particularly Richard Thompson and John Mart ...

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double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

* Bobby Valentino – violin *Julian Stringle –

clarinet The clarinet is a musical instrument in the woodwind family. The instrument has a nearly cylindrical bore and a flared bell, and uses a single reed to produce sound. Clarinets comprise a family of instruments of differing sizes and pitches ...

*Alan Wickham –

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitched one octave below the standard ...

*Rex O'Dell –

trombone The trombone (german: Posaune, Italian, French: ''trombone'') is a musical instrument in the Brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player's vibrating lips cause the Standing wave, air column ...

*Pete Brown – backing vocals *Richard Newman – backing vocals ;"Ball and Chain" *Sam Brown – lead vocals *Jakko Jakszyk – guitar *Gavin Harrison – drums *Ed Poole – bass guitar *Bob Andrews – Hammond organ *Danny Schogger – keyboards *Vicki Brown – backing vocals ;"Wrap Me Up" *Sam Brown – lead vocals *Jakko Jakszyk – guitars *Paul Bangash – guitar solo * Charlie Morgan – drum programming *Richard Newman – hooligan drums *Danny Schogger – keyboards *Pete Brown – backing vocals ;"I'll Be In Love" *Sam Brown – lead vocals *David Gilmour – guitar *Danny Schogger – all keyboards; programming;

arrangement In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orches ...

s ;"Merry Go Round" *Sam Brown – lead vocals; all other keyboards *Danny Schogger – keyboard effects *Paul Bangash – guitar *Pete Brown – programming *

Jim Abbiss Jim Abbiss is a British music producer, best known for his work on records including the debut album of Editors ('' The Back Room''), Arctic Monkeys' Mercury Music Prize winning debut album, '' Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not'', ...

– programming; Russian strings ;"Sometimes You Just Don't Know" *Sam Brown – lead vocals; piano *Jakko Jakszyk – guitar; backing vocals *Pete Brown – guitar; backing vocals *Danny Schogger – keyboards *Gavin Harrison – drums *Ed Poole – bass guitar *Paul Bangash – backing vocals ;"Can I Get a Witness" *Sam Brown – lead vocals * Joe Brown –

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

*Phil Palmer –

rhythm guitar In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar ...

*Roland Kerridge – drums *Ian Maidman – bass guitar *Kenny Craddock – Hammond organ *Danny Cummings – percussion *Stuart Brooks – trumpet *John Huckridge – trumpet *Dave Hancock – trumpet * Chris Pyne – trombone *Pete Smith – trombone *Chris Dean – trombone *

Stan Sulzmann Stanley Ernest Sulzmann (born 30 November 1948) is an English jazz saxophonist. Biography He was born in London, England. Sulzmann began playing the saxophone at age of 13 and played in 1964 Bill Ashton's London Youth Jazz Orchestra, later ...

–

saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed on a mouthpiece vibrates to pr ...

Jamie Talbot James Robert Talbot (born 23 April 1960 in London) is an English jazz alto saxophonist. Talbot played with the London Schools Symphony Orchestra and then with the National Youth Jazz Orchestra. He attended the Royal College of Music during 1978� ...

– saxophone *Jeff Daly – saxophone *Vicki Brown – backing vocals *Margo Buchanan – backing vocals *Phil Saatchi – backing vocals *Helen Chappelle – backing vocals *Pete Smith – backing vocals *Billy Vanderpuye – backing vocals ;"High as a Kite" *Sam Brown – lead vocals *Jakko Jakszyk – guitars *Gavin Harrison – drums;

marimba The marimba () is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars that are struck by mallets. Below each bar is a resonator pipe that amplifies particular harmonics of its sound. Compared to the xylophone, the timbre ...

*Ed Poole – bass guitar *Danny Schogger – piano; keyboards *Andy Price – 1st violin *Mark Walton – 2nd violin *Kate Musker – viola *Peter Esswood – cello *Vicki Brown – backing vocals *Margo Buchanan – backing vocals *Kevin Malpass – string arrangements ;"Nutbush City Limits" *Sam Brown – lead vocals *Joe Brown – rhythm guitar *Paul Bangash – wah-wah guitar *Richard Newman – drums *Jim Leverton – bass guitar *Danny Schogger – keyboards * Steve Sidwell – trumpet *Simon Gardner – trumpet *Pete Beachill – trombone *Jamie Talbot – tenor saxophone *Dave Bishop – baritone saxophone *

Martin Ditcham Martin Ditcham is an English drummer, percussionist and songwriter. Ditcham is a prolific session musician, working with artists such as Henry Cow, Status Quo, Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Roger Daltrey, Sade, Mary Black, Nik Kershaw, Chris ...

– percussion *Vicki Brown – backing vocals *Andy Caine – backing vocals *Kevin Malpass – brass arrangement

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Release history

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stop! (album) 1988 debut albums A&M Records albums Sam Brown (singer) albums