''X'' is the debut studio album released by the melodic

hard rock Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard ...

band Ten.

Track listing

All songs written by

Gary Hughes Gary Hughes (born 5 July 1964) is an English hard rock singer, songwriter and musician. Apart from his work as a solo artist, Gary Hughes is the front man and main songwriter of Hard Rock/Melodic Rock band Ten. He has also worked as a produce ...

except where noted. # "The Crusades/It's All About Love" – 8:06 (Gary Hughes,

Vinny Burns Vinny Burns (born 4 April 1965, Oldham, Lancashire) is an English hard rock guitarist and producer, best known for his work with the bands Dare (band), Dare, Ten (band), Ten and Bob Catley. He has also been a member of Asia (band), Asia, Ultrav ...

) # "After the Love Has Gone" – 5:27 # "Yesterday Lies In the Flames" – 5:06 # "The Torch" – 5:25 # "Stay With Me" – 5:52 # "Close Your Eyes and Dream" – 6:24 # "Eyes of a Child" – 5:02 # "Can't Slow Down" – 5:29 # "Lamb to the Slaughter" – 4:50 # "Soliloquy/The Loneliest Place In the World" – 10:30 2015 japanese SHM-CD remaster (AVALON MICP-11208) bonus track: #

"Beautiful Miss Understood" - 4:32

Personnel

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and

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 ...

–

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 ...

s *Greg Morgan –

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 ...

and

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

*Mark Harrison –

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 ...

*Lee Goulding –

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 ...

*Howard Smith – keyboards *Andy Thompson – keyboards *Francis Cummings –

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*Peter Leighton-Jones – first violin *John Wade – first violin *Fiona Payne – second violin *Julia Parsons – second violin *Jean Ambrose –

viola The viola ( , also , ) is a string instrument that is bow (music), bowed, plucked, or played with varying techniques. Slightly larger than a violin, it has a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of ...

*Anne Morrison –

*Anna Frazer –

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 ...

Production

*Executive Producers – Mark Ashton and Vinny Burns *Mixing – Mike Stone *Engineer – Mike Stone, Audu Obaje, Ray Brophy, Gavin Fernie and Kirk Podmore

References

External links

Heavy Harmonies page
{{Authority control Ten (band) albums 1996 debut albums Albums produced by Mike Stone (record producer)