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, released in 1990. A music video was made for "Don't Wait for Me", directed by future film director

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Track listing

Personnel

*Carl Albert –

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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 ...

*Geoff Thorpe –

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, producer *Mark McGee – guitars,

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

, backing vocals *Dave Starr – bass *Larry Howe –

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;Production *Mike Houghes – back cover logo concept *Geoff Thorpe – producer, mixing *Howie Weinberg – mastering *Anthony Ranieri –

design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design'' ...

*Jay Janini –

photography Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film. It is employed ...

*Michael Rosen – producer,

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, mixing *Peggy Donnelly – A&R coordination *Mark McGee – producer (assistant), mixing *Bob Defrin –

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*Stan Woch – front cover logo concept *Don Brautigam – front & back

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vicious Rumors (Vicious Rumors Album) 1990 albums Vicious Rumors albums Atlantic Records albums