Riot in English
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| Studio album by Dale Bozzio | ||||
| Released | March 4, 1988 | |||
| Recorded | 1987 | |||
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| Length | 40:25 | |||
| Label | Paisley Park | |||
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| AllMusic |    |
Riot in English is the debut studio album by American singer Dale Bozzio. It was released on March 4, 1988 by Paisley Park Records. Bozzio began working on the album after her divorce from Terry Bozzio and the break-up of their band Missing Persons. She got signed to Prince's record label Paisley Park Records and collaborated with Robert Brookins and Attala Zane Giles on the album while co-writing most of the songs. Musically, the songs took a slightly different direction than her work with Missing Persons, incorporating more dance-pop sound rather than new wave music.
Three singles were release from the album. The lead single "Simon Simon" managed to be successful in dance charts, peaking inside the top forty on the Billboard Dance Club Songs chart. However, the following singles "Riot in English" and "Overtime" failed to chart.
Joe Viglione from AllMusic gave the album three and a half out of five stars. He praised Bozzio's lyrics saying that "she knows how to pull a chic cliché and envelope it" and also added that Prince gave her "the opportunity to prove she's as charming on record as she is in person and a talent in her own right apart from Missing Persons".
Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.
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