Standing Hampton
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| Studio album by Sammy Hagar | ||||
| Released | January 6, 1982 | |||
| Recorded | Spring-Summer 1981 | |||
| Studio | Goodnight L.A. Studios, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | Hard rock, heavy metal | |||
| Length | 42:04 | |||
| Label | Geffen | |||
| Producer | Keith Olsen | |||
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Standing Hampton is Sammy Hagar's sixth solo album, his first after moving from Capitol Records to Geffen. It was his first album to achieve RIAA certification, eventually going platinum, and five of its singles charted in either the mainstream rock or pop singles charts.
The British version of the album was released with a bonus interview 45rpm called Conversations with Sammy Hagar (Geffen XPS 133).
Hagar has said that he was originally going to call this album One Way To Rock. It was a British fan who told him of the term that came to be the title. In Cockney rhyming slang, a "Hampton" is a substitution for penis (Hampton Wick rhymes with "dick" or "prick"). One that is "standing", of course, would be a reference to an erection. This led to the cover art that shows a gentleman greeting a woman in various states of undress. The liner notes on the inner sleeve state that the cover graphics were inspired by the work of Surrealist painter Paul Delvaux.
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