You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic
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| Studio album by Ian Hunter | ||||
| Released | 27 March 1979 | |||
| Recorded | The Power Station, New York City 1979 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Length | 42:04 | |||
| Label | Chrysalis | |||
| Producer | Mick Ronson, Ian Hunter | |||
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You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic is the fourth solo album by Ian Hunter. The album features members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band as the backing band. It is considered by many to be Hunter's best recording.
The title was dreamed up (some say spotted on a toilet wall!) by co-producer Mick Ronson which he had planned for one of his solo albums. Hunter loved the title so much that he offered Ronson co-writing credit on the first single "Just Another Night" in exchange for the use of the title for the album. "Just Another Night" reached the Billboard Hot 100 No. 68. The album became one of Hunter's biggest sellers at the time. Later, singer Barry Manilow covered the song "Ships" for his album One Voice which became a top-ten hit.
In 2009 EMI released a 30th-anniversary reissue of the album remastered with five bonus tracks on the first disc of outtakes and a second disc of live tracks recorded on the tour to support the album but previously unreleased. The reissue also came with a deluxe booklet discussing the making the album along with vintage and new interviews with Hunter.
The song "Cleveland Rocks" (originally recorded as a single for Columbia Records and entitled "England Rocks" around the time of "Overnight Angels") later became a hit when The Presidents of the United States of America re-recorded the song as the theme song to The Drew Carey Show, raising Hunter's profile and prompting the release of the album on CD.
All tracks written by Ian Hunter except where noted.
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