Anyone Can Fly

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Anyone Can Fly
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Studio album by
Released1982
Recorded1981-82
StudioRock City Sound Studios, Shepperton Studio Centre, England
Genre Folk, rock
Length36:49
Label Global Records and Tapes 0063-234
Producer Norman "Hurricane" Smith
Denny Laine chronology
Japanese Tears
(1980)
Anyone Can Fly
(1982)
Hometown Girls
(1985)

Anyone Can Fly is the title of the fourth solo album by Denny Laine.

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Denny Laine

Side one

  1. "Running Round In Circles" 4.03
  2. "Be Together" 5.07
  3. "Who Moved the World?" 3.59
  4. "Racing Cars" 4.19

Side two

  1. "Various Shapes and Forms" 4.39
  2. "I Always Thought" 4.09
  3. "Could Not Believe" 3.23
  4. "Anyone Can Fly" 5.08

Personnel

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