Boys Will Be Boys!

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Boys Will Be Boys
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Studio album by
Released1975
Recorded1974–1975
StudioRPM Studios, Johannesburg
Genre Rock
Label Jo'Burg Records
Producer Trevor Rabin, Julian Laxton, Patrick van Blerk
Rabbitt chronology
Boys Will Be Boys
(1975)
A Croak and a Grunt in the Night
(1976)
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Boys Will Be Boys! is the debut studio album by South African rock band Rabbitt, released in 1975 on Jo'Burg Records. The album reached gold certification in the country faster than any other previously released album in South Africa at the time. It also earned the group a Sarie Award in the Best Contemporary Pop category. In 1989, Boys Will Be Boys! was reissued in Germany and the United States.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Something's Going Wrong with My Baby" (Trevor Rabin) — 4:45
  2. "Savage" (Rabin) — 4:43
  3. "Lifeline" (Patrick van Blerk, Rabin) — 6:00
  4. "Locomotive Breath" (Ian Anderson) — 3:35
  5. "Hard Ride" (Rabin) — 4:05
  6. "Baby's Leaving" (Rabin) — 2:20
  7. "Eventides" (Rabin) — 2:34
  8. "Looking for the Man" (Van Blerk, Rabin) — 4:00
  9. "Death of Tulio" (Rabin) — 0:22
  10. "Charlie" (Van Blerk, Rabin) — 2:35
  11. "Brand New Love"* (Rabin) — 3:38
  12. "Auld Lang Syne"* (Traditional) — 1:18

Personnel

Rabbitt

Additional personnel

Production

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