Breaking All the Rules (Peter Frampton album)

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Breaking All the Rules
Studio album by Peter Frampton
Released	14 May 1981
Recorded	November 1979 – June 1980
Studio	The Charlie Chaplin Sound Stage at A&M Studios (Los Angeles)
Genre	Hard rock
Length	42:19
Label	A&M
Producer	Peter Frampton, David Kershenbaum, Chris Kimsey, Harvey Goldberg
Peter Frampton chronology
Where I Should Be (1979) Breaking All the Rules (1981) The Art of Control (1982)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[3]

Breaking All the Rules is the seventh studio album by English musician Peter Frampton, released on 14 May 1981 by A&M Records.

Background

Breaking All the Rules featured a raw live in the studio approach like its 1980 predecessor Rise Up , which was a Brazilian EP release to promote Peter Frampton's concert tour in Brazil in 1980. Rise Up in fact served as a proto-version of Breaking All the Rules, as the latter album features re-recordings of nearly all tracks on Rise Up, including its title track, which features an almost entirely different lineup of musicians; only Frampton and bassist John Regan appeared on both versions of "Rise Up".

The album had won airplay for its anthemic title track, which was co-written with Procol Harum lyricist Keith Reid. The album's cover was photographed at 350 W 23rd Street, Chelsea, New York City. ^[4] The album features Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro of Toto.

Track listing

All tracks written by Peter Frampton except where indicated.

1. "Dig What I Say" – 4:13
2. "I Don't Wanna Let You Go" – 4:22
3. "Rise Up" (Alessi Brothers) – 3:46
4. "Wasting the Night Away" – 4:13
5. "Going to L.A." – 6:05
6. "You Kill Me" – 4:18
7. "Friday on My Mind" (George Young, Harry Vanda) – 4:18
8. "Lost a Part of You" – 3:43
9. "Breaking All the Rules" (Frampton, Keith Reid) – 7:17

Charts

Chart (1981)	Peak position
Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart [5]	89

Personnel

• Peter Frampton – guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Steve Lukather – guitar
• John Regan – bass guitar
• Arthur Stead – piano, synthesizer, electric piano, organ, Fender Rhodes
• Jeff Porcaro – drums, percussion

References

1. "Breaking All the Rules Review by Joe Viglione". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
2. Larkin, Colin (2011). "Frampton, Peter". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). London: Omnibus Press. p. 1,832. ISBN   978-0-85712-595-8.
3. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 261.
4. "Musical Maps".
5. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 117. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.