Eastern Wind

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Eastern Wind
Eastern Wind (Chris de Burgh album) front cover.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1980
Genre Rock
Length38:36
Label A&M
Producer David Anderle
Chris de Burgh chronology
Crusader
(1979)
Eastern Wind
(1980)
Best Moves
(1981)

Eastern Wind is singer/songwriter Chris de Burgh's fifth studio album, released in 1980. It did not make the UK Albums Chart or Billboard 200, but reached No. 1 in Norway in May 1981, and was at the time the second best-selling album in Norway after Abbey Road by the Beatles. [1]

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Chris de Burgh

  1. "The Traveller" – 4:11
  2. "The Record Company Bash" – 3:54
  3. "Tonight" – 3:28
  4. "Wall of Silence" – 3:48
  5. "Flying Home" – 3:59
  6. "Shadows and Lights" – 3:11
  7. "Sailor" – 4:15
  8. "Some Things Never Change" – 3:14
  9. "Tourist Attraction" – 3:09
  10. "Eastern Wind" – 5:17

Personnel

Production

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References

  1. The Q Rock Stars Encyclopedia by Dafydd Rees and Luke Crampton, Dorling-Kindersley 1999, page 277