Fallen Angels (Fallen Angels album)

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Fallen Angels
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Fallen Angels
Released1984
RecordedNovember-December 1983
StudioAlaska Studios, Waterloo, London
Label Fall Out Records FALL LP23
Producer Knox, Iain O'Higgins
Fallen Angels chronology
Fallen Angels
(1984)
In Loving Memory
(1986)

Fallen Angels is a 1984 punk album by the band Fallen Angels, a project of Knox of The Vibrators [1] and members of Hanoi Rocks; Nasty Suicide, Sam Yaffa, Razzle, Mike Monroe, Andy McCoy. [2] [3] At the time Knox and the Hanoi Rocks shared the same manager. [4]

Contents

Issues

The original LP was issued in UK (Fall LP 23), Sweden (Sword SWA 001), Canada (Quality SV-2133) and Japan (SMS Sounds Marketing System SP25-5120) in 1984. The record was re-released on CD in 1990 in Japan (Mercury PHCR-1011), the US (Deadline CLP 0501-2), Sweden (Raw Power RP-005). [5] The CD was reissued by Fallout in the UK in 2006.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Ian M. Carnochan

  1. "Inner Planet Love"
  2. "Precious Heart"
  3. "Partners in Crime"
  4. "Housten Tower"
  5. "Amphetamine Blue"
  6. "He's a Rebel"
  7. "Black & White World"
  8. "Rain, Rain, Rain"
  9. "Falling"
  10. "Runaround"
  11. "Cuckoo Land"
  12. "Kiss It Goodbye"
  13. "New Society"
  14. "Straight City"
  15. "Vipers in the Dark"

Personnel

Fallen Angels

with:

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References

  1. Andy Gregory The International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002 p.282 1857431618 "Knox .. 1945, London, England. Singer; Musician (guitar, keyboards). Career: Lead singer, songwriter, The Vibrators; Solo artiste, 1983; Singer, songwriter, The Fallen Angels; Member, Urban Dogs. Recordings: with The Vibrators: 11 studio albums; Solo album 1983 with The Fallen Angels..."
  2. Cesare Rizzi Enciclopedia della musica rock Volume 3 – Page 242 – 2000 "HANOI ROCKS 1980 Gli Hanoi Rocks si formano a Helsinki, Finlandia, e dopo otto mesi di attività (alcuni trascorsi in Svezia) ... 1984 Suicide, Yaffa e Razzle danno vita insieme a Knox (leader dei Vibrators) al progetto Fallen Angels, pubblicando l'omonimo album, e nel frattempo giunge il tanto atteso con- tratto con una major; la CBS pubblica l'ottimo Two STEPS
  3. Sheriff Mccoy: Outlaw Legend of Hanoi Rocks 0979616301 Andy McCoy, Ike Vil - 2009 ) Fallen Angels (Fallout FALL ..."
  4. Loudersound 2015 Flash Metal Suicide: Fallen Angels "So Knox wants to make a glam record, but his band are all scuzzy punk rockers. He happens to have the same manager as Hanoi Rocks, who suggests Knox record his new album with them. I’m not even sure how they had the time, seeing as they were touring Japan and writing/recording Two Steps From the Move at the same time, but what the hell, sure Knox, Hanoi Rocks will play on your record, why not? And so, couple months later, Fallen Angels."
  5. Discogs