Heartburn (album)

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Heartburn
Kevin Coyne Heartburn.jpg
Studio album by
Released1976
Genre Rock
Label Virgin
Producer Norman Smith
Kevin Coyne chronology
Let's Have A Party
(1976)
Heartburn
(1976)
In Living Black and White
(1977)

Hertburn is a studio album by musician Kevin Coyne, his ninth, released in 1976 on the Virgin label.

Contents

Background

The album cover, designed by Hipgnosis, depicts someone jumping off a building. [1] [2] A poster for release was also produced, by Cooke Key Associates, from photographs by Brian Cooke/Redferns. [3]

The track "Don't Make Waves" (b/w "Mona Where's My Trousers") was issued as a single in 1976 [4] and the songs "Shangri-la" and "Daddy" we both used as B-sides for singles the same year. [5] [6]

Reception

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Track listing

All songs written by Kevin Coyne except where noted.

Side 1

  1. "Strange Locomotion" (Coyne, Cudworth) – 3:28
  2. "Don't Make Waves" – 2:50
  3. "Happy Band" – 2:36
  4. "I Love My Mother" (arr. Graham Preskett; Summers, Coyne) – 4:40
  5. "Shangri-La" – 5:26

Side 2

  1. "America" – 4:07
  2. "Big White Bird" – 2:05
  3. "Games Games Games" – 5:32
  4. "My Mother's Eyes" (Baer, lyrics by Gilbert) – 3:27
  5. "Daddy" – 4:12

Personnel

Musicians

Technical

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