Lights Out (Peter Wolf album)

Lights Out
Studio album by Peter Wolf
Released	July 1984
Studio	Syncro Sound, Boston, Massachusetts
Genre	Rock, blues rock, dance-rock, electro
Length	41:10
Label	EMI America
Producer	Peter Wolf, Michael Jonzun
Peter Wolf chronology
Lights Out (1984) Come As You Are (1987)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

Lights Out is the debut solo album by Peter Wolf, released in 1984. The album was dedicated "to the memory of Edith Marie Hasselman and Edward Mant Hood". ^[2]

Track listing

1. "Lights Out" (Don Covay, Wolf) – 4:27
2. "I Need You Tonight" (Peter Bliss, Wolf) – 3:39
3. "Oo-Ee-Diddley-Bop!" (Michael Jonzun, Wolf, Gordon Worthy) – 4:13
4. "Gloomy Sunday" (László Jávor, Sam M. Lewis, Rezső Seress) – 3:37
5. "Baby Please Don't Let Me Go" (Michael Jonzun, Maurice Starr, Wolf) – 4:02
6. "Crazy" (Michael Jonzun, Wolf) – 3:49
7. "Poor Girl's Heart" (Michael Jonzun, Wolf) – 3:04
8. "Here Comes That Hurt" (Michael Jonzun, Wolf) – 3:14
9. "Pretty Lady" (Michael Jonzun, Wolf) – 3:44
10. "Mars Needs Women" (Michael Jonzun, Wolf) – 2:41
11. "Billy Bigtime" (Michael Jonzun, Tim Mayer, Wolf) – 4:40

Personnel

• Peter Wolf – congas, vocals, backing vocals
• Robin Beck – backing vocals on "Lights Out"
• Adrian Belew – guitar
• Peter Bliss – guitar, backing vocals
• Tony "Rocks" Cowan – guitar
• Alan Dawson – percussion
• Elliot Easton – guitar
• Eddie Gorodetsky – narrator on "Mars Needs Women"
• Yogi Horton – percussion
• Mick Jagger – backing vocals on "Pretty Lady"
• Michael Jonzun – bass, flute, guitar, percussion, congas, horn, keyboards, backing vocals
• Will Lee – bass, vocals, backing vocals
• Leon Mobley – conductor, congas
• P-Funk Horns – horn section
• Rick "Rice" Peppers – guitar
• Elliott Randall – guitar
• Randy Roos – guitar
• G. E. Smith – guitar on "Pretty Lady"
• Maurice Starr – bass, guitar, backing vocals
• Ed Stasium – guitar, percussion
• Rusty "The Toe-Jammer" Pendleton – scratches on "Oo-Ee-Diddley-Bop"
• Skeeter Singletary – scratches on "Oo-Ee-Diddley-Bop"
• Gordon Worthy – bass, conga, keyboard, backing vocals

Technical personnel

• Producers: Peter Wolf, Michael Jonzun
• Engineer: Ed Stasium
• Mixing assistant: Billy Miranda
• Studio assistants: Sidney Burton, Calvin Johnson, Tom Moore
• Assistant: Gordon Worthy
• Arrangers: Peter Wolf, Michael Jonzun
• Art direction: Carin Goldberg, Henry Marquez
• Design: Carin Goldberg, Henry Marquez
• Logo design: Michael Diehl
• Photography: Carol Friedman, Ron Pownall
• Cover photo: Chris Callis

Charts

Chart performance for Light's Out

Chart	Peak
Australia (Kent Music Report) [3]	94
US Billboard 200	24

Notes

1. Lights Out at AllMusic
2. "Peter Wolf – Lights Out". Discogs .
3. Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 342. ISBN   0-646-11917-6.

External links

• Lights Out at MusicBrainz (list of releases)