Lita (album)

Lita
Studio album by Lita Ford
Released	February 2, 1988
Recorded	1987
Studio	Record One, Los Angeles
Genre	Hair metal [1]
Length	40:15
Label	RCA Records
Producer	Mike Chapman
Lita Ford chronology
Dancin' on the Edge (1984) Lita (1988) Stiletto (1990)
Singles from Lita
"Kiss Me Deadly" / "Broken Dreams" Released: April 1988 "Back to the Cave" (remix) / "Under the Gun" Released: November 1988 "Close My Eyes Forever" (remix) / "Under the Gun" Released: February 1989 "Falling In and Out of Love" (remix) / "Fatal Passion" Released: 1989

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal	4/10 [3]
Kerrang!	[4]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[5]

Lita is the third solo studio album by American glam metal singer and guitarist Lita Ford. Released in February 1988, it was her first for RCA Records and her first published with the supervision of new manager Sharon Osbourne. Musicians Don Nossov and Myron Grombacher, who were best known for being the rhythm section of the successful American singer Pat Benatar, joined Ford for the recording sessions while Charles Dalba and Tommy Caradonna played drums and bass guitar during the promotional tour.

The album is Ford's most successful, reaching No. 29 on the US Billboard 200 chart and being certified platinum. ^[6] It produced the hit singles "Close My Eyes Forever" (a duet with Ozzy Osbourne) and "Kiss Me Deadly" which peaked at numbers 8 and 12 respectively on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. ^[7] "Kiss Me Deadly" was named the 76th best hard rock song of all time by VH1. ^[8]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Back to the Cave"	Mike Chapman, David Ezrin, Lita Ford	4:01
2.	"Can't Catch Me"	Ezrin, Ford, Lemmy Kilmister	3:58
3.	"Blueberry"	Chapman	3:47
4.	"Kiss Me Deadly"	Mick Smiley	4:01
5.	"Falling In and Out of Love"	Ezrin, Ford, Nikki Sixx	5:07

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Fatal Passion"	Ezrin, Ford, Punky Peru	4:41
7.	"Under the Gun"	Ford	4:48
8.	"Broken Dreams"	Ezrin, Ford	5:12
9.	"Close My Eyes Forever"	Ford, Ozzy Osbourne	4:42

Personnel

Band members

• Lita Ford – guitar, vocals
• David Ezrin – keyboards
• Don Nossov – bass guitar
• Myron Grombacher – drums

Additional musicians

• Craig Krampf – additional percussion and drums
• Ozzy Osbourne – duet vocals on "Close My Eyes Forever"
• Llory McDonald, Mike Chapman – background vocals

Production

• Mike Chapman – producer
• George Tutko – engineer, mixing at Village Recorders and One on One Recording Studios, Los Angeles
• Brett Swain, Charlie Brocco, Jimmy Hoyson, Toby Wright – assistant engineers
• George Marino – mastering at Sterling Sound, New York
• Ria Lewerke – art direction
• Moshe Brakha – photography

Charts

Chart performance for Lita

Chart (1988)	Peak position
Canada Top Albums/CDs ( RPM ) [9]	42
Finnish Albums (The Official Finnish Charts) [10]	38
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [11]	45
US Billboard 200 [12]	29

Certifications

Certifications for Lita

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [13]	Gold	50,000^
United States (RIAA) [14]	Platinum	1,000,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

1. Bukszpan, Daniel (2003). The encyclopedia of heavy metal. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. p. 74. ISBN   0-7607-4218-9. OCLC   51804645.
2. Huey, Steve. "Lita Ford Lita review". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved October 7, 2011.
3. Popoff, Martin (November 1, 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 125. ISBN   978-1894959315.
4. Watts, Chris (February 6, 1988). "Don't De-Lita". Kerrang! . Vol. 173. London, UK: Spotlight Publications.
5. The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 257.
6. "Lita Ford Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard . Retrieved July 9, 2023.
7. "Lita Billboard Singles". AllMusic . Rovi Corporation . Retrieved July 16, 2013.
8. "Vh1 Top 100 Hard Rock Songs". Spreadit. January 1, 2009. Archived from the original on February 12, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
9. "Top RPM Albums: Issue 8276". RPM . Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
10. Pennanen, Timo (2006). Sisältää hitin – levyt ja esittäjät Suomen musiikkilistoilla vuodesta 1972 (in Finnish) (1st ed.). Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava. ISBN   978-951-1-21053-5.
11. "Charts.nz – Lita Ford – Lita". Hung Medien. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
12. "Lita Ford Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved June 30, 2024.
13. "Canadian album certifications – Lita Ford – Lita". Music Canada . Retrieved August 23, 2022.
14. "American album certifications – Lita Ford – Lita". Recording Industry Association of America . Retrieved August 23, 2022.