Mick Jones (album)

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Mick Jones
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Studio album by
Released7 August 1989 [1]
Recorded1988–89
Studio Atlantic Studios, The Hit Factory, Electric Lady Studios, Clinton Recording Studios and Skyline Studios (New York City, New York); Blue Wave Recording Studios (St. Phillip, Barbados)
Genre Hard rock
Length42:14
Label Atlantic Records
Producer Mick Jones
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Mick Jones is Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones' self-titled debut/studio album, released in 1989 and his only solo release to date.

Contents

Released on Atlantic Records, this album included Billy Joel and Carly Simon as guest singers. Joel sang with Jones on the song "Just Wanna Hold" and Simon sang with Jones on the songs "That's the Way My Love Is" and "Write Tonight". It is widely believed that the co-composer "M. Phillips" on the track "Just Wanna Hold" is a pseudonym of Mick Jagger.

Track listing

All songs written by Mick Jones, except where noted.

Side one

  1. "Just Wanna Hold" (Jones, Ian Hunter, M. Phillips) 3:30
  2. "Save Me Tonight" (Jones, Diane Warren, Joe Brooks) 3:50
  3. "That's the Way My Love Is" 3:25
  4. "The Wrong Side of the Law" 5:14
  5. "4 Wheels Turnin'" 4:35

Side two

  1. "Everything That Comes Around" (Jones, Joe Brooks) 4:41
  2. "You Are My Friend" 5:39
  3. "Danielle" (Jones, Joe Brooks) 4:34
  4. "Write Tonight" 4:25
  5. "Johnny (Part 1)" 1:43

Personnel

Production

Studios

Notes

  1. "New Albums" (PDF). Music Week . 5 August 1989. p. 26. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
  2. https://www.allmusic.com/album/r10574



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