Moonlight Shadows

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Moonlight Shadows
Moonlight Shadows (The Shadows album cover).jpg
Studio album by
The Shadows
Released16 May 1986 (1986-05-16) [1]
RecordedMay and June 1981, May and June 1983 and February and March 1986
Genre Instrumental rock
Label Polydor
Producer The Shadows, Bruce Welch
The Shadows chronology
Guardian Angel
(1984)		Moonlight Shadows
(1986)		Simply...Shadows
(1987)

Moonlight Shadows is the seventeenth album by British instrumental group The Shadows, released in 1986 through Polydor Records. The album reached number 6 in a 16-week run on the UK Album Charts. [2]

Contents

This album consists entirely of cover songs by The Police, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Rush, The Beatles, Phil Collins, Elaine Paige, Bruce Springsteen, Procol Harum, Mike Oldfield, The Commodores, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder, Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson, The Moody Blues, John Lennon & Dire Straits. [3] [4] Several tracks were lifted from previously released albums.

The only single released from the album was "Moonlight Shadow", which did not chart.

The album was recorded and mixed by Dick Plant at Honeyhill and Nivram Studios, Hertfordshire.

Release

Moonlight Shadows was released on LP and CD simultaneously as the group's third CD release.

Track listing

  1. "Every Breath You Take" (Sting)
  2. "Hello" (Lionel Richie)
  3. "The Power of Love" (Candy De Rouge, Jennifer Rush, Gunther Mende, Mary Susan Applegate)
  4. "Hey Jude" (Lennon/McCartney)
  5. "Against All Odds" (from Against All Odds ) (Phil Collins)
  6. "Memory" (from Cats ) (Andrew Lloyd-Webber, T. S. Eliot, Trevor Nunn)
  7. "Dancing in the Dark" (Bruce Springsteen)
  8. "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (Keith Reid, Gary Brooker)
  9. "Moonlight Shadow" (Mike Oldfield)
  10. "Three Times a Lady" (Richie)
  11. "Sailing" (Gavin Sutherland)
  12. "I Just Called to Say I Love You" (from The Woman in Red ) (Stevie Wonder)
  13. "I Know Him So Well" (from Chess ) (Benny Andersson, Bjorn Ulvaeus, Tim Rice)
  14. "Nights in White Satin" (Justin Hayward)
  15. "Imagine"/"Woman" (John Lennon)
  16. "Walk of Life" (Mark Knopfler)

Personnel

With

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
New Zealand (RMNZ) [5] Gold7,500^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

  1. ↑ "Polydor promo for Shads LP" (PDF). Music Week . 10 May 1986. p. 3. Retrieved 8 December 2022.
  2. ↑ "The Shadows – UK Chart History". www.officialcharts.com. Official UK Chart Company.
  3. ↑ Moonlight Shadows at AllMusic
  4. ↑ The Shadows (1986). Moonlight Shadows (LP). UK: Polydor.
  5. ↑ "New Zealand album certifications – The Shadows – Moonlight Shadows". Recorded Music NZ . Retrieved 20 November 2024.
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