Running Wild (album)

Running Wild
Studio album by Girlschool
Released	12 August 1985 [1]
Recorded	December 1984 – February 1985 [2]
Studio	Air Studios and Battery Studios, London, The Manor, Oxfordshire, England
Genre	Heavy metal
Length	37:48
Label	Mercury
Producer	Nick Tauber
Girlschool chronology
Play Dirty (1983) Running Wild (1985) Nightmare at Maple Cross (1986)

Professional ratings

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

Running Wild is the fifth studio album by the British heavy metal band Girlschool, released on Mercury Records in 1985.

It is the only studio work released as a five-piece group by Girlschool, after original lead guitarist Kelly Johnson had left the band. Vocals duties on the album are shared by Jackie Bodimead and Kim McAuliffe.

Running Wild was released only in America. It was produced by Nick Tauber, previously known for his work with Thin Lizzy, Marillion, and Toyah.

"Do You Love Me?" is a cover of the song from Kiss' album Destroyer (1976). ^[6]

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Let Me Go"	Kim McAuliffe, Jackie Bodimead, Cris Bonacci	3:48
2.	"Running Wild"	McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci	4:40
3.	"Do You Love Me?" ( KISS cover)	Paul Stanley, Kim Fowley, Bob Ezrin	3:19
4.	"Something for Nothing"	McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci, Denise Dufort, Gil Weston-Jones	3:18
5.	"Are You Ready?"	McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci, Dufort, Weston-Jones	3:37

Side two

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
6.	"Nowhere to Run"	McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci	3:43
7.	"I Want You Back"	McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci	4:33
8.	"Nasty Nasty"	McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci, Dufort, Weston-Jones	2:46
9.	"Love Is a Lie"	McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci, Dufort, Weston-Jones	3:09
10.	"Can't You See?"	McAuliffe, Bodimead, Bonacci, Dufort, Weston-Jones	4:55

Personnel

Band members

• Jackie Bodimead – lead and backing vocals, keyboards
• Kim McAulliffe – rhythm guitar, lead vocals on tracks 3, 8, backing vocals,
• Cris Bonacci – lead guitar
• Gil Weston-Jones – bass
• Denise Dufort – drums

Production

• Nick Tauber – producer
• Paul O'Duffy – engineer, mixing
• Neil Kernon – remixing of tracks 1, 2, 6

References

1. "New Releases" (PDF). FMQB . 2 August 1985. p. 32. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
2. Running Wild (LP liner notes). Mercury Records. 1985.
3. "Girlschool Running Wild". AllMusic. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
4. Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 133. ISBN   978-1894959315.
5. Johnson, Howard (3 October 1985). "Girlschool – Running Wild". Kerrang! . No. 104. p. 14.
6. "Girlschool – Running Wild". Encyclopaedia Metallum . Retrieved 14 March 2010.

External links

• Official Girlschool discography