Sneak Me In

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Sneak Me In
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Studio album by Lucifer's Friend
Released 1980
Recorded 1979-1980
Studio Mashville Studios, Maschen
Genre Hard rock
Length36:30
Label Elektra (in the US)
Vertigo Records (in Europe)
Producer Lucifer's Friend
Lucifer's Friend chronology
Rock Heavies: Lucifer's Friend
(1980) Rock Heavies: Lucifer's Friend1980
Sneak Me In
(1980)
Mean Machine
(1981) Mean Machine1981

Sneak Me In is the seventh album by Lucifer's Friend, an album in which Mike Starrs, formerly of Colosseum II, replaced John Lawton on vocals for a second time. This album and the previous Good Time Warrior (1978) were an attempt at a more commercial, accessible style which met with limited success. Starrs was replaced by the returning Lawton, for 1981's Mean Machine .

Lucifer's Friend is a German hard rock band, formed in Hamburg in 1970 by guitarist Peter Hesslein, singer John Lawton, bassist Dieter Horns, keyboardist Peter Hecht, and drummer Joachim Reitenbach. The group was an early practitioner of heavy metal and progressive rock; they also incorporated elements of jazz and fusion into their music, especially in their fourth album Banquet of 1974. Beyond heavy metal, the band has been cited, too, as one of the pioneers of doom metal, helping to define both genres due to their heavy sound and dark oriented lyrics of their acclaimed debut Lucifer's Friend of 1970, and returning to their roots in 1981 with Mean Machine, although more influenced by speed metal.

Mike Starrs is a vocalist of Scottish origin. He left Scotland for London in the late 1960s and worked in various minor bands. Starrs was signed by the record producer Tony Atkins for Marquee Productions and released several unsuccessful singles. He joined Colosseum II in 1975 after being spotted singing in a local pub and featured on their first album, Strange New Flesh in 1976. Starrs' powerful and distinctive singing style, complimented the guitar work of Gary Moore, the keyboards of Don Airey and the rhythm section of Neil Murray and Jon Hiseman and the end result was a potential British supergroup in the making.

Colosseum II was a British progressive jazz-rock band formed in 1975 by former Colosseum drummer and bandleader Jon Hiseman, which featured guitarist Gary Moore.

Contents

Track listing

Side One
No.TitleLength
1."Goodbye Girls"4:05
2."Sneak Me In"3:11
3."Foxy Lady"4:30
4."Love Hymn"5:16
Side Two
No.TitleLength
5."Stardancer"5:14
6."Indian Summer"5:16
7."Don't You Know what I Like"3:58
8."Cosmic Crusader"4:55

Personnel

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