The Wild Ones (album)

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The Wild Ones
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Studio album by
Released1982
RecordedNovember 1981 - February 1982
StudioParkgate Studios (East Sussex). Redan Recorders (London)
Genre Hard rockOi
Label A.K.A.
Producer Pete Way
Cockney Rejects chronology
The Power and the Glory
(1981)
The Wild Ones
(1982)
Quiet Storm
(1984)

The Wild Ones is the fourth album by the band Cockney Rejects released in 1982. [1]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Way of the Rocker"
  2. "City of the Lights"
  3. "Rock N' Roll Dream"
  4. "Till the End of the Day"
  5. "Some Play Dirty"
  6. "Satellite City"
  7. "Let Me Rock You"
  8. "Victim of the Cheap Wine"
  9. "Hells a Long Way to Go"
  10. "Heat of the Night"

All song written by Cockney Rejects except Till the End of the Day, written by Ray Davies

Personnel

Gary Edwards - Engineer Johnny Schinas - Assistant Engineer Ross Halfin- Phorography Crunch - Design

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