Wide Awake in Dreamland

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Wide Awake in Dreamland
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Cover photography by Moshe Brakha
Studio album by
Pat Benatar
ReleasedJuly 4, 1988 [1]
Recorded1987
StudioSpyder's Soul Kitchen,
Ocean Way Recording ("All Fired Up"), Los Angeles, California
Genre Rock, hard rock, glam metal
Length50:12
Label Chrysalis
Producer
Pat Benatar chronology
Best Shots
(1987)		Wide Awake in Dreamland
(1988)		 True Love
(1991)
Singles from Wide Awake in Dreamland
  1. "All Fired Up"
    Released: June 14, 1988
  2. "Don't Walk Away"
    Released: September 27, 1988
  3. "Let's Stay Together"
    Released: December 19, 1988
  4. "One Love"
    Released: January 9, 1989 (EU)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Rolling Stone Star full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [3]

Wide Awake in Dreamland is the seventh studio album by American rock singer Pat Benatar, and her eighth album overall, released in 1988. After a string of successful albums, this was her last rock-oriented album of the 1980s, before she would go on to try a blues-based sound with True Love in 1991.

Contents

The album's lead single, "All Fired Up", peaked at number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 [4] and number 25 on the Cash Box Top 100. [5] It was nominated for a Grammy Award but did not win. [6]

The album was certified Gold by the RIAA. [7]

Background and writing

The album was primarily recorded at Neil Giraldo's studio, with most of the songwriting by Giraldo and longtime drummer Myron Grombacher. Four of the tracks are also co-written with Benatar (who is credited as Pat Giraldo). One of the two songs from other songwriters was "Cerebral Man" written by Tully Winfield and well-known stick player Don Schiff. In an interview from 2002, Schiff recalled how this track was added to the album: "Tully Winfield and I demoed songs at what was becoming a very popular studio in LA (Woodcliff Studio)... we had just recorded "Cerebral Man". If I recall correctly the demo just had Tully's voice, stick and drums. Peter Coleman was producing Pat's next album for Chrysalis and happened to be the next session in and heard the tune. He asked if he could take the song to Pat Benatar and hopefully put it on her next album. Her camp liked it and they did a wonderful job with the song. I thought Tully and I would get a few more songs on that album as they liked the style of our song, but at the last minute she decided to go back to her more familiar rock style, leaving our song the only one stylistically like it on the album." [8]

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."All Fired Up" Kerryn Tolhurst 4:27
2."One Love" Neil Giraldo, Myron Grombacher5:12
3."Let's Stay Together" Pat Benatar, Giraldo4:50
4."Don't Walk Away" Nick Gilder, Duane Hitchings4:35
5."Too Long a Soldier"Giraldo, Grombacher6:42
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."Cool Zero"Giraldo, Grombacher5:26
7."Cerebral Man" Don Schiff, Tully Winfield4:40
8."Lift 'em on Up"Benatar, Giraldo, Grombacher4:54
9."Suffer the Little Children"Benatar, Giraldo4:10
10."Wide Awake in Dreamland"Giraldo, Grombacher4:58

Personnel

Musicians

Production

"All Fired Up"
"Let's Stay Together"

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Wide Awake In Dreamland
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada) [20] Platinum100,000^
United Kingdom (BPI) [21] Gold100,000^
United States (RIAA) [22] Gold500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

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