All Right Now | ||||
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Released | 26 October 1987 [1] | |||
Recorded | July 1985 – May 1986 | |||
Genre | Dance-pop | |||
Label | Polydor | |||
Producer | Tambi Fernando (tracks 1, 3, 4, 6, 7), Phil Fearon (track 1), Chris Porter (tracks 5 and 8), Gary Langham (track 2), Pete Hammond (track 6), Chris Cameron (tracks 5 and 8), Pepsi DeMacque (tracks 5 and 8), Shirlie Holliman (tracks 5 and 8) | |||
Pepsi & Shirlie chronology | ||||
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All Right Now is the 1987 debut album by vocalists Pepsi & Shirlie. The album gave two top 10 hits in the UK for the duo: "Heartache" (#2) and "Goodbye Stranger" (#9). [2] The other three singles fared less well, hitting below the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart (although "Can't Give Me Love" attained more respectable peaks of #21 in Ireland [3] and #23 in the Flanders region of Belgium [4] ). Pepsi & Shirlie produced two of the tracks themselves: "What's Going On Inside Your Head?" and "Crime of Passion".
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Source | Rating |
Number One | [5] |
Smash Hits | 6/10 [6] |
After being expanded and remastered, the album was reissued by Cherry Pop in April 2011, with the following tracks:
Chart (1987) | Peak position |
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Australia (Kent Music Report) [7] | 99 |
United Kingdom (Official Charts) [2] | 69 |
United States (Billboard 200) | 133 |
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