Moonlight Shadows
Moonlight Shadows is the seventeenth rock album by British instrumental group The Shadows, released in 1986 through Polydor Records. The tracks are covers of songs by The Police, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Rush, The Beatles, Phil Collins, Elaine Paige, Bruce Springsteen, Procol Harum, Mike Oldfield, The Commodores, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder, Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson, The Moody Blues, John Lennon & Dire Straits. The disc was recorded and mixed by Dick Plant at Honeyhill and Nivram Studios, Hertfordshire.
Release
Moonlight Shadows was released on LP and CD simultaneously as the group's third CD release. This top ten album consisted entirely of cover songs. Moonlight Shadows spent 16 weeks in the British Album chart peaking at number 6. "Moonlight Shadow" was the only single release.
Several tracks were lifted from previously released albums.
Tracks
- Every Breath You Take (Sting)
- Hello (Richie)
- The Power Of Love (De Rouge/Rush/Mende/Applegate)
- Hey Jude (Lennon/McCartney)
- Against All Odds (from Against All Odds) (Collins)
- *Memory (from Cats) (Lloyd-Webber/T.S.Eliot/Nunn)
- Dancing in the Dark (Springsteen)
- *A Whiter Shade of Pale (Reid/Booker)
- Moonlight Shadow (Oldfield)
- Three Times a Lady (Richie)
- *Sailing (Sutherland)
- I Just Called to Say I Love You (from The Woman in Red) (Wonder)
- I Know Him So Well (from Chess) (B.Andersson/B.Ulvaeus/T.Rice)
- Nights in White Satin (Hayward)
- *Imagine/Woman (Lennon)
- Walk Of Life (Knopfler)
Personnel
- Hank Marvin—Lead Guitar
- Bruce Welch—Rhythm Guitar
- Brian Bennett—Drums & Percussion
- Cliff Hall—Keyboards
With
- Paul Westwood—Bass Guitar
- Alan Jones—Bass Guitar