Breaking All the Rules (Peter Frampton album)

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Breaking All the Rules
Studio album by
Peter Frampton
Released14 May 1981
RecordedNovember 1979 – June 1980
StudioThe Charlie Chaplin Sound Stage at A&M Studios (Los Angeles)
GenreRock
Length42:19
LabelA&M
ProducerDavid Kershenbaum and Peter Frampton
Peter Frampton chronology
Where I Should Be
(1979) 		Breaking All the Rules
(1981) 		The Art of Control
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

Breaking All the Rules is the seventh studio album by English musician Peter Frampton, released on 14 May 1981 by A&M Records.

Background

Breaking All the Rules featured a raw live in the studio approach like its 1980 predecessor Rise Up, which was a Brazilian LP release to promote Peter Frampton's concert tour in Brazil in 1980. Rise Up in fact served as a proto-version of Breaking All the Rules, as the latter album features re-recordings of nearly all tracks on Rise Up, including its title track, which features an almost entirely different lineup of musicians; only Frampton and bassist John Regan appeared on both versions of "Rise Up". Curiously, the Brazilian version of Breaking All the Rules, while lacking the re-recorded versions save for the title track, features three songs not included anywhere else (a cover of "Somebody's Been Sleeping" and two originals, "Night Town" and the instrumental "Los Anõs Locos") and totally different sequencing.

The album had won airplay for its anthemic title track, which was co-written with Procol Harum lyricist Keith Reid. The album's cover was photographed at 350 W 23rd Street, Chelsea, New York City.[4] The album features Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro of Toto.

Track listing

All tracks written by Peter Frampton except where indicated.

  1. "Dig What I Say" – 4:13
  2. "I Don't Wanna Let You Go" – 4:22
  3. "Rise Up" (Alessi Brothers) – 3:46
  4. "Wasting the Night Away" – 4:13
  5. "Going to L.A." – 6:05
  6. "You Kill Me" – 4:18
  7. "Friday on My Mind" (George Young, Harry Vanda) – 4:18
  8. "Lost a Part of You" – 3:43
  9. "Breaking All the Rules" (Frampton, Keith Reid) – 7:17

Charts

Chart (1981) Peak
position
Australian Kent Music Report Albums Chart[5] 89

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Breaking All the Rules Review by Joe Viglione". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
  2. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). "Frampton, Peter". The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th concise ed.). London: Omnibus Press. p. 1,832. ISBN 978-0-85712-595-8.
  3. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. p. 261.
  4. ^ "Musical Maps".
  5. ^ Kent, David (1993). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992 (illustrated ed.). St Ives, N.S.W.: Australian Chart Book. p. 117. ISBN 0-646-11917-6.


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