Snakes and Ladders (Gerry Rafferty album)
1980 studio album by Gerry Rafferty / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Snakes and Ladders is the fourth album by Gerry Rafferty. It was released in 1980, following the success of his previous two albums, City to City and Night Owl. The album charted at No. 15 in the UK but only reached No. 61 in the US, while singles achieved #54UK ("Bring It All Home"), and #67UK / #54US ("The Royal Mile"). The album was released on CD in 1998 [EMI 7 46609-2] but deleted soon after that, and it got reissued on CD in August 2012 as a 2-CD set with "Sleepwalking."
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Snakes and Ladders | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | April 1980 | |||
Studio | Chipping Norton Recording Studios (Oxon, England); AIR Studios (Montserrat). | |||
Genre | Rock | |||
Length | 48:44 | |||
Label | United Artists | |||
Producer | Gerry Rafferty, Hugh Murphy | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [1] |
Smash Hits | 8½/10[2] |
Some of the songs are available on compilation albums. Four of the songs, "The Garden of England", "I Was a Boy Scout", "Welcome to Hollywood" and "Bring It All Home" were recorded at Beatles producer George Martin's AIR studio in Montserrat. All the songs were original Rafferty compositions, though one – "Johnny's Song" – was a remake of a song which had been previously released by his former band Stealers Wheel, and another – "Didn't I" – was a remake of a song from Rafferty's 1971 album Can I Have My Money Back?.