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Alphaville: The Breathtaking Blue

On April 4, 1989, “Warner Music” label released “The Breathtaking Blue”, the third Alphaville studio album. It was recorded 1987 – 1988, at “Lunapark Studios” in Berlin, Germany, and was produced by Klaus Schulze, Marian Gold, Frank Martens, Bernhard Lloyd and Ricky Echolette. 

Personnel:

  • Marian Gold – vocal
  • Frank Martens – vocal
  • Bernhard Lloyd – vocal, keyboards, guitar
  • Ricky Echolette – keyboards, guitar
  • Blacky Schwarz Ruszczynski, Micael Ryan, Eff Jott Krueger, Manuel Goettsching – guitar
  • Kenneth Ward – crescendo guitar
  • Ernst Deuker – double bass
  • Hansi Behrendt – drums, percussion
  • Thomas Keller, Friedemann Graef – saxophones
  • Michael Junker – trumpet
  • Julie Ocean – vocoder
  • Miriam Stockley, Mae McKenna, Patti Calore, The Lunapark Office Choir, Gabi Becker – backing vocals
  • Rainer Bloss – string and brass arrangements 
  • Klaus Schulze – string arrangements

Track listing:

All tracks by Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd and Ricky Echolette except where noted.

  • Summer Rain
  • Romeos
  • She Fade Away
  • The Mysteries of Love
  • Ariana
  • Heaven or Hell
  • For a Million – lyrics by Marian Gold, Janey Diamond, Bernhard Lloyd, Ricky Echolette
  • Middle of the Riddle
  • Patricia’s Park
  • Anyway

Whitesnake: Good To Be Bad

On April 21, 2008, “SPV/Steamhammer” label released “Good to Be Bad” the tenth Whitesnake studio album. It was recorded in 2007, at “Casa DALA” and “Clear Lake Audio” in Los Angeles, “Snakebyte Studios” in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, and was produced by David Coverdale and Doug Aldric. The “Dinosaur Rock Guitar” forum  honored “Good to Be Bad” at 2008 “Dino Award” for “Best Album of the Year”.

Personnel:

  • David Coverdale – vocals, recording, mixing
  • Doug Aldrich – guitars, recording, mixing
  • Reb Beach – guitars
  • Timothy Drury – keyboards
  • Uriah Duffy – bass
  • Chris Frazier – drums
  • David Donnelly – mastering

Track listing:

All tracks by David Coverdale and Doug Aldrich.

  1. Best Years
  2. Can You Hear the Wind Blow
  3. Call on Me
  4. All I Want All I Need
  5. Good to Be Bad
  6. All for Love
  7. Summer Rain
  8. Lay Down Your Love
  9. A Fool in Love
  10. Got What You Need
  11. Til the End of Time