Street Fighting Years


UK LP Cover

CD Picture Disk
Tracks
Street Fighting Years(6.24)
Soul Crying Out(6.07)
Wall Of Love(5.18)
This Is Your Land(6.21)
Take A Step Back(4.20)
Kick It In(6.09)
Let It All Come Down(4.53)
Mandela Day(5.42)
Belfast Child(6.40)
Biko(7.32)
When Spirits Rise(2.01)
Release Information
Country Date Vinyl Cassette CD
UK May 1989 Virgin MINDS 1 Virgin MINDSC 1 Virgin MINDSCD 1
Europe ? - - Virgin PMIND 1
Credits
Produced by Trevor Horn and Stephen Lipson

Charlie Burchill : Acoustic & Electric Guitars
Michael MacNeil : Piano, Accordian & Electric Keyboards
Jim Kerr : Vocals
Mel Gaynor : Drums
Manu Katche : Drums
John Gibling & Stephen Lipson : Bass Guitars
Lisa Germano : Violin

Special Thanks To :
Stewart Compeland : "The Rhythmatist"
Lou Reed for cameo vocal on This Is Your Land

Additional Musicians:
Sidnet Thiam, Abdul M'Boup & Leroy Williams : Percussion
William Lithgow & Sheena McKenzie : Cellos
Maureen Kerr : Pennywhistle & Bodhran
Roger Sharp : Bagpipes
John Altman : Orchestral Arragements
Lorna Bannon : Backing Vocals

Technical Master : Dougie Cowan
Engineers : Heff Moraes, Robin Hancock
Assistant Engineers: Dantom Supple, Martin Plant
Mastered by Bob Ludwig, Masterdisk
All digitally recorded and mixed analogue i.e. "dad"
Nourishment : Ying Ho Au Yeung
Logistics : Paul Kerr
Coordination : Jane Ventom
Talk & Encouragement : Willie Richardson, Simon Draper, Jon Webster, Steve Ralbovsky & Gil Friesen, Steve Lewis, Gary Wathen and to our many friends at Virgin and A&M Records (America)

All songs written by Simple Minds expect:
Let It All Come Down written by John Giblin and Simple Minds
Biko written by Peter Gabriel
Belfast Child traditional, lyrics written by Simple Minds
Street Fighting Years song written in memory of Victor Hara

Made In Scotland March '88 - March '89
Studio Drums provided by Tama
Photography by Guido Harari & NASA/Science Photo Library
Source of graphic : The Beauty Of Fractals by Peitgen Richter
Design by Assorted Images

Managed by Bruce Findlay, Robert White, Jimmy Devlin and Sandra Dods at Schoolhouse Mamagement
Additional Information
No limited editions were immediately produced for the album, but the album itself was nicely packaged in a gatefold sleeve. It wasn't until Christmas that a limited edition box set was produced of the album; and a year later, a European picture disk CD of the album appeared. The latter was especially odd, as the graphics were very poor and looked unfinished. For the completist collector only.

The promotional version of the album was interesting - the entire album was pressed up as a collection of 7" singles.