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)

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.