McVicar (album)

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McVicar (Original Soundtrack Recording)
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Studio album by
ReleasedJune 1980
Studio
Genre
Length36:36
Label Polydor
Producer Jeff Wayne
Roger Daltrey chronology
One of the Boys
(1977)
McVicar (Original Soundtrack Recording)
(1980)
Best Bits
(1981)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [1]
Smash Hits 5/10 [2]

McVicar is the soundtrack to the film McVicar and the fourth solo studio album by Roger Daltrey, the lead vocalist for the Who. The film, a biopic of the English bank robber John McVicar, was produced by Daltrey and also featured him in the starring role as John McVicar himself. All of the then-members of the Who played on the album.

Contents

The album was released in June 1980, on Polydor PD-1-6284 in the US. It was produced by Jeff Wayne and recorded at Advision Studios, London. Daltrey's vocals were recorded at Air Studios, Montserrat, West Indies. The album reached number 22 in the US and produced Daltrey's highest charting solo single to date, "Without Your Love". [3]

In 2001 Swedish HipHop group Infinite Mass used Daltrey's song "My Time Is Gonna Come" (as well as the bass line in the song) for their International hit "Bullet". The music video for "Bullet" composites clips from the film McVicar with new footage.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Bitter and Twisted" Steve Swindells 4:07
2."Just a Dream Away" Russ Ballard 4:17
3."Escape, Part One" Jeff Wayne 4:00
4."White City Lights" Billy Nicholls, Jon Lind 3:17
5."Free Me"Ballard3:59
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
6."My Time Is Gonna Come"Ballard3:17
7."Waiting for a Friend"Nicholls3:24
8."Escape, Part Two"Wayne4:00
9."Without Your Love"Nicholls3:18
10."McVicar"Nicholls2:50
Total length:36:36 [4]

Singles chart positions

Personnel

Technical

Charts

Chart (1980)Peak
position
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100) [6] 41
New Zealand Albums (RMNZ) [7] 44
UK Albums (OCC) [8] 39
US Billboard 200 [9] 22

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