Bodyswerve

Infobox Album
Name = Bodyswerve
Type = studio
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Artist = Jimmy Barnes


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Released = 10 September, 1984
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Genre = Hard rock
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Language = English
Label = Mushroom Records
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This album = "Bodyswerve"
(1984)
Next album = "For the Working Class Man"
(1985)
Misc = Singles
Name = Bodyswerve
Type = studio
single 1 = No Second Prize
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single 2 = Daylight
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"Bodyswerve" was the debut solo album by former Cold Chisel vocalist Jimmy Barnes. The album was released in on 10 September 1984 and went to No. 1 on the ARIA music chart. It contained covers of tracks by Sam Cooke and Janis Joplin. "No Second Prize" was the album's first single. The song was originally demoed by Cold Chisel, but never recorded by them. It was written in 1980 as a tribute to Chisel roadies Alan Dallow and Billy Rowe, who died in a truck crash. "Daylight" was also originally a Cold Chisel song. That band's version later appeared on the 1994 album "Teenage Love". A version of this song was also used in a TV commercial promoting milk. "Vision", "Daylight", "No Second Prize", "Promise Me You'll Call" and "Thick Skinned" were all remixed for inclusion on 1985's "For the Working Class Man". The album title is a football term for a feint.

Track listing

# "Vision" (Barnes)
# "Daylight" (Barnes)
# "Promise Me You'll Call" (Barnes)
# "No Second Prize" (Barnes)
# "Boys Cry Out For War" (Barnes)
# "Paradise" (Barnes)
# "A Change is Gonna Come" (Cooke)
# "Thick Skinned" (Barnes/Arnott)
# "Piece of My Heart" (Ragovoy/Berns)
# "Fire" (Eastick)
# "World's on Fire" (Barnes/Clapton/Eastick/Howe/Arnott/Stockley)

Recording personnel

*Lead vocals: Jimmy Barnes
*Guitars: Jimmy Barnes, Chas Sandford, Mal Eastick, Chris Stockley
*Bass: Bruce Howe
*Drums: Ray Arnott
*Keyboards: Steve Hill
*Backing vocals: Renée Geyer, Vanetta Fields, Shauna Jenson
*Mandolin: Chris Stockley
*Bagpipes: Viv Riley, Barry Riley

Chart positions

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before = "H'its Huge '84" by Various artists
title = Australian Kent Music Report number-one album
years = October 8 - October 21 1984
after = "Born in the U.S.A." by Bruce Springsteen