Moonlight Shadows

For the Mike Oldfield/Maggie Reilly song, see Moonlight Shadow.

Moonlight Shadows
Studio album by The Shadows
Released	May 1986 (1986-05)
Genre	Instrumental rock
Label	Polydor
Producer	The Shadows, Bruce Welch
The Shadows chronology
Guardian Angel (1984) Moonlight Shadows (1986) Simply...Shadows (1987)

Moonlight Shadows is the seventeenth album by British instrumental group The Shadows, released in 1986 through Polydor Records. The album reached number 6 in a 16-week run on the UK Album Charts.

This album consists entirely of cover songs by The Police, Lionel Richie, Jennifer Rush, The Beatles, Phil Collins, Elaine Paige, Bruce Springsteen, Procol Harum, Mike Oldfield, The Commodores, Rod Stewart, Stevie Wonder, Elaine Paige & Barbara Dickson, The Moody Blues, John Lennon & Dire Straits. Several tracks were lifted from previously released albums.

The only single released from the album was "Moonlight Shadow", which did not chart.

The album was recorded and mixed by Dick Plant at Honeyhill and Nivram Studios, Hertfordshire.

Release

Moonlight Shadows was released on LP and CD simultaneously as the group's third CD release.

Track listing

1. "Every Breath You Take" (Sting)
2. "Hello" (Richie)
3. "The Power of Love" (De Rouge, Rush, Mende, Applegate)
4. "Hey Jude" (Lennon/McCartney)
5. "Against All Odds" (from Against All Odds) (Collins)
6. "Memory" (from Cats) (Lloyd-Webber, T. S. Eliot, Nunn)
7. "Dancing in the Dark" (Springsteen)
8. "A Whiter Shade of Pale" (Reid, Booker)
9. "Moonlight Shadow" (Oldfield)
10. "Three Times a Lady" (Richie)
11. "Sailing" (Sutherland)
12. "I Just Called to Say I Love You" (from The Woman in Red) (Wonder)
13. "I Know Him So Well" (from Chess) (B. Andersson, B. Ulvaeus, T. Rice)
14. "Nights in White Satin" (Hayward)
15. "Imagine"/"Woman" (Lennon)
16. "Walk of Life" (Knopfler)

Personnel

• Hank Marvin—Lead Guitar
• Bruce Welch—Rhythm Guitar
• Brian Bennett—Drums, Percussion
• Cliff Hall—Keyboards

With

• Paul Westwood—Bass Guitar
• Alan Jones—Bass Guitar