A Walk Across the Rooftops
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A Walk Across the Rooftops is the debut album from Glaswegian AC/pop group The Blue Nile, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music).
The album had quite an unusual history. Three years prior, The Blue Nile recorded and independently released their first single, "I Love This Life." It caught the attention of RSO Records, who re-released it, but the company was absorbed into Polygram soon afterward, so the single disappeared from view, as did the band.
The Blue Nile continued recording, and one of their songs, "Tinseltown in the Rain," was heard by a representative of Linn Hi-Fi, Charlie Brennan, who was looking for a demo track to demonstrate the fidelity of his company's state-of-the-art audio equipment. The band was commissioned to record such a track, and once Linn heard "A Walk Across the Rooftops," the company was so impressed, they financed an entire album and created a new record label, Linn Records, to release it.
Track listing
All songs written by Robert Bell and Paul Buchanan
- "A Walk Across the Rooftops" – 4:56
- "Tinseltown in the Rain" – 5:57
- "From Rags to Riches" – 5:59
- "Stay" – 4:57
- "Easter Parade " – 4:34
- "Heatwave" – 6:28
- "Automobile Noise" – 5:08
Personnel
The Blue Nile
- Robert Bell – Bass, Synthesizer
- Paul Buchanan – Vocals, Guitar, Synthesizer
- Paul Joseph Moore – Keyboards, Synthesizer
Additional musicians
- Nigel Thomas – Drums
Production
- Producer(s):
Cover Art
The photograph on the front cover was taken on Cathcart Road in Glasgow. The building on the right was the Hermon Baptist Church; it was a single-storey pent-roofed structure built on to the end of a block of tenement houses[1]. At some point the tenements were demolished and the church stood in isolation for some years until it was destroyed by fire in 2001, and subsequently demolished.