Green Light (Cliff Richard album)

Green Light
Studio album by Cliff Richard
Released	29 September 1978
Recorded	July 1977, January - April 1978
Genre	Pop, rock
Label	EMI, RCA
Producer	Bruce Welch
Cliff Richard chronology
Small Corners (1978)Small Corners 1978 Green Light (1978) Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile (1979)Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile 1979

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Green Light is a 1978 album by Cliff Richard. It was his 31st studio album.

Background

Cliff Richard had seen a dip in popularity in the early 1970s until his 1976 album I'm Nearly Famous gave him major success. This comeback kept Richard regularly in the charts until the mid-1980s. Of the albums released during this period, Green Light was the only one which failed to make the top 10. It proved to be a particular disappointment in only reaching No.25 in the album charts and failed to provide any high charting singles. The lead single, "Please Remember Me" failed to chart at all, as did the follow-up, "Can't Take the Hurt Anymore". This left Richard without a hit single in 1978, only the second year since 1958 that this had happened. A third and final release, the title track "Green Light" finally gave him a chart entry in early 1979, but only managed to creep up to No.57.

Despite this, the album was well received by critics. Allmusic stating that this was "Richard at his most commercial and appealing and deserved to be more widely heard - particularly in the US". Probably the most well-known song on the album however was "Count Me Out", which was later released as the B-side to Richard's 1979 single "We Don't Talk Anymore", which was the song that got his revival back on track by becoming the biggest selling single of his career.

Since his 1977 Every Face Tells a Story album, Richard had released two other albums - a Christian music album, Small Corners and a compilation album 40 Golden Greats, which had reached No.1 in November 1977. Soon after this, he also released a live album, Thank You Very Much, which celebrated 20 years of Cliff Richard in the music business.

Green Light was remastered and re-issued on Compact disc in July 2002.

Track listing

Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Green Light"   Alan Tarney 4:05 2. "Under Lock and Key"   Terry Britten 3:34 3. "She's a Gipsy"   Boudleaux Bryant, Dempsey 4:14 4. "Count Me Out"   Terry Britten, Bruce Welch 4:15 5. "Please Remember Me"   Dave Loggins, Bruce Woodley 3:20 6. "Never Even Thought"   Murray Head 4:16

Side two No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Free My Soul"   Terry Britten 3:56 2. "Start All Over Again"   Terry Britten, B.A. Robertson 4:02 3. "While She's Young"   Terry Britten 2:50 4. "Can't Take the Hurt Anymore"   Laurie Andrew 3:52 5. "Ease Along"   Trevor Spencer, Alan Tarney 4:29

Bonus tracks (2002 re-issue) No. Title Writer(s) Length 12. "Please Don't Tease"   Peter Chester, Bruce Welch 4:47 13. "Needing a Friend"   Cliff Richard, Gary Isherwood 2:57 14. "Imagine Love"   Jerry Lordan, Alan Tarney 4:20

Personnel

• Cliff Richard - vocals
• Alan Tarney - guitar, bass, keyboards, backing vocals
• Alan Parker, Terry Britten, Tim Renwick - guitar
• Alan Jones - bass
• Duncan Mackay, Graham Todd - keyboards
• Brian Bennett, Trevor Spencer - drums
• John Perry, Stuart Calver, Tony Rivers - backing vocals
• Richard Hewson - string arrangement
• Gered Mankowitz - photography

Chart history

Release date	Single title																																																																UK Chart peak
28 July 1978	"Please Remember Me"																																																																-
3 November 1978	"Can't Take the Hurt Anymore"																																																																-
16 February 1979	"Green Light"																																																																57
Release date	Album title																																																																UK Chart peak
29 September 1978	Green Light																																																																25