Eric Martin

Having broken up the Eric Martin Band to go solo, Eric Martin made this album under his own name for Capitol Records. FMQB of 2 August 1985 reported it as due from Capitol that month, produced by Danny Kortchmar and Greg Ladanyi, with players including Waddy Wachtel, Little Feat's Bill Payne, Stan Lynch of Tom Petty's band and Paul Shaffer. It was recorded and mixed at Record One in Los Angeles. Randy Jackson plays bass on nine of the ten songs and Kortchmar plays guitar on all of them, with Steve Lukather, Michael Boddicker and Ernie Watts among the other players, and Martin's manager, Herbie Herbert, sings backing vocals on "She's Out for Blood". Martin is a writer on six of the songs, five of them with Tony Fanucchi, and Journey's Neal Schon shares the credit on "Eyes of the World" and "Just One Night". Martin has said that he wrote "Just One Night" with Schon and made its demo with Kevin Elson; Triumph later recorded the song. The other four come from outside writers, among them Michael Bolton's "Can't Hold On, Can't Let Go" and Steve Van Zandt's "Lyin' in a Bed of Fire". The first single, "Information", entered the Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated 24 August 1985 and peaked at number 87. Capitol released the album in the United States on LP (ST-12424) and cassette (4XT-12424), and the same year brought a Japanese LP (ECS-81736) and a British LP on Music For Nations (MFN 57). The second song, "Pictures", also opens Looks Can Be Deceiving, the shelved Eric Martin Band album released in 2026, and according to that album's notes it is the only one of its songs that Martin re-recorded for this record. Six of the songs were later chosen for the 1996 Japanese compilation Soul Sessions: The Capitol Years.