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Crusader
- Edition
- Original release
- Release date
- 30 January 1984
- Label
- Carrere
- Format
- 12-inch LP and CD
- Bonus
- The original release has no bonus track; the 2009 remaster runs to nineteen.
LINER NOTES
LANGUAGE
The sixth album came out on 30 January 1984 and reached eighteen in Britain, fifteen in Sweden, sixteen in the Netherlands, twenty in Germany, twenty-six in Switzerland and 174 on the US Billboard 200.
It was recorded in 1983 at Sound City Studios in Van Nuys, California, and produced by Kevin Beamish. The line-up is Byford, Oliver, Quinn, Dawson and Glockler.
Byford has said the title came not from the crusades but from the masthead of the Daily Express and a model of Ford Cortina. "Set Me Free" is a Sweet song, written by Andy Scott. AllMusic reads the record as a move away from the new wave of British heavy metal toward a kinder, gentler metal.
The running order given here is the original pressing's.
TRACK LIST
- 1.The Crusader Prelude
- 2.Crusader
- 3.A Little Bit of What You Fancy
- 4.Sailing to America
- 5.Set Me Free
- 6.Just Let Me Rock
- 7.Bad Boys (Like to Rock 'n' Roll)
- 8.Do It All for You
- 9.Rock City
- 10.Run for Your Lives