Burning in the Shade

The last studio album of the band's first run, issued by Zebra Records in 1987 as ZEB 10. As with The Wreck-Age before it, founder Robb Weir does not play on this record. Jon Deverill sings, and he calls it his last involvement with the band: he wrote it with Steve Thompson, rates Steve Lamb's guitar work alongside John Sykes's and Fred Purser's, and says he is proud of it. After a final European run in the autumn of 1987, Brian Dick — who had played on six studio albums — left. Deverill left music altogether, trained for three years at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and became an actor. The band would not move again until Wacken in 1999.