The Cage (Tygers of Pan Tang album)
The Cage is a 1982 album by British heavy metal band Tygers of Pan Tang, released on MCA Records. It marked a move in a more commercial direction, selling over 200,000 copies and giving birth to two top 50 songs in the UK, namely the covers of Leiber & Stoller's "Love Potion No. 9" and the lesser known RPM song "Rendezvous". Another single charted at 63: the Steve Thompson song "Paris by Air".[1] It is shortly after producing this album that the band split for the first time, due to tensions with their record company. Robb Weir and Brian Dick then formed the band Sergeant.
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [2] |
| Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal | 9/10[3] |
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| Released | August 1982 | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal, hard rock | |||
| Length | 35:20 | |||
| Label | MCA | |||
| Producer | Peter Collins | |||
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Track listing
- Side one
- "Rendezvous" (Robert A. Johnson, Mark Stephens, Brent Maher) - 3:20 (RPM cover)
- "Lonely at the Top" (Steve Thompson) - 3:29
- "Letter from L.A." (Jon Deverill, Thompson) - 3:12
- "Paris by Air" (Thompson) - 2:56
- "Tides" (Fred Purser) - 4:13
- Side two
- "Making Tracks" (Richard Laws, Deverill, Purser) - 3:01
- "The Cage" (Robb Weir, Purser) - 0:32
- "Love Potion No.9" (Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller) - 3:17 (The Clovers cover)
- "You Always See What You Want" (Purser, Deverill) - 3:12
- "Danger in Paradise" (John Parr) - 3:29
- "The Actor" (Purser) - 4:15
- 1997 CD re-issue bonus tracks
- "Life of Crime" - 3:35
- "Love's a Lie" - 2:52
- "What You Sayin'" - 3:19
- "Making Tracks (extended remix)" - 6:23
Personnel
- Band members
- Jon Deverill - vocals
- Robb Weir - guitars
- Fred Purser - guitars, keyboards
- Richard "Rocky" Laws - bass guitar
- Brian Dick - drums
- Additional musicians
- John Sykes - guitar on "Love Potion No. 9" and "Danger in Paradise"
- Production
- Peter Collins - producer
- Phil Harding - engineer, mixing
References
- "The Official Music Charts". The Official Music Charts. Retrieved 23 February 2015.
- Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Tygers of Pan Tang The Cage review". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- Popoff, Martin (1 November 2005). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 371. ISBN 978-1894959315.
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