Waking Up (Topper Headon album)

Waking Up is a solo album by Topper Headon best known as the drummer of The Clash. The album was released by Mercury in 1986 with a cover photograph taken by Tim White. "Leave It to Luck" was released as a single and as part of an EP.[2] The album was dedicated to the memory of Pete Farndon.

Waking Up
Studio album by
Topper Headon
Released1986 (1986)
RecordedJuly–August 1986
StudioWessex Studios, London
GenreSoul, jazz, R&B
Length38:24
LabelMercury
ProducerJeremy Green, Topper Headon
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Track listing

All tracks composed and arranged by Topper Headon, except where indicated.

  1. "Leave It to Luck"
  2. "I'll Give You Everything"
  3. "Hope for Donna"
  4. "Got to Keep on Going"
  5. "Dancing"
  6. "Pleasure and Pain"
  7. "When You're Down"
  8. "Time Is Tight" (Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Al Jackson)
  9. "Just Another Hit"
  10. "Monkey on My Back"

Personnel
  • Topper Headon - drums, percussion
  • Martin Dobson - saxophone
  • Mick Gallagher - keyboards
  • Mark Graham - trombone
  • Tom Harris - saxophone
  • Jimmy Helms - vocals
  • Jerome Rimson - bass, vocals
  • Bob Tench - guitar, vocals
  • Geoffrey Miller - trumpet, flugelhorn

Notes
  1. Allmusic review
  2. This EP included "East Versus West", "Got to Get Out of This Heat" and "Ducaine Road"
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