''Don't Go Looking Back'' is the debut album by

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Innocent Bystanders Innocent Bystanders were a Perth based band formed in 1983 featuring vocalist/songwriter Brett Keyser and guitarist Diesel (Mark Lizotte). Biography At a time when cover bands dominated the Western Australian music landscape, "Bystanders" were ...

, originally released in 1986. The album reached #59 on the Australian album charts in September 1986. Note: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until

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created their own

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in mid-1988.

Track listing

All songs written by Brett Keyser. Australasian Performing Right Association
# "Just My Mothers Son" # "Lookin' Down At You" # "Let Me In" # "I Don't Care" # "Dangerous" # "Hard To Know" # "Those Days" # "Late Night Criers" # "Don't Go Lookin' Back"

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Personnel

Innocent Bystanders

*Brett Keyser –

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*John Dalzel –

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*Al Kash –

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* Don Walker –

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, C-3, DX-7

Additional musicians

*Paul Ewing –

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, on "Just My Mother's Son",

, C-3 on "Those Days" *Peter Walker – Acoustic &

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Credits

*Produced by Peter Walker *Recorded by Graham Owens & Peter Walker *Mixed by Steve Bywaters & Peter Walker *Executive Producers John Hopkins & Brett Townsend *Directed by Brett Townsend *Second Engineer Mark Whitehouse

References

1986 debut albums Innocent Bystanders albums {{1980s-alt-rock-album-stub