''Professionally Damaged'' is a six-song EP by the

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. It was released in 1983 by Lo-Tech Records. The EP features ''Hunger Strikes'', number one local song of 1983 on Boston radio station WBCN.Rick Berlin
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Track listing

All songs by

Rick Berlin Rick Berlin (born ''Richard Gustave Kinscherf III''; 1945 in Sioux City, Iowa) is a Boston-based singer-songwriter, formerly the frontman of Orchestra Luna, Luna, Berlin Airlift, Rick Berlin: The Movie, and The Shelley Winters Project. Life a ...

. #"Stop and Think About It" – 2:02 #"I Don't Know How to Be Cool" – 4:13 #"Hunger Strikes" – 7:11 #"Do it Tonight" – 3:21 #"Not Guilty" – 4:21 #"Smoke Is Risin'" – 5:21

Credits

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* Steven Paul Perry -

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, vocals *Jane Balmond - Keyboards *Chet Cahill -

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, Vocals *Glen Moran -

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References

1983 EPs Berlin Airlift (band) albums