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pop rock group

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. The LP, issued in the UK in late 1975, saw a marked change in the group's musical direction: all the songs save one were the band's own compositions. The one outside-written tune, " Give a Little Love", was a smash UK hit, and the only single released from the album. The album also included, in the form of a giant letter, a free colour picture book of the individual members, with a band picture on the front. Seven of the tracks from the album would appear on

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' 1976 US-only album, '' Rock N'Roll Love Letter'' using the same cover photo and artwork.

Track listing

UK LP release, Bell Records #8002

Track listing per Discogs

2004 UK CD reissue

A 2004 CD reissue on

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included four

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: " Saturday Night", which had appeared on Japanese pressings of the original LP; "She'll Be Crying Over You" (originally the

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of the UK "Give a Little Love" single); and two previously unissued tracks featuring early Roller Nobby Clark on lead vocal: "Wouldn't You Like It? (1972 version)" (an entirely different song from 1975's "Wouldn't You Like It?") and "I'd Do It Again".

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Personnel

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– lead and backing vocals * Stuart "Woody" Wood – guitars, backing vocals; co-lead vocals on "Shangai'd In Love" * Eric Faulkner – guitars, backing vocals; co-lead vocals on "Shangai'd In Love" * Alan Longmuir – bass, backing vocals; lead vocals on "Here Comes That Feeling Again" * Derek Longmuir – drums, backing vocals, percussion; spoken word on "Derek's End Piece"

ProductionAlbum notes

Recorded at:- *

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– Engineered by Dave Grinstead * Eden Studios, Chiswick – Engineered by Mike Gardener *Audio International Studios – Engineered by James Guthrie *Mastered at

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, London by Melvin Abrams *Musical Director –

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*Produced by

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*Sleeve design: The Green Bay Packers Art Company *Cover Photography: John Paul *Insert Photography: Alan Ballard *Art Director: John Dyer

References

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