Credits

• Annie Lennox - vocals, keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
   (all tracks except "Would I Lie to You?" & "It’s Alright (Baby’s Coming Back)"), keyboard sequencers on "It’s Alright (Baby’s Coming Back)"
• David A. Stewart - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  s (all tracks except "There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart)", including electric & slide guitars on "Conditioned Soul" and 6-string octave guitar on "Adrian"), keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
   (all tracks except "Would I Lie to You?", "Adrian" & "It’s Alright (Baby’s Coming Back)"), sequencers on "Would I Lie to You?", bass sequencer & drum programming on "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain"

• Dean Garcia
  Curve (band)
  Curve was an English music group formed in 1990 chiefly around the collaboration of singer/songwriter Toni Halliday and bassist/guitarist/programmer Dean Garcia.-History:...
  
   - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   (all tracks except "Would I Lie to You?", "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain" & "Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves"), wood stomping on "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain"
• Olle Romo
  Olle Romo
  Olle Romo is a music producer, songwriter and drummer.He was the drummer for Eurythmics in the mid-to-late 1980s, and also worked on Dave Stewart's solo albums in the 1990s. During his career he has been a programmer for producers such as Robert John "Mutt" Lange; on albums including Shania Twain's...
  
   - drums (all tracks except "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain" & "Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves"), wood stomping on "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain"
• Nathan East
  Nathan East
  Nathan Harrell East is a jazz, R&B and rock bass player and vocalist. East holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from the University of California, San Diego...
  
   - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
   on "Would I Lie to You?" & "Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves"
• Stan Lynch - drums on "Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves"
• Mike Campbell - lead guitar on "Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves" & "Adrian"
• Benmont Tench
  Benmont Tench
  Benjamin Montmorency Tench, III is an American keyboardist best known as a founding member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.-Early years:...
  
   - organ on "Would I Lie to You?" & "Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves"
• Stevie Wonder
  Stevie Wonder
  Stevland Hardaway Morris , better known by his stage name Stevie Wonder, is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and activist...
  
   - harmonica
  Harmonica
  The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...
  
   on "There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart)"
• Dave Plews - trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
   on "Would I Lie to You?" & "It’s Alright (Baby’s Coming Back)"
• Martin Dobson - saxophone
  Saxophone
  The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
  
  s on "Would I Lie to You?" & "It’s Alright (Baby’s Coming Back)"
• Sadie (and other uncredited performers - gravel stomping on "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain"
• Adam Williams - drum programming on "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain"
• Michael Kamen
  Michael Kamen
  Michael Arnold Kamen was an American composer , orchestral arranger, orchestral conductor, song writer, and session musician.-Background:...
  
   - strings on "There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart)" & "Better to Have Lost in Love (Than Never to Have Loved at All)", celeste on "Adrian", keyboard solo & string parts on "Here Comes That Sinking Feeling"
• Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Franklin
  Aretha Louise Franklin is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Although known for her soul recordings and referred to as The Queen of Soul, Franklin is also adept at jazz, blues, R&B, gospel music, and rock. Rolling Stone magazine ranked her atop its list of The Greatest Singers of All...
  
   - guest vocals on "Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves"
• Angel Cross - backing vocals on "There Must Be an Angel (Playing With My Heart)"
• The Charles Williams Singers - backing vocals on "I Love You Like a Ball and Chain", gospel choir
  Gospel music
  Gospel music is music that is written to express either personal, spiritual or a communal belief regarding Christian life, as well as to give a Christian alternative to mainstream secular music....
  
   on "Sisters Are Doin’ It for Themselves"
• Elvis Costello
  Elvis Costello
  Elvis Costello , born Declan Patrick MacManus, is an English singer-songwriter. He came to prominence as an early participant in London's pub rock scene in the mid-1970s and later became associated with the punk/New Wave genre. Steeped in word play, the vocabulary of Costello's lyrics is broader...
  
   - harmony vocals on "Adrian"

Production

• Producer: Dave Stewart
• Engineers: Don Smith, Adam Williams
• Assistant engineer: Jay Willis
• Mixing: Don Smith, Dave Stewart, Adam Williams
• Mastering: Stephen Marcussen
• Sequencing: Dave Stewart
• Recorder: Shelly Yakus
  Shelly Yakus
  Shelly Yakus is considered as one of the best engineers and mixers in the music industry. Formerly chief engineer and vice president of A&M Records, Yakus' engineering work has help sell in excess of one hundred million records, equaling over one billion dollars in sales...
  
  
• Keyboard programming: Annie Lennox
• Drum programming: Dave Stewart
• Art direction: Laurence Stevens
• Design: Laurence Stevens
• Photography: Paul Fortune

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