Hard is the fourth studio album by the English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 post-punk

Post-punk

Post-punk is a rock music movement with its roots in the late 1970s, following on the heels of the initial punk rock explosion of the mid-1970s. The genre retains its roots in the punk movement but is more introverted, complex and experimental...

 group Gang of Four

Gang of Four (band)

Gang of Four are an English post-punk group from Leeds. Original personnel were singer Jon King, guitarist Andy Gill, bass guitarist Dave Allen and drummer Hugo Burnham. They were fully active from 1977 to 1984, and then re-emerged twice in the 1990s with King and Gill...

. It was originally released in 1983 on Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

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 and was the first album to not feature original member Hugo Burnham

Hugo Burnham

Hugo Burnham was the drummer for the English rock group Gang of Four. Creem magazine's Dave DiMartino said in 1980 "Witness Hugo Burnham, a close-cropped, thickset out-and-out scary drummer who looks like his idea of fun might be pushing young American faces into old American brick walls." He...

, while Dave Allen

Dave Allen (producer/bassist)

Dave Allen was the bass guitarist for the post-punk band, Gang of Four. In 1981, he left Gang of Four to found Shriekback....

 had already left before the previous album, Songs of the Free

Songs of the Free

Songs of the Free is the third studio album by Gang of Four, released in 1982. In 1996, Infinite Zero Archive/American Recordings label issued it on CD, with two bonus tracks, and with a slightly changed song order , and mistitling "I Love a Man in a Uniform" as "I Love a Man in Uniform." EMI...

.

The album was later reissued as part of a two-CD

Compact Disc

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 package along with the band's 1981 album Solid Gold

Solid Gold (album)

Solid Gold is the second album by the British post-punk band Gang of Four, released in 1981. Two of its tracks, "Outside the Trains Don't Run on Time" and "He'd Send in the Army", are re-recordings of songs previously released as a single in the UK....

.

Track listing

All tracks composed by Andy Gill

Andy Gill

Andy Gill is a founding member and guitarist for the English rock group Gang of Four, considered among the most influential post-punk bands...

 and Jon King

Jon King

Jonathan King may refer to:*Jon King , English rock musician, founding member of Gang of Four*Jonathan King, singer*Jonathan King...

; except where indicated

1. "Is It Love" (Gill) – 4:35
2. "I Fled" – 3:54
3. "Silver Lining" - 4:13
4. "Woman Town" (Gill) - 5:12
5. "A Man With a Good Car" - 3:45
6. "It Don't Matter" - 3:54
7. "Arabic" - 3:39
8. "A Piece of My Heart" - 3:14
9. "Independence" - 4:05

Personnel

• Jon King
  Jon King
  Jonathan King may refer to:*Jon King , English rock musician, founding member of Gang of Four*Jonathan King, singer*Jonathan King...
  
   - vocals, melodica
• Andrew Gill
  Andy Gill
  Andy Gill is a founding member and guitarist for the English rock group Gang of Four, considered among the most influential post-punk bands...
  
   - guitar, vocals, additional drums
• Sara Lee
  Sara Lee (musician)
  Sara Lee is an English bassist and singer-songwriter, best known for replacing Dave Allen on bass guitar in post-punk band Gang of Four. Lee confirmed in an interview on Rundgrenradio.com that Sara Lee is her birth name.-Biography:...
  
  - bass
• Jon Astrop - bass
• Alfa Anderson, Brenda White, Chuck Kirkpatric, John Sambatero - background vocals
• Mike Lewis - conductor of strings & horns