Parting Should Be Painless is Roger Daltrey

Roger Daltrey

Roger Harry Daltrey, CBE , is an English singer and actor, best known as the founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who. He has maintained a musical career as a solo artist and has also worked in the film industry, acting in a large number of films, theatre and television roles and also...

's fifth solo album released in 1984. The vinyl album was released on Atlantic 80128-1, USA, and reached #102 on the US music charts. A single, "Walking in My Sleep", reached #56 on the US singles charts. The album was produced by Mike Thorne, with executive producer listed as "Spike". This is presumably the same woman who was credited as executive producer of Pete Townshend

Pete Townshend

Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career...

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Scoop (album)

Scoop is a compilation album by Pete Townshend containing 25 demos of various released and unreleased Who songs, as well as demos of entirely new material.-History:...

album, later revealed to be Helen Wilkins. The album was re-released as an audio CD on 12 October 2004, by Wounded Bird Records.

Side one

1. "Walking in My Sleep" (Leslie Adey, Jack Green) – 3:28
2. "Parting Should Be Painless" (Kit Hain) – 3:41
3. "Is There Anybody Out There?" (Nicky Chinn
   Nicky Chinn
   Nicky Chinn born Nicholas Barry Chinn, 16 May 1945, London, UK) is a British songwriter and record producer. Together with Mike Chapman he had a long string of hit singles in the UK and US in the 1970s and early 1980s, including several number-one records...
   
   , Steve Glen) – 4:17
4. "Would a Stranger Do?" (Steve Andrews, Simon Climie) – 3:33
5. "Going Strong" (Bryan Ferry
   Bryan Ferry
   Bryan Ferry, CBE is an English singer, musician, and songwriter. Ferry came to public prominence in the early 1970s as lead vocalist and principal songwriter with the band Roxy Music, who enjoyed a highly successful career with three number one albums and ten singles entering the top ten charts in...
   
   ) – 5:08

Side two

1. "Looking for You" (Kit Hain) 3:20
2. "Somebody Told Me" (Annie Lennox
   Annie Lennox
   Annie Lennox, OBE , born Ann Lennox, is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving minor success in the late 1970s with The Tourists, with fellow musician David A...
   
   , Dave Stewart
   David A. Stewart
   David Allan Stewart , often known as Dave Stewart, is an English musician, songwriter and record producer, best known for his work with Eurythmics. He is usually credited as David A. Stewart, to avoid confusion with other musicians named "Dave Stewart".-Early life:Stewart was born in Sunderland,...
   
   ) – 3:07
3. "One Day" (Gerald Milne) – 3:10
4. "How Does the Cold Wind Cry" (Colin Towns) – 3:46
5. "Don't Wait on the Stairs
   Fresh Blood
   Fresh Blood is a 1980 album by the English singer/songwriter Steve Swindells. Swindells is backed on this album by guitarist Huw Lloyd-Langton and drummer Simon King, both from Hawkwind, and basist Nic Potter from Van der Graaf Generator....
   
   " (Steve Swindells
   Steve Swindells
   Steve Swindells is an English singer-songwriter, keyboardist, party organiser, club promoter and journalist.Swindells grew up in the Bath and Bristol area, dropping out of art college to play keyboards with the rock band Squidd. Relocating to London in 1973 and living in squats, he recorded his...
   
   ) – 6:33

Personnel

• Roger Daltrey - vocals, harmonica
• Michael Brecker
  Michael Brecker
  Michael Leonard Brecker was an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Acknowledged as "a quiet, gentle musician widely regarded as the most influential tenor saxophonist since John Coltrane," he has been awarded 15 Grammy Awards as both performer and composer and was inducted into Down Beat Jazz...
  
   - tenor saxophone
• Chris Spedding
  Chris Spedding
  Chris Spedding is an English rock and roll and jazz guitarist, best known for his session work. Allmusic states - "Spedding is one of the UK's most versatile session guitarists, and has had a long career on two continents that saw him tackle nearly every style of rock and roll, as well as...
  
   - guitar
• Mick Gallagher - keyboards
• Robert Medici - marimba
• Billy Nicholls
  Billy Nicholls
  Billy Nicholls is an English singer, songwriter, record producer and musical director, who first gained fame in the 1960s while still a teenager with his Pet Sounds influenced album, Would You Believe, originally released on Immediate Records.Nicholls' compositions have been covered by many...
  
   - backing vocals
• Allan Schwartzberg
  Allan Schwartzberg
  Allan Schwartzberg is a famous studio musician drummer, most of whose recordings were made in the 1970s. He has played on hits such as Gloria Gaynor's "Never Can Say Goodbye". He has played with KISS, James Brown and Peter Gabriel as well...
  
   - drums
• Mike Thorne - synthesizer
• David Tofani - clarinet
• Norman Watt-Roy
  Norman Watt-Roy
  Norman Watt-Roy is the bassist for The Blockheads, previously known as Ian Dury & the Blockheads.In November 1954 the Watt-Roy family, including Norman, his older brother Garth and his sister, moved to England...
  
  - bass guitar