Script of the Bridge is the 1983

1983 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1983.-January-April:*January – ZTT Records is founded.*January 8 – The UK singles chart is tabulated from this week forward by The Gallup Organization...

 debut album by The Chameleons

The Chameleons

The Chameleons were an English post-punk band that formed in Middleton, Greater Manchester, England in 1981. They consisted of singer and bassist Mark Burgess, guitarist Reg Smithies, guitarist Dave Fielding, and drummer John Lever...

. The album was later released on limited edition picture disc by Statik Records in 1985. The Chameleons U.K. release in the US on MCA records omitted "Here Today", "Less Than Human", "Paper Tigers" and "View From A Hill".

Track listing

All songs written by Burgess, Fielding, Smithies and Lever.

1. "Don't Fall" – 4:06
2. "Here Today" – 3:57
3. "Monkeyland" – 5:17
4. "Second Skin" – 6:51
5. "Up the Down Escalator" – 3:57
6. "Less than Human" – 4:12
7. "Pleasure and Pain" – 5:11
8. "Thursday's Child" – 3:32
9. "As High as You Can Go" – 3:35
10. "A Person Isn't Safe Anywhere These Days" – 5:43
11. "Paper Tigers" – 4:17
12. "View from a Hill" – 6:39

Musicians

• Mark Burgess
  Mark Burgess (musician)
  Mark Burgess is an English singer, bass player and songwriter. He was the lead singer, co-founder and main force behind English post-punk band The Chameleons. He currently resides in Germany and the UK.-Biography:...
  
   – bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , vocals
• Dave Fielding – 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...
  
  
• Reg Smithies – guitar
• John Lever – drum
  Drum
  The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
  
  s
• Alistair Lewthwaite – 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...
  
  

Technical

• Colin Richardson
  Colin Richardson
  Colin Richardson is a British record producer, mixer and recording engineer. He has worked on over 100 albums, and is most frequently associated with heavy metal and its subgenres such as:*Anathema*As I Lay Dying*Behemoth*Bullet for My Valentine...
  
   – producer
  Record producer
  A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
  
   and engineer
  Audio engineering
  An audio engineer, also called audio technician, audio technologist or sound technician, is a specialist in a skilled trade that deals with the use of machinery and equipment for the recording, mixing and reproduction of sounds. The field draws on many artistic and vocational areas, including...
  
  
• Reg Smithies – cover

External links

• Sleeve notes