Line Up [Import]

Graham Bonnet | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 16, 1997)
• Original Release Date: 1997
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Polygram Int'l
• ASIN: B00000769N
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #903,201 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Night Games

2. S.O.S.

3. I'm a Lover

4. Be My Baby

5. That's the Way That It Is

6. Liar

7. Anthony Boy

8. Dirty Hand

9. Out on the Water

10. Don't Stand in the Open

11. Set Me Free

Editorial Reviews

Japanese only SHM-CD (Super High Material CD - playable on all CD players) paper sleeve pressing. Universal. 2009. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Could have been the perfect Line Up..., May 21, 2004

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Nicole Emery "purpletemple" (Brussels Belgium) - See all my reviews
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Good album but could have been better considering the musicians involved in the project(Lord-Moody-Powell).
Graham Bonnet is definitly a great singer who can deliver solid Hard rock performances as well as cool/crooner type of vocals.
It is a high quality album in term of production (even if very 80's) and performance-both vocal and musical, but sometimes feels like an embryonic version of Rainbow's "Down to Earth" or Whitesnake's "Slide it In".
A must have for every Bonnet fan, Jon Lord and Micky Moody fans will find the solos a bit short...

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars good indication of things to come, April 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Line Up (Audio CD)

probably the earliest bonnet album available ( just try finding a cd of "no bad habits")..but right around the time of the rainbow album "down to earth". This album is a great even flow of good melodic rock from the industry's most ignored talent. Theres always been something so cool to me about Bonnet, who has fronted so many classic bands while resembling a pompadored disco king, but he has the pipes to make any album hes on blow away the competition. Most of the songs are good hard rock tunes backed up by cozy powell, mick moody and deep purples jon lord. I personally could do without the doo wop cover tunes, but if you want to hear what promted ritchie blackmore to hire him for rainbow...give it a listen.

4.0 out of 5 stars `Rainbow' meets `Whitesnake'- featuring Graham Bonnet, Mick Moody and Cozy Powell, January 12, 2012

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Nikiforos V. Skoumas (Athens Greece, Cambridge UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Line Up (Audio CD)

"Line Up" is the third studio album by hard rock singer Graham Bonnet originally released in 1981, reissued by "Lemon Recordings" in 2004. A mere year after Bonnet quit British rock powerhouse "Rainbow", the singer was already marketing a promising single as a solo artist, the song being "Night Games".

On the charting strength of "Night Games", Graham was contracted for a full length studio album, which was to be the sarcastically titled "Line Up" (since it is essentially a solo album). In retrospect "Line Up" did feature a remarkable cast of musicians with guitarist Mick Moody ("Whitesnake") and drum legend Cozy Powell ("Rainbow") being constant throughout the album.

Though "Line Up" is often considered an AOR album (and for the biggest part it is), it is clearly not produced to the standards of the genre; The guitar parts are pretty rough sounding and the drumming is intense though far from over-produced. In fact "Line Up" sounds very similar to late `70s "Rainbow" hence not dissimilar to the sound found on the "Down to Earth" album. The AOR tunes in question are the Russ Ballard-written "S.O.S", "I'm a lover", "That's the way it is" and "Liar". Form there onwards the album takes a turn towards bluesy rock `n' roll on songs like "Anthony Boy", "Dirty Hand" and "Out on the Water" which should not come as a surprise baring in mind the involvement of the "Whitesnake" guitarist.

Overall "Line Up" brings to front a fair mixture of late `70s "Rainbow" and early `80s "Whitensake" styled music which I suppose is all fans of the singer could ask for. Indeed "Line Up" stands artistically somewhere between "Down to Earth" and "Lovehunter".