Cuts Like a Knife

Tracklist

• 1
  The Only One
  3:14
  4.5 ★
• 2
  Take Me Back
  4:49
  4.5 ★
• 3
  This Time
  3:18
  4.0 ★
• 4
  Straight From the Heart
  3:30
  5.0 ★
• 5
  Cuts Like a Knife
  5:16
  3.5 ★
• 6
  I’m Ready
  3:58
  3.5 ★
• 7
  What’s It Gonna Be
  3:39
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Don’t Leave Me Lonely
  3:09
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Let Him Know
  2:56
• 10
  The Best Was Yet to Come
  3:04
  4.4 ★

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Release credits

• Alfa Anderson
  background vocals [2]
• Bob Clearmountain
  background vocals [5], engineer [1-2, 4-10], mix [3-5], producer, recording [3-5]
• Bruce Allen
  background vocals [5]
• Bryan Adams
  acoustic guitar [7, 9], background vocals, electric guitar [7], guitar [1, 1-2, 2-3, 5-6, 8], lead vocals, piano [4], producer, solo [1-2]
• Dave Taylor
  background vocals [5], electric bass guitar
• Jeff Hendrickson
  assistant [3-5]
• Jim Vallance
  percussion [2-4, 9]
• Jimmy Wesley
  background vocals [5]
• K. Davies
  background vocals [5]
• Keith Scott
  acoustic guitar [10], background vocals [1-5, 7], electric guitar [7, 9], guitar, slide guitar [3], solo [1, 5-8]
• L. Frenette
  background vocals [5]
• Lou Gramm
  background vocals [1-3, 6-9]
• M. Simpson
  background vocals [5]
• Mark Doyle
  background vocals [4]
• Mickey Curry
  drums (drum set)
• Mike Fraser
  assistant [3-5]
• Paul Northfield
  assistant [3-5]
• Robbie Whelan
  assistant [3-5]
• Tommy Mandel
  Hammond organ [1-3, 6-8], keyboard [3-4], organ [4-5, 9], piano [9-10], synthesizer [1, 6-8, 10]
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  18 January 1983
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  18 January 1983
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  Corta Como Un Cuchillo = Cuts Like a Knife

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