Back to Earth

Tracklist

• 1
  Just Another Night
  4:37
• 2
  Daytime
  3:54
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Bad Brakes (Part 1)
• 4
  Bad Brakes (Part 2)
• 5
  Randy
  3:08
  3.0 ★
• 6
  The Artist
  2:27
  4.0 ★
• 7
  Last Love Song
  3:27
  5.0 ★
• 8
  Nascimento
  3:14
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Father (Part 1)
• 10
  Father (Part 2)
• 11
  New York Times
  3:24
  3.0 ★
• 12
  Never
  2:59
  4.0 ★

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Release credits

• BJ Cole
  steel guitar [1]
• Bruce Lynch
  bass [1, 5-8, 12]
• Cat Stevens
  choir vocals [2, 7], classical guitar [2], electric guitar [8], guitar [1, 5-7, 12], keyboard [1-2, 5-7], producer [1-2, 5-8, 11-12], strings [11], synthesizer [11]
• Dave Mattacks
  drums (drum set) [2, 5, 7]
• Del Newman
  strings [6-7]
• Derek Wadsworth
  orchestrator [2], strings [5]
• Don Weller
  saxophone [8]
• Gerry Conway
  congas [8], drums (drum set) [1, 8, 12]
• Jean‐Alain Roussel
  Hammond organ [11], electric piano [7-8], keyboard [12], piano [1], strings [11]
• John Marson
  harp [2]
• Luther Vandross
  vocal [11]
• Paul Samwell-Smith
  choir vocals [2, 7], producer [1-2, 5-8, 11-12]
• Steve Jordan
  drums (drum set) [11]
• The McCrarys
  vocal [11]
• Will Lee
  bass [11]
• Yusuf Islam
  phonographic copyright [2]
• Show all credits (16)

Issues

• B
  (Combined release view)
• B
  Back to Earth

  8-Track Cartridge
  21 November 1978
• 

  B
  Back to Earth

  12" Vinyl
  December 1978
• 

  B
  Back to Earth

  CD
  13 February 2001
• 

  B
  Back to Earth

  CD
  19 March 2001
• B
  Back to Earth

  CD
  22 November 2019
• 

  B
  Back to Earth

  Digital Media (2019 remaster)
  22 November 2019
• 

  B
  Back to Earth

  5x CD (super deluxe 40th anniversary edition)
  31 July 2020
• 

  B
  Back to Earth

  12" Vinyl
  1978