1980

Tracklist

• 1
  Shut Um Down
  3:37
• 2
  Alien (Hold on to Your Dream)
  4:25
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Willing
  4:07
  5.0 ★
• 4
  Corners
  4:49
  5.0 ★
• 5
  1980
  6:00
  5.0 ★
• 6
  Push Comes to Shove
  4:04
• 7
  Shah Mot (The Shah Is Dead/Checkmate)
  3:28
• 8
  Late Last Night
  5:13

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Release credits

• Bill Watrous
  horn
• Brian Jackson
  arranger, background vocals [5], drums (drum set) [1], kettle drum [7], keyboard, producer, synthesizer [7]
• Carl Cornwell
  flute, saxophone [5-6]
• Denis Sirias
  horn
• Donn Davenport
  art direction
• Ed Brady
  guitar [5-6]
• Gil Scott‐Heron
  producer
• Gordon Goodwin
  horn
• Harvey Mason
  drums (drum set) [2-8]
• John E. Barrett
  photography
• John Ford
  photography
• Julia Waters
  background vocals
• Malcolm Cecil
  engineer, mix, producer
• Marlo Henderson
  guitar [1-2, 4, 8]
• Marti McCall
  background vocals
• Maxine Waters
  background vocals
• Ron Kellum
  art direction
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Issues

• 1
  1980

  12" Vinyl
  1980
• 1
  1980

  12" Vinyl
  1980
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  1
  1980

  12" Vinyl
  1980
• 1
  1980

  CD
  24 August 1994
• 1
  1980

  CD
  2009