Assault & Battery (Rose Tattoo album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Assault & Battery

| type = studio

| artist = Rose Tattoo

| cover = Rose-tattoo-assault-&-battery.jpg

| alt =

| released = September 1981

| recorded = Albert Studios, Sydney, Australia

| studio =

| genre =

Hard rock
blues rock
pop metal{{Cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Assault-Battery-ROSE-TATTOO/dp/B00001ZTRN|title = Assault & Battery|website = Amazon}}

| length =

| label = Albert Productions
WEA Records (Europe)

| producer = Vanda & Young

| prev_title = Rose Tattoo

| prev_year = 1978

| next_title = Scarred For Life

| next_year = 1982

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Assault & Battery

| type = studio

| single1 = Rock 'n' Roll Is King

| single1date = August 1981

| single2 = Assault & Battery

| single2date = 1981 (UK only)

| single3 = Out of This Place

| single3date = 19 Feb 1982

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Record Mirror

| rev1score = {{Rating|5|5}}{{cite magazine|last=Shearlaw|first=John|url=https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/81/Record-Mirror-1981-09-26-OCR.pdf|title=Albums: Oi Oi Aussies. Rose Tattoo – Assault & Battery|magazine=Record Mirror|location=London|publisher=Spotlight Publications Inc.|date=September 26, 1981|page=11|issn=0144-5804|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520095308/https://www.worldradiohistory.com/UK/Record-Mirror/80s/81/Record-Mirror-1981-09-26-OCR.pdf|archivedate=20 May 2024|access-date=7 January 2025}}

}}

Assault & Battery is the second studio album by Australian hard rock band Rose Tattoo, released in September 1981 and peaked at number 27 on the Kent Music Report.

Track listing

"Out of This Place" (Anderson, Cocks)
"All the Lessons" (Anderson, Cocks)
"Let It Go" (Anderson, Cocks)
"Assault & Battery" (Anderson, Cocks)
"Magnum Maid" (Anderson, Wells)
"Rock 'n' Roll Is King" (Anderson, Cocks)
"Manzil Madness" (Anderson, Wells)
"Chinese Dunkirk" (Anderson, Leach, Cocks, Royall, Wells)
"Sidewalk Sally" (Anderson, Cocks)
"Suicide City" (Anderson, Cocks)

Personnel

Angry Anderson – lead vocals
Peter Wells – slide guitar and vocals
Mick Cocks – lead and rhythm guitar
Geordie Leach – bass guitar
Dallas "Digger" Royall – drums
Colin Freeman – engineer
Sam Horsburgh – mixdown engineer

Charts

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"
scope="col"\| Chart (1981–1982) !scope="col"\| Peak position
scope="row"\| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report){{cite book\|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992\|last=Kent\|first=David\|author-link=David Kent (historian)\|publisher=Australian Chart Book\|location=St Ives, NSW\|year=1993\|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988. \| style="text-align:center;"\| 27
{{album chart\|UK2\|40\|date=19810926\|rowheader=true\|accessdate=6 November 2018}}

class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders"

scope="col"| Chart (1981–1982)

!scope="col"| Peak
position

scope="row"| Australian Albums (Kent Music Report){{cite book|title=Australian Chart Book 1970–1992|last=Kent|first=David|author-link=David Kent (historian)|publisher=Australian Chart Book|location=St Ives, NSW|year=1993|isbn=0-646-11917-6}} NOTE: Used for Australian Singles and Albums charting from 1970 until ARIA created their own charts in mid-1988.

| style="text-align:center;"| 27

{{album chart|UK2|40|date=19810926|rowheader=true|accessdate=6 November 2018}}

References

External links

{{Discogs release|1974417|Rose Tattoo – Assault & Battery|type=album}}

Category:1981 albums