In Style (David Johansen album)
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{{Infobox album
|name = In Style
|type = Album
|artist = David Johansen
|cover = In Style (album).jpg
|alt =
|released = 1979
|recorded =
|venue =
|studio = The Schoolhouse, Westpoint, Connecticut
|genre = Rock
|length = 38:43
|label = Blue Sky
|producer = Mick Ronson, David Johansen
|prev_title = David Johansen
|prev_year = 1978
|next_title = Here Comes the Night
|next_year = 1981
}}
{{Music ratings
|rev1 = AllMusic
|rev1score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite web|last=Deming|first=Mark|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/in-style-mw0000273028|title=In Style – David Johansen|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=November 11, 2020}}
|rev2 = MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide
|rev2score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1996 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=366}}
|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
|rev3score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{cite book|last=Evans|first=Paul|editor1-last=DeCurtis|editor1-first=Anthony|editor1-link=Anthony DeCurtis|editor2-last=Henke|editor2-first=James|editor3-last=George-Warren|editor3-first=Holly|chapter=David Johansen|title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|title-link=The Rolling Stone Album Guide|publisher=Random House|edition=3rd|year=1992|isbn=0-679-73729-4|pages=371–72}}
| rev4 = The Village Voice
| rev4score = B+{{cite news|last=Christgau|first=Robert|author-link=Robert Christgau|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cgv10-79.php|title=Christgau's Consumer Guide|newspaper=The Village Voice|date=October 8, 1979|accessdate=November 11, 2020}}
}}
In Style is the second solo album by the American musician David Johansen. It was released in 1979 on Blue Sky Records.
Background
Johansen's self-titled solo debut earned favorable reviews but low sales. Consequently, In Style – featuring more pop-style songs such as "Melody" and "Swaheto Woman" – was designed to be more commercial.
"Swaheto Woman", released as a single, provided Johansen's first disco song. "Swaheto Woman" and three other tracks were cowritten by Johansen's friend and fellow New York Doll, Sylvain Sylvain. “She Knew She was Falling in Love” and “Wreckless Crazy” had both been performed by the Dolls after the departures of Thunders, Nolan and Kane.
In Style features Ian Hunter and Dan Hartman.
Of the closing "Flamingo Road", Johnny Depp remarked: "I think it's about his experience of losing his wife to Steven Tyler, and the words are beautifully written, beautifully executed. The whole record's great. Johansen was doing some great shit back then."{{cite magazine|last=Rowley|first=Scott|title=The interview: Johnny Depp|magazine=Classic Rock|issue=231|date=January 2017|page=13}}
Track listing
{{track listing
|all_writing = David Johansen. Co-writers as indicated.
|headline = Side one
|title1 = Melody
|writer1 = Ronnie Guy
|length1 = 2:58
|title2 = She
|writer2 = Buz Verno
|length2 = 2:21
|title3 = Big City
|length3 = 4:09
|title4 = She Knew She Was Falling in Love
|writer4 = Sylvain Sylvain
|length4 = 3:46
|title5 = Swaheto Woman
|writer5 = Sylvain
|length5 = 5:05
}}
{{Track listing
|headline = Side two
|title6 = Justine
|length6 = 4:34
|title7 = In Style
|length7 = 4:08
|title8 = You Touched Me Too
|writer8 = Ráo
|length8 = 2:23
|title9 = Wreckless Crazy
|writer9 = Sylvain
|length9 = 3:17
|title10 = Flamingo Road
|writer10 = Sylvain
|length10 = 6:02
|total_length = 38:43
}}
Personnel
- Mick Ronson – producer, guitar
- David Johansen – keyboards, guitar, vocals, producer
- Stan Bronstein – saxophone
- Ronnie Guy – piano
- Dan Hartman – bass, backing vocals
- Ian Hunter – acoustic piano on "Flamingo Road"
- Frankie LaRocka – drums, backing vocals
- Tom Mandel – organ
- Johnny Ráo – guitar
- Dave Still – engineer, backing vocals
- Sylvain Sylvain – backing vocals
- Gary Green – backing vocals
- Tommy Trask – guitar, backing vocals
- Buz Verno – bass
- Gene Orloff – orchestra conductor on "Melody", arranged by David Johansen and Mick Ronson
Technical
- Harvey Goldberg – engineer
- George Marino – mastering
- Paula Scher – design
- Richard Avedon – cover and sleeve photography
References
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- [http://www.allmusic.com/album/in-style-mw0000273028 David Johansen: In Style]
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