On Target

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{{Infobox album

| name = On Target

| type = Studio

| artist = Fastway

| cover = Fastway_On_Target.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1988

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = Chapel Recording Studios, Swaby, Lincolnshire, UK

| genre = Hard rock, heavy metal

| length = 44:23

| label = GWR, Enigma

| producer = Eddie Clarke, Lea Hart

| prev_title = Trick or Treat

| prev_year = 1986

| next_title = Bad Bad Girls

| next_year = 1990

| misc = {{Singles

| name = On Target

| type = studio

| single1 = A Fine Line" / "Change of Heart

| single1date = 1988

| single2 = Dead or Alive" / "Let Him Rock

| single2date = 1988

}}

}}

On Target is the fifth studio album by British rock band Fastway, and their first album without original frontman Dave King.

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = AllMusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|1.5|5}}{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/on-target-mw0000845733 |title=Fastway - On target review |last=Anderson |first=Jason |work=AllMusic |publisher=All Media Network |accessdate=12 December 2016 }}

| rev2 = Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal

| rev2Score = 0/10{{cite book | last1 = Popoff | first1 = Martin | authorlink1 = Martin Popoff | title = The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties | publisher = Collector's Guide Publishing | date = 1 November 2005 | location = Burlington, Ontario, Canada | isbn = 978-1894959315 | page= 118}}

| noprose = yes

}}

Track listing

{{tracklist

| title1 = Dead or Alive

| writer1 = Lea Hart, Ray Callcut

| length1 = 3:52

| title2 = Change of Heart

| writer2 = Christopher O'Shaughnessy, Eddie Clarke, Hart

| length2 = 3:41

| title3 = A Fine Line

| writer3 = Terry Thomas

| length3 = 4:55

| title4 = Two Hearts

| writer4 = O'Shaughnessy, Clarke, Hart

| length4 = 4:02

| title5 = You

| writer5 = Les White, Thomas

| length5 = 3:32

| title6 = Let Him Rock

| writer6 = O'Shaughnessy, Clarke, Hart

| length6 = 4:34

| title7 = She Is Danger

| writer7 = Clarke, Hart

| length7 = 5:12

| title8 = Show Some Emotion

| writer8 = Bernie Marsden, Brian Badhams, Don Airey, Robert Hawthorn

| length8 = 5:05

| title9 = These Dreams

| writer9 = O'Shaughnessy, Clarke, Hart

| length9 = 4:19

| title10 = Close Your Eyes

| writer10 = White, Thomas

| length10 = 4:11

}}

Personnel

;Fastway

;Additional musicians

  • Don Airey, Paul Airey - keyboards
  • Neil Murray - bass
  • Tim 'Nibbs' Carter - bass, backing vocals
  • Terry Thomas - bass synths, backing vocals, arrangements with Fastway
  • Gary Ferguson - drums
  • Christopher O'Shaughnessy - backing vocals, pre-production, arrangements with Fastway
  • Tim Cutting, Bram Tchaikovsky - backing vocals
  • Christine Byford - female vocals on "She Is Danger"

;Production

  • Matt Kemp - engineer
  • Vernon Austin - mixing

References