| Here Comes the Night | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | David Johansen |
| Cover: | Here Comes the Night (David Johansen album).jpg |
| Released: | 1981 |
| Studio: | Sundragon Studios, New York City |
| Genre: | Rock |
| Length: | 35:14 |
| Label: | Blue Sky |
| Prev Title: | In Style |
| Prev Year: | 1979 |
| Next Title: | Live It Up |
| Next Year: | 1982 |
Here Comes the Night is an album by the American musician David Johansen.[1] Released in 1981, Blondie Chaplin produced the album (for Blondie Chaplin's writing contributions, his middle name William is used and he is listed as "Bill Chaplin").
The album marks the first time Johansen recorded an album without a significant contribution from his fellow New York Dolls bandmate, Sylvain Sylvain (with the exception of co-writing one song, Sylvain does not appear on the album). Johansen also recruited the third-in-a-row producer for Here Comes the Night in an attempt to identify a unique sound, rather than a continual evolution of the New York Dolls sound. The tracks on the album have more of a contemporary beat, which would continue to be developed into Johansen's alter-ego, Buster Poindexter. The song "Heart of Gold" would later appear on Buster Poindexter's debut album, Buster Poindexter.
Robert Christgau wrote: "With the help of sideperson extraordinaire Blondie Chaplin, the pater-familias has finally mastered his own fast, vulgar studio-rock style, and this is his best solo, though only we who truly love him will hear it that way."