Naked (Kissing the Pink album) explained

Naked
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Kissing the Pink
Cover:	Kissing The Pink Naked LP 1983.jpg
Released:	^[1]
Studio:	AIR (London, UK)
Genre:	New wave synth-pop electronic
Label:	Magnet
Producer:	Colin Thurston Peter Walsh Neil Richmond David King Kissing the Pink
Next Title:	What Noise
Next Year:	1984

Naked is the debut studio album by English new wave and synth-pop band Kissing the Pink, released on 27 May 1983 by Magnet Records. The album peaked at No. 54 on the UK Albums Chart in June 1983,^[2] and produced their Top 20 hit "The Last Film". The song was their best performing single in the UK, and the only one to break the top 75. It is their only album to feature singer Sylvia Griffin who left the band before the album was completed.

32 years after its original release, Naked was reissued in 2015 as a remastered special edition CD by Cherry Red, which includes the 12 original album tracks plus seven related bonus tracks all sourced from the original master tapes.^[3]

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the Naked liner notes.^[4]

Kissing the Pink

• Nicholas Whitecross – guitar; vocals
• Jon Kingsley Hall – keyboards; synthesizer; vocals
• George Stewart – keyboards; vocals
• Josephine Wells – saxophone; vocals
• Stevie Cusack – drums; percussion; vocals
• Peter Barnett – bass; violin; vocals
• Sylvia Griffin – vocals (uncredited)

Production and artwork

• Colin Thurston – producer
• Peter Walsh – producer
• Neil Richmond – producer
• David King – producer
• Kissing the Pink – producer
• Tim Barnett – front cover painting
• Shoot That Tiger! – art direction; design

Notes and References

1. News. Record Mirror. 14 May 1983. 4. flickr.com. 15 December 2020.
2. Web site: Official Charts – Kissing the Pink. . June 18, 2016.
3. Web site: Naked: Expanded Edition – Kissing the Pink . Cherry Red. 10 December 2019.
4. Naked. Kissing the Pink. 1983. Magnet Records. CD booklet.