Sheffield Steel Explained

Sheffield Steel
Type:album
Artist:Joe Cocker
Cover:Sheffield Steel.jpg
Released:May 1982
Studio:Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas
Length:38:19
Label:Island
Prev Title:Luxury You Can Afford
Prev Year:1978
Next Title:Civilized Man
Next Year:1984

Sheffield Steel is the eighth studio album by Joe Cocker, produced by Chris Blackwell and Alex Sadkin, with Sly and Robbie, Wally Badarou, Barry Reynolds, Mikey Chung and Uziah "Sticky" Thompson, a.k.a. the Compass Point Allstars, a studio band named after the legendary Compass Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas, and released in 1982. This was Cocker's first album for Island Records and followed a four-year break in recording for the singer following his previous album, Luxury You Can Afford. It was re-released in 2002 with several bonus tracks.

Track listing

  1. "Look What You've Done" (Leo Nocentelli) - 4:14
  2. "Shocked" (Ira Ingber, Gregg Sutton) - 3:13
  3. "Sweet Little Woman" (Andy Fraser) - 4:01
  4. "Seven Days" (Bob Dylan) - 5:23
  5. "Marie" (Randy Newman) - 2:34
  6. "Ruby Lee" (Bill Withers, Melvin Dunlap) - 4:24
  7. "Many Rivers to Cross" (Jimmy Cliff) - 3:43
  8. "So Good, So Right" (Brenda Russell) - 2:33
  9. "Talking Back to the Night" (Steve Winwood, Will Jennings) - 4:49
  10. "Just Like Always" (Jimmy Webb) - 3:25

Bonus tracks

  1. "Sweet Little Woman" (Andy Fraser) [12" mix] - 5:59
  2. "Look What You've Done" (Leo Nocentelli) [12" mix] - 8:40
  3. "Right in the Middle (Of Falling in Love)" (Sam Dees) - 3:48
  4. "Inner City Blues" (Marvin Gaye, James Nyx Jr.) - 5:20

Personnel

Production

Chart performance

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YearChartPosition
1982Norway9
Australia14
New Zealand14
Denmark15
Canada21
Germany46
U.S. Billboard105