Tribe (Bernie Taupin album) explained

Tribe
Type:	studio
Artist:	Bernie Taupin
Cover:	BTaupin_Tribe.jpg
Released:	1987
Genre:	Pop rock
Length:	48:06
Label:	RCA
Producer:	Martin Page
Prev Title:	He Who Rides the Tiger
Prev Year:	1980
Next Title:	Last Stand in Open Country (w/ Farm Dogs)
Next Year:	1996

Tribe is the 1987 third solo album by Bernie Taupin issued by RCA Records. The album includes the two singles, "Friend of the Flag" and "Citizen Jane". Music videos were made for both singles.

Track listing

All songs written by Bernie Taupin and Martin Page. Two other songs written by Taupin and Page around the same time, "Backbone" and "White Boys in Chains", were used as the B-sides to the singles "Friend of the Flag" and "Citizen Jane", respectively.

"Friend of the Flag" (4:37)
"Corrugated Iron" (4:54)
"Citizen Jane" (4:55)
"Hold Back the Night" (4:46)
"She Sends Shivers" (with Martha Davis) (4:21)
"Billy Fury" (with Elton John) (4:44)
"I Still Can't Believe That You're Gone" (5:15)
"Conquistador" (4:36)
"The New Lone Ranger" (4:59)
"Desperation Train" (5:11)

Personnel

Tribe (the "band")

Bernie Taupin - lead vocals
Martin Page - electric and Fretless bass, drum and percussion programming, additional keyboards, vocals
Brian Fairweather - guitar, vocals
Paul Fox - keyboards
Craig Krampf - drums, additional drum programming, vocals

Additional musicians

Bruce Hornsby - piano, accordion
Larry Williams - saxophone
Hammer Smith - harmonica
Fred Mandel - keyboards
Paul Delph - keyboards, backing vocals
Martha Davis – lead vocals on "She Sends Shivers"

Additional backing vocalists

Stevie Bensusen, John Cannon, Alan Carvell, Tommy Funderburk, Elton John, Shirley Lewis, Gordon Neville, Sylvia St. James, Hamish Stuart, Margaret Taylor

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Notes and References

Album Sleeve Liner Notes of Bernie Taupin- Tribe vinyl album (1987)
Book: Kent, David. David Kent (historian). Australian Chart Book 1970–1992. illustrated. Australian Chart Book. St Ives, N.S.W.. 1993. 0-646-11917-6. 305.