| Under a Raging Moon | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Roger Daltrey |
| Cover: | Underaragingmoonalbum.jpg |
| Released: | September 1985 |
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| Length: | 43:41 |
| Label: | Atlantic |
| Producer: | Alan Shacklock |
| Prev Title: | Parting Should Be Painless |
| Prev Year: | 1984 |
| Next Title: | Can't Wait to See the Movie |
| Next Year: | 1987 |
Under a Raging Moon is the sixth solo studio album by English singer Roger Daltrey, released in September 1985 by Atlantic Records. The album reached No. 42 on the US charts, and the single "After the Fire", written by Pete Townshend, reached No. 48. It includes a tribute to Keith Moon, former drummer of the Who who died in 1978, on the track "Under a Raging Moon". In Canada, the album reached No. 33 on the RPM Magazine charts,[1] and "After the Fire" reached No. 53.[2]
The album was produced by Alan Shacklock, recorded at RAK Recording Studios and Odyssey Studios, London, and released on Atlantic Records in the US. Later the album was also released on CD (Atlantic 7 81269-1) in the US, including the bonus track "Love Me Like You Do", written by Andy Nye.[3]
The track "Under a Raging Moon" was written by John Parr and Julia Downes. It was said that John Entwistle had wanted to play this song instead of "Won't Get Fooled Again" at Live Aid in 1985 with the Who, but Pete Townshend disagreed so Entwistle decided to record his own version on his live solo album Left for Live (1999) as a further tribute to Moon.[4]
The album featured Zak Starkey playing drums; this was Starkey's second album that he had worked on, the other being Sun City released in the same year by Artists United Against Apartheid.
Daltrey later recalled "That was the album I really wanted to make ... it got great airplay and sold an awful lot."[5]
Mike DeGagne of AllMusic wrote about the title track: "Daltrey's thunderous but passionate ode to his former friend and drummer Keith Moon is a fervent downpour of frustration that can be truly felt inside every line of the song." DeGagne erroneously credits the entire drum solo section to Mark Brzezicki: He plays one of the seven solos and the primary drum part throughout the rest of the track. Zak Starkey accompanies Brzezicki in a drums duet following the solos and through the song's fadeout.
The track "Love Me Like You Do" was not included on the vinyl release, and was later re-released as the B-side to Daltrey's 1986 single, "Quicksilver Lightning", the theme to the film Quicksilver.
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