Album · Adrian Belew
Young Lions by Adrian Belew
Young Lions is an album by Adrian Belew, released in 1990. 1 song from it has charted on rock radio countdowns, with 5 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Pretty Pink Rose”, on 5 lists with a best position of #71.
Young Lions, Adrian Belew's fifth solo album, came out on Atlantic Records in May 1990, while he was running the band and playing lead guitar for David Bowie on the Sound+Vision Tour, and the boss drops in. Bowie sings on two tracks, "Pretty Pink Rose" and "Gunman", the second a song the two of them wrote together.
Belew's guitar still honks, squeals and yowls like a zoo after dark, and the record spreads itself wide. He covers "Heartbeat", a song he co-wrote back in King Crimson, and the Traveling Wilburys' "Not Alone Anymore" as a tribute to the recently departed Roy Orbison. Weirdest of all is "I Am What I Am", built around decades-old tapes of the Nashville radio preacher Prophet Omega that Al Kooper had passed along from his stash of oddball recordings; Belew even listed Omega as a co-writer.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from Young Lions on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pretty Pink Rose | 5 | #71 | – | 1990–2003 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.