Information by Dave Edmunds

Information, Dave Edmunds' 1983 album, was his second for Arista in Britain (Columbia handled it in America), and it marked a first: after years of producing his own records and plenty of other people's, the Welsh guitar slinger handed the controls of a solo record to someone else. That someone was Electric Light Orchestra's Jeff Lynne, who produced two songs, the title track and his own "Slipping Away".

It's a strange, fascinating collision, the Rockpile veteran's rootsy bash meeting Lynne's glossy studio sheen. "Slipping Away" gave Edmunds his first American top-40 hit in 13 years, peaking at No. 39 on the Hot 100, and it remains his last. Elsewhere the record goes back to what he does best, bashing out covers with gusto, among them NRBQ's "I Want You Bad" and the J. Geils Band's "Wait". The album itself peaked at No. 51 in America and No. 92 at home in Britain, and Riff Raff followed in 1984.

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