Body and the Beat by Dragon

Body and the Beat, Dragon's seventh studio album, arrived on Polydor in June 1984, their first new studio record since Power Play back in 1979, and it went gold the week it came out before hitting number 5 on the Kent Music Report and going platinum in Australia. The comeback wasn't a straight reunion. Marc Hunter was back out front, but Alan Mansfield came in as a second keyboard player and Terry Chambers took Kerry Jacobson's place.

The bigger shift was behind the songs. Paul Hewson, the keyboard player who'd written most of their '70s hits, barely contributed this time, so bassist Todd Hunter stepped up with his partner Johanna Pigott, fresh from their stint together in XL Capris. "Rain", written by the Hunter brothers and Pigott, had already been a number two hit in 1983, all slick synths and heavy-lidded menace, and Robert Taylor's "Magic" went out as a single too. It earned a Best Australian Album nomination at the Countdown Music Awards.

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