Sahara by House of Lords

Sahara, House of Lords' second album, rolled out on RCA Records on August 21, 1990, with Gene Simmons in the producer's chair and a guest list that reads like a backstage pass. Original guitarist Lanny Cordola sat this one out, so Doug Aldrich handled the six-string, and the band called in reinforcements: Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick, Chris Impellitteri and Mandy Meyer of Asia and Krokus all add guitar, while White Lion's Mike Tramp, Cheap Trick's Robin Zander, Steeler's Ron Keel, Autograph's Steve Plunkett and David Glen Eisley of Giuffria pile on backing vocals.

At the core, James Christian sings, Gregg Giuffria spreads keyboards wall to wall, and Ken Mary and Chuck Wright hold down drums and bass, making the kind of polished, arena-sized hard rock that glam metal was built on. Nielsen wrote "Heart on the Line", and Cheap Trick got around to cutting it themselves on Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello in 2016. The album climbed to 121 on the Billboard 200 early in 1991.

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