Roll With It by Steve Winwood

Roll With It, Steve Winwood's fifth solo album, came out on Virgin on 20 June 1988, two years after Back in the High Life, and it finds the old Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith hand with his blue-eyed soul fully polished for the late '80s. Tom Lord-Alge produced, and the sound is all punchy, glossy bounce under that high, soulful tenor.

The title track was the big one, topping both the pop and rock singles charts, and its success opened the door for "Don't You Know What the Night Can Do?" and "Holding On". The former had been written for a Michelob ad campaign, whose TV ads started airing in America the very day the album came out there. "Hearts on Fire" and "Put on Your Dancing Shoes" picked up airplay too. It became one of his biggest sellers: number one on the Billboard 200, number four in Britain, and more than three million copies sold.

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