“Tell Me What You Want” by Zebra

"Tell Me What You Want" was one of the two songs that carried Zebra's self-titled 1983 debut onto radio across the country, and between them they made the record one of Atlantic's fastest-selling debut albums. Randy Jackson wrote it alone and does much of the heavy lifting, singing lead and playing electric guitar, piano, synthesizer and Mellotron.

Felix Hanemann handles bass, keyboards and strings and Guy Gelso plays drums, both of them adding backing vocals, and Jack Douglas produced. It's a hard rock band reaching for something grander, the Mellotron and synths stacked on top of the guitars.

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