BAGHDAD – Baghdad ’87 [Remastered reissue +1] (2018) HQ *Exclusive*

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Hailing from Rösrath, Germany, formed in the mid-Eighties, BAGHDAD musical focus was to create catchy, radio friendly tunes with sing-along choruses. Mixing melodic hard rock with AOR, and rock&pop pulse, over the years their debut 1987 album “Baghdad” become a sought after piece for fans of these genres.
Produced with an extremely pristine sound and mix, the songs are pretty keyboard-driven in the vein of Scandinavian bands at the time – think a mix of ZINATRA, early FATE, DOMINOE, CRAAFT, GUARDIAN ANGELS, etc, however there’s place for electric guitar.

Songs like midtempo ‘Don’t Take The Night Train’, ‘Dancing On The Moon’, ‘Gambler’, ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’, the more rocking ‘Salome’, ‘Marakesh Express’, are sure to please ’80s fans. BAGHDAD creates lots of harmonies too with multi-part vocal arrangements, adding variation using horns in on track, and actual strings (violins) on other cut.
Despite specialized sites listing this album as the group’s only release, they have other LP from 1989. But they changed the band’s name to THE BEST MEN, to avoid a possible political association.
As said, if you like any of the bands mentioned above, “Baghdad” is a no-brainer.

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01 – Marakesh Express
02 – Dancing On The Moon
03 – Hollywood
04 – Can’t Stand It
05 – Gambler
06 – Nothing Lasts Forever
07 – She Can’t Sleep
08 – Cheek To Cheek
09 – We Need Somebody To Rock
10 – Don’t Take The Night Train
11 – I’ll Keep On Waitin’
12 – Salome
13 – Red Spiderz
14 – Shake It Up, Lucy
BONUS TRACK:
15 – Marrakesh Express (Long Distance-Mix)

Gino La Moon: Lead & Backing Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Bobby Rashidz: Guitar, Backing Vocals
Kenny Medina: Bass
Rick Palace: Drums
Kim Ivory: Percussion, Backing Vocals, Programming
with
Oliver Heilwig, Ulla Wiesner, Gaby Goldberg: Baking Vocals
Helmut Schnut, Wolfgang Lindenau, Gunter Romling: Violin
Thomas Hoffman: Additional Lead Guitars
Alex Gietz: Computer Programming, Brass & String Arranger

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