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Green Light is a studio album by Cliff Richard, released in September 1978. It was his 21st studio album.

Green Light
Studio album by Cliff Richard
Released	29 September 1978
Recorded	July 1977, January - April 1978 [1]
Genre	Pop, rock
Label	EMI, Rocket (US)
Producer	Bruce Welch
Cliff Richard chronology
Small Corners (1978) Green Light (1978) Thank You Very Much (1979)
Singles from Green Light
"Please Remember Me" Released: 28 July 1978[2] "Can't Take the Hurt Anymore" Released: 3 November 1978[3] "Green Light" Released: 16 February 1979[4]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[5]

Background

Cliff Richard had seen a dip in popularity in the early 1970s until his 1976 album I'm Nearly Famous gave him major success. This comeback kept Richard regularly in the charts until the mid-1980s. Of the albums released during this period, only the 1978 Small Corners gospel album and Green Light failed to make the top 10. The latter, with full commercial expectations proved to be a particular disappointment, only reaching No.25 in the album charts and failing to provide any high charting singles.[6] The lead single, "Please Remember Me" failed to chart at all, as did the follow-up, "Can't Take the Hurt Anymore". This left Richard without a hit single in 1978, only the second year since 1958 that this had happened. A third and final release, the title track "Green Light" finally gave him a chart entry in early 1979, but only managed to creep up to No.57.[6] Despite the album's lack of commercial success, Green Light was well received by critics. Allmusic stating that this was "Richard at his most commercial and appealing and deserved to be more widely heard - particularly in the US".[7] Probably the most well-known song on the album however was "Count Me Out", which was later released as the B-side to Richard's 1979 single "We Don't Talk Anymore", which was the song that got his revival back on track by becoming the biggest selling single of his career.[8] Another ballad, the striking "Never Even Thought" with intense lyrics and heavy orchestration building to a dramatic crescendo, was first released by Murray Head in 1975 on his album Say It Ain't So and also covered by Colin Blunstone in 1978. Richard later remixed his original version of the track and added new instrumentation for his remix album My Kinda Life in 1992.

Since his 1977 Every Face Tells a Story album, Richard had released two other albums - a Christian music album, Small Corners and a compilation album 40 Golden Greats, which had reached No.1 in November 1977.[6] Soon after this, he also released a live album, Thank You Very Much, which celebrated 20 years of Cliff Richard and The Shadows in the music business.

The title track was covered in 1979 by Yvonne Elliman on her album Yvonne.

Green Light was remastered and re-issued on Compact disc in July 2002.[9][10]

Track listing

Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Green Light" Alan Tarney 4:05 2. "Under Lock and Key" Terry Britten 3:34 3. "She's a Gypsy" John D. Bryant,[11] Terry Dempsey 4:14 4. "Count Me Out" Terry Britten, Bruce Welch 4:15 5. "Please Remember Me" Dave Loggins, Bruce Woodley 3:20 6. "Never Even Thought" Murray Head 4:16

Side two No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "Free My Soul" Terry Britten 3:56 2. "Start All Over Again" Terry Britten, B.A. Robertson 4:02 3. "While She's Young" Terry Britten 2:50 4. "Can't Take the Hurt Anymore" Laurie Andrew 3:52 5. "Ease Along" Trevor Spencer, Alan Tarney 4:29

Bonus tracks (2002 re-issue) No. Title Writer(s) Length 12. "Please Don't Tease" Peter Chester, Bruce Welch 4:47 13. "Needing a Friend" Cliff Richard, Gary Isherwood 2:57 14. "Imagine Love" Petrina Lordan,[12] Alan Tarney 4:20

Personnel

• Cliff Richard - vocals
• Alan Tarney - guitar, bass, keyboards, backing vocals
• Alan Parker, Terry Britten, Tim Renwick - guitar
• Alan Jones - bass
• Duncan Mackay, Graham Todd - keyboards
• Brian Bennett, Trevor Spencer - drums
• John Perry, Stuart Calver, Tony Rivers - backing vocals
• Richard Hewson - string arrangement
• Gered Mankowitz - photography

Chart history

Release date	Single title																																																																UK Chart peak
28 July 1978	"Please Remember Me"																																																																-
3 November 1978	"Can't Take the Hurt Anymore"																																																																-
16 February 1979	"Green Light"																																																																57
Release date	Album title																																																																UK Chart peak
29 September 1978	Green Light																																																																25

References

External links

"Review of Green Light album - Cliff Richard, 1978". glorydazemusic.com. Retrieved 26 June 2017.

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