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McVicar is the soundtrack to the film McVicar and the fourth solo studio album by Roger Daltrey, the lead vocalist for The Who. The film, a biopic of the English bank robber John McVicar, was produced by Daltrey and also featured him in the starring role as John McVicar himself. Because all of the then-members of The Who played on the album, it is often considered to be an unrecognized Who album although there was no participation by the band in the songwriting.

McVicar (Original Soundtrack Recording)
Studio album by Roger Daltrey
Released	June 1980
Studio	Advision Studios, London and Air Studios, Montserrat, West Indies
Genre	Rock hard rock soft rock
Length	36:36
Label	Polydor
Producer	Jeff Wayne
Roger Daltrey chronology
One of the Boys (1977) McVicar (Original Soundtrack Recording) (1980) Best Bits (1982)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
Smash Hits	5/10[2]

The album was released in June 1980, on Polydor PD-1-6284 in the US. It was produced by Jeff Wayne and recorded at Advision Studios, London. Daltrey's vocals were recorded at Air Studios, Montserrat, West Indies. The album reached number 22 in the US and produced Daltrey's highest charting solo single to date, "Without Your Love".[3]

In 2001 Swedish HipHop group Infinite Mass used Daltrey's song "My Time is Gonna Come" (as well as the bass line in the song) for their International hit "Bullet". The music video for "Bullet" composites clips from the film McVicar with new footage.

Track listing

Singles chart positions

• "Free Me", #53
• "Waiting for a Friend", #104
• "Without Your Love", #20[5]

Personnel

• Roger Daltrey - vocals
• Pete Townshend - guitar
• Ricky Hitchcock - guitar
• Billy Nicholls - guitar
• Jo Partridge - slide, electric & acoustic guitars
• John Entwistle - bass
• Herbie Flowers - bass
• Dave Markee - bass
• John "Rabbit" Bundrick - keyboards
• Ken Freeman - synthesizers, keyboards
• Ron Aspery - flute[3]
• Jeff Wayne, Steve Bray - brass arrangements
• Kenney Jones - drums
• Dave Mattacks - drums
• Stuart Elliott - drums
• Frank Ricotti - percussion
• Tony Carr - percussion

Technical

• Jon Walls - engineer, AIR Studios, Montserrat
• Cy Langston, Geoff Young, Laurence Diana - engineer
• Richard Evans - sleeve design
• David James - photography

See also

• Roger Daltrey discography

References

External links

• McVicar at Discogs (list of releases)

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