Item description for Bruce Cockburn Stealing Fire Vinyl LP Gold Mountain GM-80012 1st Pressing 1984

Stealing Fire is an album by Bruce Cockburn released in 1984. It featured the hit singles "If I Had a Rocket Launcher", an angry political commentary on refugees under fire, and "Lovers in a Dangerous Time". John Naslen received a Juno Award for "Recording Engineer of the Year" for his work on this album, and producers Goldsmith and Crawford received a nomination for "Producer of the Year".

Cockburn wrote the song "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" which reached a high of #88 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts with an associated music video regularly played on MTV. Despite the apparent threat of violence in the lyrics, Cockburn would later state, "this is not a call to arms; this is a cry."

"Lovers in a Dangerous Time" and "If I Had a Rocket Launcher" were covered by the Canadian bands Barenaked Ladies and Cottage Industry, respectively, on the 1991 Cockburn tribute album Kick at the Darkness. The Barenaked Ladies cover was released as a single.

In a retrospective review, AllMusic critic Brett Hartenbach wrote the album is the work of an artist at his peak. It also contains some of the most intensely significant material by a singer/songwriter in the 1980s."

Track listing

A1 Lovers In A Dangerous Time

A2 Maybe The Poet

A3 Sahara Gold 4:31

A4 Making Contact

A5 Peggy's Kitchen Wall

B1 To Raise The Morning Star

B2 Nicaragua 4:47

B3 If I Had A Rocket Launcher 4:59

B4 Dust And Diesel 5:24

Personnel

Bruce Cockburn – guitar and vocals

Jon Goldsmith – keyboards, background vocals on "Maybe the Poet" and "Peggy's Kitchen Wall"

Fergus Marsh – bass and Chapman Stick

Miche Pouliot – drums

Chi Sharpe – percussion

Rick Shurman – ground effects on "Maybe the Poet"

Vern Doerge, Jerry Johnson, Mike Malone, Rick Tait – horns on "Making Contact"

Joel Feeney – background vocals on "Lovers in a Dangerous Time"

Paul Henderson – background vocals on "Lovers in a Dangerous Time"

Shawne Jackson – background vocals on "Maybe the Poet", "Making Contact", "Peggy's Kitchen Wall", "Morning Star"

Carole Pope – background vocals on "Maybe the Poet", "Making Contact"

Leroy Sibbles – background vocals on "Maybe the Poet", "Making Contact"

Tim Ryan – background vocals on "Making Contact"

Judy Cade – background vocals on "Peggy's Kitchen Wall"

Kerry Crawford – background vocals on "Peggy's Kitchen Wall"

Colina Phillips – background vocals on "Peggy's Kitchen Wall", "Morning Star"

Sharon Lee Williams – background vocals on "Peggy's Kitchen Wall", "Morning Star"

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