The Wild, the Willing and the Innocent is the ninth studio album by English
hard rock band
UFO, released on 16 January 1981. Their first to be entirely self-produced. Its song "Lonely Heart" was a minor UK hit.
"We produced it ourselves with nobody breathing over our shoulders. The only problem was it cost twice as much because we kept changing studios and rerecording stuff…. [After Paul Raymond's departure] I tried to get
John Sloman involved because he could sing, play keyboards and guitar, and was just out of
Lone Star like me. He did play on the Wild album, but most of the keyboards are by the brother of the engineer Gary Edwards – until Phil sacked him. We finished that album without a keyboard player, then got Neil Carter in later." –
Paul Chapman[6]
The original cover was, as usual, designed by the art studio
Hipgnosis.
The album was remastered at Sound Recording Technology in
Cambridge in 1994 and reissued on
Repertoire Records. The album was also reissued in 2009, remastered and with an expanded booklet and bonus tracks.
The Wild, the Willing and the Innocent is the ninth studio album by English
hard rock band
UFO, released on 16 January 1981. Their first to be entirely self-produced. Its song "Lonely Heart" was a minor UK hit.
"We produced it ourselves with nobody breathing over our shoulders. The only problem was it cost twice as much because we kept changing studios and rerecording stuff…. [After Paul Raymond's departure] I tried to get
John Sloman involved because he could sing, play keyboards and guitar, and was just out of
Lone Star like me. He did play on the Wild album, but most of the keyboards are by the brother of the engineer Gary Edwards – until Phil sacked him. We finished that album without a keyboard player, then got Neil Carter in later." –
Paul Chapman[6]
The original cover was, as usual, designed by the art studio
Hipgnosis.
The album was remastered at Sound Recording Technology in
Cambridge in 1994 and reissued on
Repertoire Records. The album was also reissued in 2009, remastered and with an expanded booklet and bonus tracks.