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$10.00

Chilliwack - Wanna Be a Star

Format: LP
Label: Solid Gold SGR 1006
Year: 1981
Origin: Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦
Genre: rock
Keyword: 
Value of Original Title: $10.00
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Release Type: Albums
Websites:  No
Playlist: Rock Room, 1980's, British Columbia, MOCM Top 1000 Canadian Albums

Tracks

Side 1

Track Name
Sign Here
(So You) Wanna be a Star
Tell it to the Telephone
Too Many Enemies
Living in Stereo

Side 2

Track Name
Mister Rock
My Girl
(Don't Wanna) Live for a Living
Walk On
I Believe

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Information/Write-up

Wanna Be a Star is the ninth album by the Canadian rock band Chilliwack, released in September 1981. At this point, the band had collapsed into a trio, without a full-time drummer, but leader Bill Henderson and guitarist/keyboardist/drummer Brian MacLeod had become a powerful songwriting team during the interim. The single release "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)" became the group's first hit since the 1979 collapse of their former label Mushroom Records, reaching #1 in Canada and giving Chilliwack their U.S. Top 40 breakthrough peaking at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100: "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)" also gave Chilliwack their only evident chart item outside North America reaching #57 in Australia with a disproportionately long chart run of 28 weeks. The success of "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)" led to a touring version of Chilliwack re-forming. The album's second single: "I Believe", released in early 1982, was also a Top 10 Canadian hit and returned Chilliwack to the U.S. Top 40 at #33. In November 1982, Wanna Be a Star was certified Platinum (in excess of 100,000 copies sold) in Canada.

Overall the album is something of a concept album about the "rock and roll" lifestyle and the pursuit of fame. The leadoff track "Sign Here" is a reference to Chilliwack's new quest for mainstream success, tempered by their brush with fame on Mushroom. This was the first album they recorded with Solid Gold Records in Canada, a new Toronto-based label.

Bill Henderson: vocals, guitars, keyboards
Brian MacLeod: vocals, drums, guitars, keyboards
Ab Bryant: bass

Produced by Bill Henderson and Brian MacLeod, assisted by Ab Bryant
Mastered at Sterling Sound

Artwork by Dean Motter
Photography by John Baturin and Tom Robe

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