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Glamour
Studio album by Show-Ya
Released	24 August 1988
Studio	Music Inn Yamanakako Studio, Studio Sky, Media Burn Studio, Freedom Studio, Take One Studio, Gold Rush Studio, Tokyo, Japan Ameraycan Studio, Hollywood, California
Genre	Hard rock
Length	46:13
Language	Japanese/English
Label	Eastworld / EMI
Producer	Show-Ya
Show-Ya chronology
Turn Over (1988) Glamour (1988) White (1988)
Singles from Glamour
"Aisazu Ni Irarenai - Still Be Hangin' On" / "Get Down" Released: 25 June 1988

Glamour is the sixth album of the Japanese hard rock band Show-Ya. The album was released on 24 August 1988. All musical arrangements are by Makoto Matsushita and Show-Ya. The single "Aisazu Ni Irarenai - Still Be Hangin' on" is Show-Ya's version of an unused demo from the recording sessions of Cheap Trick's Lap of Luxury album. The song is sung both in English and Japanese, with the lyrics translated by Keiko Terada. This album was mixed by Andy Johns in Los Angeles. It reached position No. 16 in the Japanese Oricon chart.

Track listing

1. "I Gotta Your Love" (Keiko Terada) – 3:46
2. "The Wind" (Miki Igarashi, Terada) – 3:30
3. "Aisazu ni Irarenai - Still Be Hangin' On" (愛さずにいられない – Still Be Hangin' On) (Jonathan Cain & Rick Nielsen, trans. Terada) – 3:39
4. "Come On!" (Show-Ya, Terada) – 4:11
5. "Dakareta Mama" (抱かれたまま) (Miki Nakamura, Terada) – 4:25
6. "Keep Me in Your Heart" (Tom Keifer) – 2:50
7. "Rock Train" (Satomi Senba & Miki Tsunoda) – 4:43
8. "Fixer" (フィクサー) (Terada) – 4:24
9. "Yoru no Sei Ja Nai" (夜のせいじゃない) (Terada) – 4:48
10. "Kagirinaku Haruka na Jiyuu E (Go Again)" (限りなくはるかな自由へ～Go Again～) (Igarashi, Terada) – 4:59
11. "We'll Still Be Hangin' On" (Jonathan Cain & Rick Nielsen) – 4:58

Personnel

Band Members

• Keiko Terada – vocals
• Miki Igarashi – guitars
• Miki Nakamura – keyboards
• Satomi Senba – bass
• Miki Tsunoda – drums

Production

• Nobuo Maeda, Yoshikazu Nakabayashi – engineers
• Paul Wertheimer – engineer, mixing at Ameraycan Studio, Hollywood, California
• Ken Nakai, Micajah Ryan, Sachio Yotsumoto, Toshimi Nanseki – assistant engineers
• Andy Johns – mixing
• Yoichi Aikawa – mastering

References

1. "Show Ya Glamour". Heavy Harmonies.com. Retrieved 23 March 2010.
2. ＳＨＯＷ－ＹＡのアルバム売り上げランキング (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved 8 September 2014.

External links

• Show-Ya discography (in Japanese)
• "Aisazu ni Irarenai - Still Be Hangin' On" video clip

• Show-Ya albums
• 1988 albums
• EMI Records albums
• 1980s Japanese-language albums