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Steeltown

This article is about the 1984 album by Big Country. For the city nicknamed "Steeltown", see Hamilton, Ontario. For other uses, see Steel Town.
Not to be confused with Steel City, Steelville, or Steelton.

Steeltown
Studio album by
Big Country
Released19 October 1984
StudioPolar Studios (Stockholm)
RAK Studios (London)
GenreAlternative rock, new wave, Celtic rock
Length47:54
LabelMercury
ProducerSteve Lillywhite
Big Country chronology
The Crossing
(1983) 		Steeltown
(1984) 		The Seer
(1986)
Singles from Steeltown
  1. "East of Eden"
    Released: 21 September 1984
  2. "Where the Rose Is Sown"
    Released: 16 November 1984[1]
  3. "Just a Shadow"
    Released: 11 January 1985[2]

Steeltown is the second studio album by Scottish band Big Country. The album was recorded at ABBA's Polar Studios in Stockholm with Steve Lillywhite producing. It was released on 19 October 1984, in the UK and 29 October 1984, in the United States.[3] It was released on CD only in Germany, as well as remastered and reissued there.

Steeltown is the band's only UK number 1 album, topping the chart for 1 week in October 1984. The title track "Steeltown" was written about the town of Corby, telling how many Scots went to work at the Stewarts & Lloyds steelworks when it opened in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression, but later found themselves unemployed when the steelworks declined in the early 1980s.[4]

The 1996 reissue contains all of the B-sides from the album's single releases as well as the extended version of non-album single "Wonderland".

"East of Eden" was the only Top 20 single from the album, reaching number 17 in the UK Singles Chart.

  1. ^ "Singles". Bigcountryinfo.com.
  2. ^ "Singles". Bigcountryinfo.com.
  3. ^ "October Hot Album Releases". Billboard. Vol. 96, no. 40. 6 October 1984. ISSN 0006-2510. Retrieved 18 September 2011.
  4. ^ Source: Melody Maker, 1984
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