Breaking All the Rules (Peter Frampton album)

Breaking All the Rules
Studio album by Peter Frampton
Released	May 14, 1981
Recorded	November 1979 - June 1981, The Hit Factory, New York Avatar Studios, New York Le Studio, Quebec Sound 80 Studios, Minnesota
Genre	Rock
Length	40:06
Label	A&M
Producer	Peter Frampton, David Kershenbaum, Chris Kimsey, Harvey Goldberg
Peter Frampton chronology
Rise Up (1980) Breaking All the Rules (1981) Art of Control (1982)

Breaking All the Rules is the seventh studio album by Peter Frampton, released in 1981.

Background

The Breaking All the Rules album had featured a raw live in the studio approach like its predecessor Rise Up, which was released to promote Frampton's concert tour in Brazil in 1980. The album had won airplay for its anthemic title track, which was co-written with Procol Harum lyricist Keith Reid.

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Track listing

All tracks written by Peter Frampton except where indicated.

1. "Dig What I Say" - 4:09
2. "I Don't Wanna Let You Go" - 4:18
3. "Rise Up" (Alessi Brothers) - 3:46
4. "Wasting the Night Away" - 4:08
5. "Going to L.A." - 5:54
6. "You Kill Me" - 4:12
7. "Friday on My Mind" (George Young, Harry Vanda) - 4:15
8. "Lost a Part of You" - 3:39
9. "Breaking All the Rules" (Frampton, Keith Reid) - 7:05

Personnel

• Peter Frampton - guitar, keyboards, vocals
• Steve Lukather - guitar
• John Regan - bass guitar
• Arthur Stead - piano, synthesizer, electric piano, organ, fender rhodes
• Jeff Porcaro - drums, percussion