The band’s debut album, Raintown , produced by Jon Kelly was released in 1987. It spawned the singles ” Dignity “, ” Chocolate Girl ” and ” Loaded “. The city that the album’s title refers to is Glasgow and the cover art of the album is a photograph (by the Scottish-Italian photographer Oscar Marzaroli ) of the River Clyde ‘s docks taken from Kelvingrove Park . It proved a commercial success and has to date sold around a million copies, peaking in the UK Albums Chart at no. 14 and remaining in that chart for a year and a half. On 27 February 2006, Raintown was reissued as part of Columbia’s Legacy Edition series. The reissue was expanded to two CDs, the first of which featured the original 11 track album. The second CD featured alternate cuts of all 11 album tracks, as well as the two original CD bonus tracks “Riches” and “Kings of the Western World”. The new edition did not include the varied bonus cuts (remixes and b-sides) that were found on the singles from the album.
Release of debut album Raintown
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