- pop
- 50 min
- 10 tracks
- Columbia
Chinese Wall is the third solo studio album by American singer Philip Bailey, released on the Columbia Records label in October 1984. The album reached number 22 on the Billboard 200 and number 10 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts respectively. The album was Grammy nominated in the category of Best R&B Vocal Performance, Male. Chinese Wall has also been certified gold in the US by the RIAA.
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Character
Grave, spare, character-led and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
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- AllMusic4/5 ★
- Christgau's Record GuideB+
- Rolling Stone3/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Photogenic Memory5:26
- 2I Go Crazy4:50
- 3Walking on the Chinese Wall5:09
- 4For Every Heart That's Been Broken4:16
- 5Go4:30
- 6Easy Lover5:06
- 7Show You the Way to Love4:43
- 8Time Is a Woman4:32
- 9Woman5:06
- 10Children of the Ghetto6:50
10 tracks, 50 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Philip Bailey
- Label
- Columbia
- Released
- 1984
- Type
- Album
- Format
- Vinyl
- Country
- US
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