Intervention Records - IR-020- 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue

Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

Pressed at RTI - Limited Edition -  Restored Cover Art  

AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only, from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Kevin Gray’s mastering brings out details that help make the album richer, and returning to it reminded me that Billy Squier was a better-than-average songwriter. “Lonely Is the Night” is the best Led Zep knockoff I’ve ever heard, and “Whadda You Want from Me” is prime blues- rock.  don’t know if I’d call the album a neglected ’80s classic, but the more I play it -- especially in this excellently mastered, beautifully packaged edition -- the more I lean in that direction.- Sound 4/5 5Soundstage record of the month sept 2018

• Artist-Approved Edition!
100% Analog Mastering From The Original Master Tapes!
• Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
• Ultra-Quiet 180-Gram Vinyl Pressed At RTI
• Beautifully Restored Single Gatefold Jacket by Stoughton 

Triple-Platinum Selling All-Time Great!  
Peaked at #5 and Remained A Staple on Billboard Charts for Over Two Years! 

Intervention Records is thrilled to announce the next LP in its (Re)Discover Series, an Artist-Approved Edition of Billy Squier's 1981 rock anthem, Don't Say No. The classic rock staple

After turning some heads with his debut, Billy Squier truly arrived with 1981's Don't Say No, which kicks off in spectacular fashion with the triple opening salvo of "In the Dark," "The Stroke," and "My Kinda Lover" -- all of which become staples at rock radio. The album is a near-perfect example of early-'80s melodic hard rock, and even less enduring (but hardly inferior rockers) such as "You Know What I Like" and "Lonely Is the Night" keep up the intensity. And Squier also finds time for the occasional ballad, like the disarmingly gentle "Nobody Knows." Completists may want to review his mid-'90s double-disc anthology, but as far as studio albums are concerned, Don't Say No is undoubtedly his best.

Don't Say No catapulted Squier's career to new heights. His live shows became arena rock sensations and four tracks from this album are classic rock radio staples in heavy rotation today: "In the Dark," "The Stroke," "My Kind of Lover" and "Lonely is the Night."

Don't Say No is 100% Analog Mastered by Kevin Gray at CoHEARent Audio from the original master tapes! Gray's remastering is revelatory in opening the soundstage up to massive proportions while providing superior 3D imaging and musical microdetail. 
 

Everyone loves an overnight success story, but fame and fortune far more often follow years of hard work — as they did for Billy Squier after the release of his second solo album, Don't Say No.
Released in April 1981, Don't Say No arrived at a moment when few people had ever heard of Squier, but served as the culmination of years spent discovering and refining his sound. He'd released his solo debut, The Tale of the Tape, less than a year before — and although the record failed to catch hold on the pop charts, it made inroads at rock radio with a handful of tracks.
Not content to take a slow ride to the top, Squier kept his ear to the airwaves while working on the material that made up Don't Say No. Though he'd never admit to making outright concessions in pursuit of a hit — and his records were already pretty radio-friendly to begin with — he set about moving any inessential parts from his arrangements, further honing a sound whose big guitars and bigger beats were perfectly in tune with the AOR of the early '80s.
To help with this streamlining, Squier hooked up with Reinhold Mack, a veteran engineer and producer whose credits included records for Electric Light Orchestra, Deep Purple and Queen. It was the latter band that connected the two, as Squier had originally sought out Queen guitarist Brian May to produce The Tale of the Tape. Kept from the project by a scheduling conflict, May recommended Mack, and he and Squier hit it off.
Aside from the right combination of people behind the scenes, Squier also brought some of his best material to the Don't Say No sessions. The 10-track record, entirely self-penned, boasted a slew of radio-ready cuts — including "In the Dark," "Lonely Is the Night," "My Kinda Lover" and "The Stroke," all of which broke the Top 40 at rock radio. On pop stations, meanwhile, Squier rocketed to household-name status before the year was out, largely on the strength of "The Stroke" (which hit No. 17) and "In the Dark" (No. 35). Before it was through, Don't Say No would go on to sell more than three million copies.

For Squier, the record's success marked an important victory in a war he'd been fighting for a long time. "I went into Don't Say No with a lot of confidence and I did feel that it was in a sense, my time," he told Addicted to Vinyl. "It was my time if I chose to seize it. You know, that I did have people paying attention, that people would be looking for my next record to some degree and that if I delivered, I really had a chance of making a big impact. When it was done, before it came out, I felt that this was the record that I had been spending my whole career to this point getting ready to make. I was totally happy with it."
Don't Say No launched Squier's solo career into the stratosphere, and for a brief period, it looked like he had a long line of multi-platinum records in his future. Things didn't work out that way, and by the end of the '90s, he'd pretty much turned his back on the music industry. But with this album, he took his best shot at the dream he'd worked hard to achieve — and it worked.
"I remember saying to people before it came out ... I said 'If this record isn't successful, I'm out,' Squier laughed in his Addicted to Vinyl interview. "Fortunately, I didn't have to do that."

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