Naked (Blue Pearl album)

Naked is the only studio album by English electronic music group Blue Pearl, released in 1990 on the Big Life record label. The album includes Blue Pearl's biggest hit single "Naked in the Rain" (UK No. 4) and the follow-up single "Little Brother" (UK No. 31).^[3] It also includes a cover of "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush.

Naked
Studio album by Blue Pearl
Released	1990
Label	Big Life
Producer	Youth Howard Gray

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
NME	3/10[2]

Track listing

All tracks written by Durga McBroom, except where noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Naked in the Rain"	McBroom Youth	4:11
2.	"Down to You"	McBroom Youth	4:13
3.	"Chemical Thing"		5:12
4.	"I Never Knew"		4:35
5.	"Running Up That Hill"	Kate Bush	4:53
6.	"Little Brother"	McBroom Guy Pratt Youth	5:21
7.	"Alive"	McBroom Pratt Youth	6:27
8.	"Rollover"		5:16
9.	"Without Love"		4:51
10.	"Over You"		4:01
11.	"Chemical Thing" (Ambient Mix)		5:10
12.	"Rollover" (Acapella)		4:30

Personnel

Blue Pearl

• Durga McBroom – keyboards, vocals
• Youth – drum programming, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, producer

with:

• Gary Barnacle – saxophone
• Michael Bigwood – mixing
• Stephen Chase – mixing
• Marius de Vries – mixing
• Fred Defaye – mixing
• Andy Falconer – engineer
• Adam Fuest – engineer, mixing
• David Gilmour – guitar
• Howard Gray – mixing, producer
• Trevor Gray – keyboards, producer, programming
• Sarah Gregory – artwork, illustrations
• Mike Jarratt – engineer
• Simon "The Funky Ginger" Law – piano
• Pete Lorimer – engineer
• Ian McKell – photography
• Mark O'Donoughue – engineer
• Tim Parry – executive producer
• Guy Pratt – bass guitar
• Tim Renwick – guitar
• Steve Sidelnyk – mixing
• Jazz Summers – executive producer
• Thrash – engineer
• Mark "Tufty" Evans – engineer
• Joel "Tyrrell" LeBlanc – engineer
• Gary Wallis – percussion
• Dave Williams – guitar
• Gavyn Wright – string arrangements
• Richard Wright – keyboards

Charts

Chart (1990)	Peak position
UK Albums (OCC)[4]	58