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Heads or Tales

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Track listing
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| name = Heads Or Tales
| type = studio
| artist = Saga
| cover = Heads_or_tales.jpg
| alt =
| released = September 1983
| recorded = The Farmyard, Little Chalfont, Buckinghamshire, England
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Progressive rock, new wave
| length = 40:23
| label = Portrait, Maze
| producer = Rupert Hine
| prev_title = In Transit
| prev_year = 1982
| next_title = Behaviour
| next_year = 1985
}}{{Album ratings
| rev1 = Allmusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|4|5}} ^[1]
}}

Heads Or Tales is the fifth studio album by the Canadian progressive rock band Saga and was originally released in 1983. The album was the second of the band's to be produced by Rupert Hine. Although it did not receive the commercial success of the previous collaboration between the band and Hine, both "The Flyer" and "Cat Walk" became respectable radio hits for the band with the album eventually securing gold status in Canada (50,000) and Germany (250,000). A third single from the album, "Scratching the Surface", making a regular appearance in the band's concert line-up during the late-1990s and 2000s as a piano solo played by singer Jim Gilmour during a break by the other band members. The song reached #45 in the Canadian Singles charts, April 1984.

Track listing

{{Track listing
| headline = Side One
| title1 = The Flyer
| lyrics1 = Jim Crichton, Michael Sadler
| length1 = 3:37
| title2 = Cat Walk
| lyrics2 = J. Crichton, Jim Gilmour, Ian Crichton
| length2 = 4:24
| title3 = The Sound of Strangers
| lyrics3 = Sadler, J. Crichton, Gilmour, I. Crichton, Steve Negus
| length3 = 4:09
| title4 = The Writing
| lyrics4 = J. Crichton, Sadler
| length4 = 4:14
| title5 = Intermission
| lyrics5 = Sadler, J. Crichton, I. Crichton
| length5 = 5:28
}}{{Track listing
| headline = Side Two
| title6 = Social Orphan
| lyrics6 = Sadler, J. Crichton
| length6 = 3:24
| title7 = The Vendetta (Still Helpless)
| lyrics7 = Sadler, J. Crichton, Gilmour, I. Crichton
| length7 = 3:55
| title8 = Scratching the Surface
| lyrics8 = Gilmour, J. Crichton
| length8 = 5:26
| title9 = The Pitchman
| lyrics9 = J. Crichton, Sadler, I. Crichton, Gilmour, Negus
| length9 = 5:46
}}{{Track listing
| headline = Bonus track
| collapsed = yes
| title1 = Cat Walk
| note1 = Unabridged
| length1 = 7:44
}}

Personnel

Saga:^[2]

Michael Sadler{{snd}}lead vocals (all but 8), keyboards
Ian Crichton{{snd}}guitar
Jim Gilmour{{snd}}lead keyboards, backing and lead (8) vocals, sax
Jim Crichton{{snd}}bass guitar, keyboards
Steve Negus{{snd}}drums, percussion, electronic percussion

Production:^[2]

Judith Salavetz, Spencer Drate{{snd}}art direction, design
Stephen Durke{{snd}}front and back illustrations artwork
Andrew Scarth{{snd}}assistant engineer
Stephen W Tayler{{snd}}recording and mixing engineer
Larry Williams{{snd}}inner sleeve photography
Producer{{snd}}Rupert Hine

References

1. ^{{cite web |url={{Allmusic|class=album|id=r48552|pure_url=yes}} |title=allmusic ((( Heads or Tales > Overview ))) |publisher=allmusic.com |accessdate=2010-08-21 }}
2. ^¹{{cite web |url=http://www.discogs.com/Saga-Heads-Or-Tales/release/1537671 |title=Saga (3) – Heads Or Tales (Vinyl, LP, Album) at Discogs |publisher=www.discogs.com |accessdate=2010-08-21 }}

4 : 1983 albums|Saga (band) albums|Albums produced by Rupert Hine|Portrait Records albums

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