Scandalous is the fourth album by British

United Kingdom

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 soul

Soul music

Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...

/dance

Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing. It can be either a whole musical piece or part of a larger musical arrangement...

 group Imagination

Imagination (band)

Imagination were a three piece British soul and funk band, who came to prominence in the early 1980s. They had chart hits in 28 countries, earning four platinum discs, nine gold discs and more than a dozen silver discs around the world between 1981 and 1983....

, produced by Steve Jolley and Tony Swain

Jolley & Swain

Steve Jolley and Tony Swain were a successful pop musician, songwriting and record production duo in the United Kingdom in the early to mid-1980s, producing some of the top artists and songs of the era....

 and released in 1983.

Scandalous failed to repeat the success of Imagination's previous albums, stalling at #25 in the United Kingdom and not producing a top 20 single. It marked the start of a decline in the group's commercial fortunes; subsequent albums were even less successful. Despite disappointments critics have called the album "A pretty cool dude."

Track listing

All tracks composed by Steve Jolley, Tony Swain, Leee John

Leee John

Leee John of St Lucian descent, is a British musician and actor. He was educated in New York, later studying drama at the Anna Scher Theatre School.-Career:...

and Ashley Ingram

1. "New Dimension" 7:18
2. "State of Love" 4:50
3. "Point of No Return" 5:05
4. "When I See the Fire" 4:40
5. "Shoo Be Doo Da Dabba Doobee" 6:24
6. "Wrong In Love" 4:40
7. "Looking at Midnight" 5:50
8. "The Need to Be Free" 4:56

Singles

• "Looking at Midnight" (UK #29)
• "New Dimension" (UK #56, Germany #61)
• "State of Love" (UK #67, Germany #48)