Production

• Produced By Daryl Hall, Dave Stewart & T-Bone Wolk; "What's Gonna Happen To Us" produced by Daryl Hall
• Recorded between October 1985 and May 1986
• Engineer at Studio de la Grande in Armee, Paris, France: Manu Guiot; assisted by Frederick & Serge
• Engineer at The Church in Crouch End, London, England: Jon Bavin; assisted by Stephen Gallifent
• Engineer at Marcus Studios, London: Manu Guiot; assisted by Dick Beetham & Tim Burrell
• Engineers at Right Track Studios, New York City
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  : Frank Filipetti & Manu Guiot; assisted by Noah Baron & Paul Hamingson
• Engineer at Electric Lady Studio, New York City: Manu Guiot; assisted by Ken Steiger
• Mixed By Bob Clearmountain
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   at Electric Lady Studio, except "For You": mixed by Frank Filipetti at Electric Lady; Filipetti was assisted by Ken Steiger
• Mastered By Bob Ludwig
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Personnel

• Daryl Hall: Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Mandolin, Drum Programming
• Additional Backing Vocals: Kate St. John & June Montana (on "Dreamtime"), Bob Geldof
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   (on "Next Step" & "Only A Vision") and Joni Mitchell
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   (on "Right As Rain")
• Robbie McIntosh
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   (lead guitar on "Someone Like You"), Ric Morcombe, G.E. Smith, Jamie West-Oram: Guitars
• Dave Stewart
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  : Guitars (lead on "Dreamtime"), Drum Programming
• Robby Kilgore, Mike Klvana, Patrick Seymour: Keyboards (Klvana also handled Synclavier
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   programming, while Seymour worked in tandem with Stephen Gillifant on Emulator II sampling)
• Tom T-Bone Wolk: Guitars, Bass, Mandolin
• Drums: Tony Beard
• Percussion: Michel De La Porte
• Drum Programming: Jimmy Bralower, Manu Guiot, Steve Harvey, Bob Riley
• Saxophone
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  : Lenny Pickett, Dick Morrissey
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   (solo on "I Wasn't Born Yesterday")
• Strings on "Dreamtime" arranged & conducted by Michael Kamen
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