Valley of the Dolls was Generation X

Generation X (band)

Generation X was a British punk rock band, formed on 21 November 1976 by Billy Idol, Tony James and John Towe.-History:...

's 1979 second album and was produced by Ian Hunter

Ian Hunter (singer)

Ian Hunter Patterson is an English singer-songwriter. He was the lead singer of the English rock band Mott the Hoople from its inception in 1969 to its dissolution in 1974, and he again fronted them at the time of their 2009 reunion. Hunter was a musician and songwriter before Mott The Hoople, and...

. The album contained the UK

United Kingdom

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 hit singles: "King Rocker", which reached No. 11 in the charts in January 1979, the title track "Valley of the Dolls", which made No. 23 in April of the same year and "Friday's Angels", which got to No. 62 in June 1979. The album is only indirectly related to the novel

Valley of the Dolls

Valley of the Dolls is a novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann, published in 1966. The "dolls" within the title is a slang term for downers, barbiturates used as sleep aids....

 and film

Valley of the Dolls

Valley of the Dolls is a novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann, published in 1966. The "dolls" within the title is a slang term for downers, barbiturates used as sleep aids....

 of this name, and the title cut is an original song.

Side 1

1. "Running with the Boss Sound" (Idol, James, Bob "Derwood" Andrews
   Bob Andrews (Generation X)
   Bob "Derwood" Andrews is an English guitarist, and former member of the punk rock band, Generation X....
   
   )
2. "Night of the Cadillacs"
3. "Paradise West"
4. "Friday's Angels"
5. "King Rocker"

Side 2

1. "Valley of the Dolls"
2. "English Dream"
3. "Love Like Fire"
4. "The Prime of Kenny Silvers (Part One)"
5. "The Prime of Kenny Silvers (Part Two)"

2002 CD bonus tracks

11. "Gimme Some Truth
    Gimme Some Truth
    "Gimme Some Truth" is a protest song written and performed by John Lennon from his 1971 album Imagine.Like several songs on the album, such as the title track "Imagine", "Gimme Some Truth" has blatant political references emerging from the time it was written, during the latter years of the Vietnam...
    
    " (John Lennon
    John Lennon
    John Winston Lennon, MBE was an English musician and singer-songwriter who rose to worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music...
    
    )
    
12. "Shakin' All Over
    Shakin' All Over
    "Shakin' All Over" is a rock and roll song originally performed by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. It was written by frontman Johnny Kidd and reached #1 in the United Kingdom in August 1960...
    
    " (Johnny Kidd
    Frederick Heath
    Johnny Kidd was an English singer and songwriter, the front man for the rock band Johnny Kidd and the Pirates. He was one of the few pre-Beatles British rock and rollers to achieve worldwide fame....
    
    )
    

Personnel

• Billy Idol
  Billy Idol
  William Michael Albert Broad , better known by his stage name Billy Idol, is an English rock musician. A member of the Bromley Contingent of Sex Pistols fans, Idol first achieved fame in the punk rock era as a member of the band Generation X...
  
   − vocals
• Tony James
  Tony James
  Tony James is a British musician, best known as a bassist of Generation X and Sigue Sigue Sputnik.- Career :He was originally a member of the punk band London SS, along with Brian James, , and Mick Jones plus Terry Chimes .Later, James joined the early punk band Chelsea...
  
   − bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  
• Bob "Derwood" Andrews
  Bob Andrews (Generation X)
  Bob "Derwood" Andrews is an English guitarist, and former member of the punk rock band, Generation X....
  
   − guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  
• Mark Laff
  Mark Laff
  Mark Laff is an English drummer, and former member of punk rock bands Subway Sect and Generation X.Laff and guitarist Bob Andrews left Generation X in December 1980, to form the band Empire, along with bassist Simon Bernal, releasing one commercially unsuccessful album which gradually became a cult...
  
   − drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....