Wanna Be a Star
Studio album by
Chilliwack
ReleasedSeptember 1981
RecordedWaterstreet Sound, Vancouver
GenreRock
Length39:12
LabelSolid Gold Records (CAN)
Millennium Records (USA)
ProducerBill Henderson and Brian MacLeod
Chilliwack chronology
Breakdown in Paradise
(1979)		 Wanna Be a Star
(1981)		 Opus X
(1982)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Wanna Be a Star is the ninth album by the Canadian rock band Chilliwack, released in September 1981. At this point, the band had collapsed into a trio, without a full-time drummer, but leader Bill Henderson and guitarist/keyboardist/drummer Brian MacLeod had become a powerful songwriting team during the interim. The single release "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)" became the group's first hit since the 1979 collapse of their former label Mushroom Records, reaching #1 in Canada and giving Chilliwack their U.S. Top 40 breakthrough peaking at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100: "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)" also gave Chilliwack their only evident chart item outside North America reaching #57 in Australia with a disproportionately long chart run of 28 weeks. The success of "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)" led to a touring version of Chilliwack re-forming. The album's second single: "I Believe", released in early 1982, was also a Top 10 Canadian hit and returned Chilliwack to the U.S. Top 40 at #33. In November 1982, Wanna Be a Star was certified Platinum (in excess of 100,000 copies sold) in Canada.[2]

Overall the album is something of a concept album about the "rock and roll" lifestyle and the pursuit of fame. The leadoff track "Sign Here" is a reference to Chilliwack's new quest for mainstream success, tempered by their brush with fame on Mushroom. This was the first album they recorded with Solid Gold Records in Canada, a new Toronto-based label.

Track listing

  1. "Sign Here" (Bill Henderson/Brian MacLeod) (2:57)
  2. "So You Wanna Be a Star" (Henderson/MacLeod) (4:29)
  3. "Tell It to the Telephone" (Henderson) (3:14)
  4. "Too Many Enemies" (Henderson/MacLeod) (4:39)
  5. "Living In Stereo" (4:49) (Henderson)
  6. "Mr. Rock" (3:51) (Henderson)
  7. "My Girl (Gone, Gone, Gone)" (Henderson/MacLeod) (4:16)
  8. "(Don't Wanna) Live for a Living" (MacLeod) (3:22)
  9. "Walk On" (Henderson) (3:38)
  10. "I Believe" (Henderson) (3:57)

Musicians

References

  1. ↑ Wanna Be a Star at AllMusic
  2. ↑ "Gold/Platinum". 3 January 2019.
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