You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic


You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic is the fourth solo album by Ian Hunter. The album featured members of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band as the backing band. Allmusic considers the album to be Hunter's best.
Hunter says that the title had been spotted on a toilet wall by co-producer Mick Ronson which he had planned for one of his solo albums. Hunter loved the title so much that he offered Ronson co-writing credit on the first single "Just Another Night" in exchange for the use of the title for the album. "Just Another Night" reached the Billboard Hot 100 No. 68. The album became one of Hunter's biggest sellers at the time. Later, singer Barry Manilow covered the song "Ships" for his album One Voice which became a top-ten hit.
In 2009 EMI released a 30th-anniversary reissue of the album remastered with five bonus tracks on the first disc of outtakes and a second disc of live tracks recorded on the tour to support the album but previously unreleased. The reissue also came with a deluxe booklet discussing the making the album along with vintage and new interviews with Hunter.
The song "Cleveland Rocks" later became a hit when The Presidents of the United States of America re-recorded the song as the theme song to The Drew Carey Show in 1997, raising Hunter's profile.

Track listing

All tracks written by Ian Hunter except where noted.
;Side one
  1. "Just Another Night" – 4:36
  2. "Wild East" – 3:58
  3. "Cleveland Rocks" – 3:48
  4. "Ships" – 4:11
  5. "When the Daylight Comes" – 4:27
;Side two
  1. "Life After Death" – 3:49
  2. "Standin' in My Light" – 4:35
  3. "Bastard" – 6:37
  4. "The Outsider" – 5:57

    Deluxe Edition track listing

;Disc 1
  1. "Just Another Night"
  2. "Wild East"
  3. "Cleveland Rocks"
  4. "Ships"
  5. "When the Daylight Comes"
  6. "Life After Death"
  7. "Standin' in My Light"
  8. "Bastard"
  9. "The Outsider"
  10. "Don't Let Go"
  11. "Ships"
  12. "When The Daylight Comes"
  13. "Just Another Night"
  14. "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"

;Disc 2
  1. "F.B.I." – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79
  2. "Once Bitten Twice Shy" – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79
  3. "Life After Death" – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79
  4. "Sons and Daughters" – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79
  5. "Laugh at Me" – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79
  6. "Just Another Night" – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79
  7. "One of the Boys" – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79
  8. "Letter to Brittania from Union Jack" – Live in Berkeley 7/7/79
  9. "Bastard" – Live in Berkeley 7/7/79
  10. "All the Way from Memphis" – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79
  11. "Cleveland Rocks" – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79
  12. "All the Young Dudes" – Live at the Hammersmith Odeon 22/11/79
  13. "When the Daylight Comes" – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79
  14. "Sweet Angeline" – Live in Cleveland 18/6/79

    Personnel