Breaking All the Rules (Peter Frampton album)

Breaking All the Rules featured a raw live in the studio approach like its 1980 predecessor Rise Up, which was a Brazilian LP release to promote Peter Frampton's concert tour in Brazil in 1980. Rise Up in fact served as a proto-version of Breaking All the Rules, as the latter album features re-recordings of nearly all tracks on Rise Up, including its title track, which features an almost entirely different lineup of musicians; only Frampton and bassist John Regan appeared on both versions of "Rise Up". Curiously, the Brazilian version of Breaking All the Rules, while lacking the re-recorded versions save for the title track, features three songs not included anywhere else (a cover of "Somebody's Been Sleeping" and two originals, "Night Town" and the instrumental "Los Anõs Locos") and totally different sequencing.

The album had won airplay for its anthemic title track, which was co-written with Procol Harum lyricist Keith Reid. The album's cover was photographed at 350 W 23rd Street, Chelsea, New York City.^[4] The album features Steve Lukather and Jeff Porcaro of Toto.

All tracks written by Peter Frampton except where indicated.

1. "Dig What I Say" – 4:13
2. "I Don't Wanna Let You Go" – 4:22
3. "Rise Up" (Alessi Brothers) – 3:46
4. "Wasting the Night Away" – 4:13
5. "Going to L.A." – 6:05
6. "You Kill Me" – 4:18
7. "Friday on My Mind" (George Young, Harry Vanda) – 4:18
8. "Lost a Part of You" – 3:43
9. "Breaking All the Rules" (Frampton, Keith Reid) – 7:17