JAGGED EDGE: Fuel for your soul LP Members of Bam Bam Boys, Tokyo Blade, Shogun, Bruce Dickinson, Skin, Skintrade. CHECK VIDEOS

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GATEFOLD LP. Track listing
1. Liar
2. Out In The Cold
3. You Don’t Love Me
4. Hell Ain’t A Long Way
5. Smooth Operator
6. Sweet Lorraine
7. Fuel For Your Soul
8. Law Of The Land
9. Loving You Too Long
10. All Through The Night

Details
Playing time: 48 min.
Producer: Jeff Glixman
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Matt Alfonzetti (vocals), Myke Gray (guitar), Andy Robbins (bass, vocals) and Fabio Del Rio (drums).

An excellent melodic rock band, Jagged Edge U.K. fit in perfectly alongside other long forgotten classy rockers such as Beggars & Thieves, Dirty White Boy and Baton Rouge.
Early incarnations of the band had a revolving door membership, with guitarist Myke Gray being the only mainstay. Demos were recorded, at different times, with a female vocalist and production by Whitesnake Neil Murray. The classic line-up would form in 1989 around Gray, Matt Alfonzetti (vocals, ex-Bam Bam Boys), Andy Robbins (bass, ex-Tokyo Blade and Shogun) and Fabio Del Rio (drums).
The band signed with Sanctuary management (which also looked after the affairs of Iron Maiden) and a record deal with Polydor. The debut EP Trouble arrived in early 1990, but it would be the full-length Fuel For Your Soul that really showed what Jagged Edge U.K. was capable of. The Sanctuary connection led to Del Rio playing drums on Bruce Dickinson solo album Tattooed Millionaire. The band would also tour behind Dickinson, as well as Thunder and David Lee Roth in 1990/91. But the band was promptly dropped by Polydor and split apart soon after.
Gray and Robbins resurfaced in the even more popular Skin, while Matti Alfonzetti joined the heavy Skintrade before returning with a solo band and then hooking up with Damned Nation.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
If you’re in your mid 30 and yearn for the days of 80 rock and the genre defining lyrics about loves lost, pastures new, distant dreams, fasts cars and all that…then this could be the long lost soundtrack to your youth. It criminal that Jagged Edge only ever released the one full length album, but anyone who remembers bands such as Winger, Firehouse or Diving for Pearls with fondness will love this. London is a little short of the long and winding roads required to listen to this in all its glory; but songs such as Out in the Cold, Loving you too Long and the peerless Fuel for your Soul make me contemplate moving house to Route 66. Driving rock with a touch of class, hair metal with craft, stadium sized songs played by a band who never made the arenas that their music merited or that their inferior peers often graced. In spite of this, their LP sits proudly in a collection of plentiful albums in my living room…and none other has stood the test of time better than this.
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5.0 out of 5 stars. let’s rock
hair and loud rock music at its best. turn it up to eleven and enjoy a sing along of most tracks enjoy
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent american stadium rock
I bought this album as i am a fan of the bands guitarist myke gray who is now in skin. Its excellent american sounding stadium rock. If you like bands like thunder, whitesnake and def leppard you will love this. Excellent musicians and songwriting why this album never made it big beats me
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5.0 out of 5 stars fuel indeed
I saw this band on the tour of this release in the 80 at the marque club in Charring cross road, and believe me it was one of the most sweaty things i have witnessed, i remember it to be a great show very very loud,and im sure they had piro in there which would never happen now.but if you are looking for some honest aor rock,this is it. DEFINITELY FUEL FOR YOUR SOUL
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great LP. I’ve got a vinyl copy of this and it is classic 80 rock at its best. They don’t make em like this any more. Great LP.

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somewhere between the Hollywood hair metal sound and the more polished European melodic rock sound. Think King Kobra meets Bonfire, but with vocals similar to Ken Tamplin (of Shout). It’s fun stuff, even if it’s not terribly original.

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great mid-tempo melodic rock, Matt’s voice reminds me of Ken Tamplin of Shout.

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EXCELLENT HARD ROCK. GREAT VOICE AND INCREDIBLE COVER OF GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY.

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A good hard rock LP. Strong vocals, nice licks.

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Super LP from one of the greatest rock bands in the business.There is not one bad song on this. Get it if you can.

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Killer band that should have been in the vein of Whitesnake. If you don’t know or haven’t heard these guys, you gotta give em’ a whirl. Top notch 80’s metal.

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Man this short album absolutely rocks. This thing kicks form start to finish. It is too bad they had such a short lived career. One of my favorites to this day. This is classic hair metal Whitesanke meets Winger type sound. This is a must have disc.

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This blew my mind off!!!..what a great lp.92/100

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By the way the comparisons with Whitesnake in sound and voice (Matti is surely a David Coverdale’s influenced singer)and also the Ken Tamplin comparison are ok…this is what all is about but of course Jagged Edge has their own personality as band…

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Jagged Edge, also known as Jagged Edge UK in the United States, were a glam metal/rock band formed in London in 1987 by Myke Gray, former guitarist of the band Dorian Gray and briefly of UFO. The band went through numerous line-up changes before a somewhat stable line-up emerged. This line-up consisted of Gray, the former Chinatown, Persian Risk and Bronz rhythm section of bassist Billy Kulke (Current Letz Zep frontman), and later Di´Anno/Killers drummer Steve Hopgood along with ex-Baby Tuckoo and Accept vocalist Rob Armitage. The band toured with Ozzy Osbourne in the UK during June and July 1988.

However, this line-up split before the band was signed to Polydor Records, and the band´s first EP, as well as the album Fuel for Your Soul, was recorded by the 1989 line-up of Gray, Swedish vocalist Matt Alfonzetti (ex-Bam Bam Boys), bassist Andy Robbins (ex-Tokyo Blade and Shogun), and Italian drummer Fabio Del Rio (who, incidentally, was a member of UFO shortly after Gray´s brief tenure). The line-up also included keyboardist Dave Rosingana who performed with Flashpoint (another rock band not the Miami jazz ensemble).

After touring for the album, Polydor dropped the band, which then split up, and the members moved on to other projects. They played their last show in Dudley on 14 July 1991

1989 – 1990	Matti Alfonzetti – Vocals (Talisman, Skintrade) Myke Gray – Guitar Andy Robbins – Bass (Skin, Tokyo Blade) Fabio Del Rio – Drums (Bruce Dickinson)	“Trouble”, “Fuel for Your Soul” era