Name: RATT: Invasion Of Your Privacy LP Signed Autographed (in person) 1985. Best career album, 10 amazing songs. Check videos "Lay It Down", "You're in Love", "What You Give Is What You Get" + audio + album review videos
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Singles:
“Lay It Down”
“You’re in Love”
“What You Give Is What You Get”

Ratt are an American hard rocking band, and were instrumental in the formation of the early ’80s Los Angeles glam metal scene, often referred to as the ‘Sunset Strip’ sound. Like their friendly rivals Mötley Crüe, Ratt’s sound fused pop hooks with the metal ethos along with big hair, and over the top on-stage performances and (on- and off-stage) behaviour. They went from “sleeping on the floor of a converted garage in Los Angeles, their pillows nestled against their Marshall amps” to massive success with their debut album “Out of the Cellar” and that they we’re finally “out of the cellar and into your living rooms”. Ratt cannot be exterminated.

Invasion of Your Privacy is the third album by American heavy metal band Ratt. It was released in 1985 and featured the singles “Lay It Down”, “You’re in Love” and “What You Give Is What You Get”. Invasion of Your Privacy was released in 1985, peaked at Number 7 and went double platinum. Ratt, a heavy metal band from the 1980s and best known for songs such as “Round and Round,” “Wanted Man,” and “Lay It Down”, was very influential in the formation of Los Angeles hard rock and glam metal scene during the early 1980s. The album cover shows a voyeuristic view of a beautiful girl undressing in her bedroom which perfectly supports the album’s title. The record album’s sexual lyrics and the album cover photograph drew the attention of the Parents Music Resource Center,”PMRC”, who wanted to put a parental advisory label on the record album. The girl on the album cover is Playboy model Marianne Gravatte, who also appeared in the “Lay It Down” music video.

…… 5.0 out of 5 stars Best Glam Album ever!
Top 80s style. All ten tracks on this are glam rock perfection. This one is full of hard rocking but sleazy, glammed up songs. They’ve just got quality to their hooks, song writing – Crosby was a great talent. Pearcy is a good singer within this style too. Invasion of your privacy just completely holds up today! This has got that 1985 sound all-over it.

Release date: 13 June 1985
Producer: Beau Hill
Label: Atlantic Records
Genres: Heavy metal, Hard rock, Glam metal

Ratt ‎– Invasion Of Your Privacy
Label: Atlantic ‎– 781 257-1
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: Europe
Released: 1985
Genre: Heavy Metal, Glam
Tracklist
A1 You’re In Love 3:12
A2 Never Use Love 3:54
A3 Lay It Down 3:23
A4 Give It All 3:19
A5 Closer To My Heart 4:30
B1 Between The Eyes 3:54
B2 What You Give Is What You Get 3:47
B3 Got Me On The Line 3:04
B4 You Should Know By Now 3:29
B5 Dangerous But Worth The Risk 3:30

Recorded At – Rumbo Recorders
Recorded At – Atlantic Studios
Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Phonographic Copyright (p) – WEA International Inc.
Copyright (c) – Atlantic Recording Corporation
Copyright (c) – WEA International Inc.
Printed By – Record Service GmbH
Made By – WEA Musik GmbH
Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation
Pressed By – Record Service Alsdorf

Arranged By – Ratt
Bass Guitar, Backing Vocals – Juan Croucier
Drums, Percussion – Bobby (Blotz) Blotzer*
Engineer – Beau Hill, Jim Faraci, Stephen Benben
Guitar, Backing Vocals – Robbin Crosby, Warren De Martini*
Lead Vocals – Stephen Pearcy
Other [Cover Model] – Marianne Gravatte

Marianne Gravatte was Playmate of the Month for the October 1982 Playboy magazine. She was also chosen the 1983 Playmate of the Year. She was featured again in “Playmate Revisited” in April 1994.
Producer – Beau Hill
Written-By – Croucier* (tracks: A1, A3, B2, B4, B5), Crosby* (tracks: A3 to A5, B3, B4), Pearcy* (tracks: A1 to B1, B3 to B5), De Martini* (tracks: A3, B1, B5)

Came with printed inner sleeve.
Made in Germany.
℗+© 1985 Atlantic Recording Corporation for the U.S. & WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.

Best Ratt album IMHO. Of course any one can disagree. But I think their best is here.

Catchy riffs, good vocals, simple structures, massively above your usual run-of-the mill hair metal from the eighties.

“To this day, I still think that Warren DeMartini’s opening riff of “Lay It Down” is one of the greatest in rock. Hyperbole? Maybe. But also true. The riff announces the song with a power and urgency that most songs can only dream of achieving.

Of course, 1985 came and went – but Ratt’s Invasion of Your Privacy was always nearby. We often associate music with moments in our lives. For instance, I remember when I got my license in 1986, the first thing I did was slide in the Invasion cassette, turn it up, and drive down Woodward Avenue.

I remember repeatedly listening to “You’re In Love” on my Walkman as I lay awake in the bottom of my bunk bed wondering how they had created the lightning effect leading into the chorus. I remember spending hours at my friend’s house (who had cable television) waiting for the “Lay It Down” video to come on MTV. I remember being in my basement screaming the chorus of “You Should Know By Now” and wondering if I was ever going to be as cool as Stephen Pearcy.

In 1985, I was far away from the world that Ratt painted in their music, but they brought it to me. Thirty years later, it still does, though now it also takes me back to that time when a great riff and a car were all I needed to be happy. Still, to this day, when I hear the opening riff of “Lay It Down,” I immediately stop what I’m doing and prepare myself for the beautiful crush that’s coming.

I request “Lay It Down” whenever I’m asked about music to accompany me during a guest appearance on a show or at an event. I even have it as a ring tone. And every time I hear it, I’m back driving down Woodward Avenue”. Panayotis Alexander “Alexi” Lalas (is an American retired soccer player who played mostly as a defender. Lalas is best known for his participation with the United States men’s national soccer team in the 1994 FIFA World Cup, where he was a standout player on the team with his distinctive long beard and hair).