Siver Cloud, Los Angeles, California and Granny's, Reno, Nevada ("Shoot All the Clowns")
Genre
Hard rock
heavy metal
Length
51:08
Label
EMI (Europe) Mercury (US)
Producer
Shay Baby
Bruce Dickinson chronology
Tattooed Millionaire (1990)
Balls to Picasso (1994)
Alive in Studio A (1995)
Singles from Balls to Picasso
"Tears of the Dragon" Released: 16 May 1994[2]
"Shoot All the Clowns" Released: August 1994
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source
Rating
AllMusic
[3]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal
6/10[4]
Rock Hard
9.0/10[5]
Balls to Picasso is the second solo album by Iron Maiden vocalist Bruce Dickinson, released in 1994. It is the first album in Dickinson's solo career that was released after he had officially left Iron Maiden (although he rejoined again in 1999).
This record marked the beginning of Dickinson's collaborations with guitarist Roy Z, who would work on many of Dickinson's later albums including Accident of Birth, The Chemical Wedding and Tyranny of Souls. Stylistically it departs from Tattooed Millionaire but is still more traditional-sounding than the follow-up album Skunkworks released in 1996. Later, Dickinson said that he and Roy Z were talked into making the album less heavy than it should have been.[6]
^Sillitoe, Sue (4 June 1994). "Ad Focus" (PDF). Music Week. p. 8. Retrieved 18 November 2023 – via World Radio History.
^ abAlexander, Phil (26 March 1994). "Bruce: Balls to the Wall!". Kerrang!. Archived from the original on 24 February 2002. Retrieved 18 November 2023 – via screamforme.com.
^Franck, John. "Bruce Dickinson - Balls to Picasso review". AllMusic. All Media Network. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
^Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9.
^Kühnemund, Götz (27 May 1994). "Review Dynamit : Bruce Dickinson - Balls to Picasso". Rock Hard (in German). No. 85. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
^"Interview". Official Bruce Dickinson Website. Archived from the original on 18 October 2006. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
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