China Crisis - Working With Fire & Steel

Digitally remastered and expanded three CD edition of the Liverpool band's 1983 album. The bonus CDs includes non-album tracks, remixes, radio sessions and more. Working with Fire and Steel - Possible Pop Songs Volume Two is the second studio album by China Crisis. The album spent 16 weeks on the UK Albums Chart, peaking at #20 in February 1984. It includes the song "Wishful Thinking", which was a top 10 hit on the singles chart. Also includes the U.S. radio hit "Working With Fire & Steel". China Crisis was formed in 1979 in Kirkby, near Liverpool, Merseysidewith a core of vocalist/keyboardist Gary Daly and guitarist Eddie Lundon. They were part of a wave of new Liverpool acts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, led by OMD and also including Echo and the Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, A Flock of Seagulls and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. China Crisis had moderate success in the United Kingdom in the 1980s with five Top 40 singles and three Top 40 albums. The band also achieved a modest level of commercial success in Western Europe and Australia, and some minor chart successes in the Americas.