Going Deaf for a Living

Going Deaf for a Living
Studio album by Fischer-Z
Released	May 1980
Studio	The Manor, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire
Genre	New wave
Length	35:00
Label	United Artists
Producer	Mike Howlett
Fischer-Z chronology
Word Salad (1979) Going Deaf for a Living (1980) Red Skies over Paradise (1981)

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Going Deaf for a Living is a 1980 album by Fischer-Z. This was the second album by Fischer-Z featuring the "classic line-up". The guitar on this album was made more prominent, after their rather keyboard prominent debut. This album, as well the following Red Skies Over Paradise, are considered by fans as the best work to be produced by Fischer-Z. The album featured the singles "Room Service", "Crazy Girl", "Limbo" and the most popular "So Long", which hit #72 in the UK singles chart, #15 in Australia and #26 in the Netherlands.

"So Long" was the first single by Fischer-Z to have a video made for it, and still garners regular airplay on radio stations in Europe, and Australia.

Track listing

All songs written by John Watts

1. "Room Service"
2. "So Long"
3. "Crazy Girl"
4. "No Right"
5. "Going Deaf For A Living"
6. "Pick Up/Slip Up"
7. "Crank"
8. "Haters"
9. "Four Minutes in Durham (With You)"
10. "Limbo"

Charts

Chart (1980)	Peak position
Australian (Kent Music Report)	52

Personnel

Fischer-Z

• John Watts - lead vocals, guitar
• Steve Skolnik - keyboards
• David Graham - bass
• Steve Liddle - drums

Technical

• Richard Manwaring - engineer
• John Pasche - sleeve, art direction, design
• Phil Jude - cover photography