Red Hot and Heavy

Red, Hot and Heavy is the first full-length studio album by the Danish hard rock/heavy metal band Pretty Maids. It was released in 1984 by CBS Records. The song "Night Danger" was used on the soundtrack for the horror film Demons (1985) by Lamberto Bava. Red, Hot and Heavy was ranked number 437 in Rock Hard magazine's The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time in 2005.^[4]

Red, Hot and Heavy
Studio album by Pretty Maids
Released	29 October 1984
Recorded	Puk Studios, 1984
Genre	Hard rock, heavy metal
Length	36:17
Label	CBS
Producer	Billy Cross, Tommy Hansen
Pretty Maids chronology
Pretty Maids (1983) Red, Hot and Heavy (1984) Future World (1987)
Singles from Red, Hot and Heavy
"Waitin' for the Time" Released: 1984 "Red, Hot and Heavy" Released: 1985

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Hit Parader	^[2]
Rock Hard	9/10^[3]

Track listing

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi (Carmina Burana)"		Carl Orff	0:22
2.	"Back to Back"	Ronnie Atkins	Ken Hammer, Alan Owen	3:34
3.	"Red, Hot and Heavy"	Atkins	Hammer	3:58
4.	"Waitin' for the Time"	Atkins	Hammer	4:45
5.	"Cold Killer"	Atkins	Hammer	4:42
6.	"Battle of Pride"	Atkins	Hammer	3:14
7.	"Night Danger"	Atkins	Hammer, Owen	3:52
8.	"A Place in the Night"	Atkins	Hammer, Owen	3:58
9.	"Queen of Dreams"	Atkins	Hammer	4:45
10.	"Little Darling"	Phil Lynott	Lynott	2:59

Personnel

• Ronnie Atkins – vocals
• Ken Hammer – lead, rhythm and acoustic guitars
• Rick Hanson – lead and rhythm guitars
• Allan Delong – bass
• Phil Moorhead – drums
• Alan Owen – keyboards

Guest musicians

• Billy Cross – lead guitar (track 10), lead introduction (track 8)
• Tommy Hansen – organs (track 10)
• Knud Lindhard – backing vocals (tracks 4, 5, 8, 10)

Other staff

• Billy Cross – producer
• Tommy Hansen – producer, Fairlight CMI programming, organ (track 10)

References

1. "Pretty Maids – Red, Hot & Heavy review". AllMusic. Retrieved 8 July 2012.
2. Secher, Andy (July 1985). "Import Albums: Pretty Maids – Red, Hot & Heavy". Hit Parader. No. 250. Derby, Connecticut: Charlton Publications, Inc. p. 58. ISSN 0162-0266. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
3. Lerch, Uwe. "Album review". Rock Hard, issue 9 (in German). Retrieved 22 May 2013.
4. Best of Rock & Metal - Die 500 stärksten Scheiben aller Zeiten (in German). Rock Hard. 2005. p. 34. ISBN 3-89880-517-4.