I, Assassin

Slap-bass funk and cinematic dread. "We Take Mystery [To Bed]."

Includes the singles

Music For Chameleons - 1982

We Take Mystery [To Bed] - 1982

White Boys And Heroes - 1982

Track Listing

White Boys And Heroes(1)
War Songs
A Dream Of Siam
Music For Chameleons
This Is My House
I, Assassin
The 1930's Rust
We Take Mystery [To Bed]

Extra Tracks

War Games
Glitter And Ash
The Image Is
This House Is Cold
Noise:Noise
We Take Mystery [To Bed] (Early Version)
Bridge? What Bridge?

Release Date

September 1982

Entered Chart

18th September 1982

Highest Chart

Weeks in Chart

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Personnel & Credits

Band

Gary Numan (Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar) Roger Mason (Keyboards) Pino Palladino (Fretless Bass) Chris Slade (Drums, Percussion) John Webb (Percussion) Mike (Saxophone, Harmonica) Tereza Bazaar (Vocals on 'Noise:Noise' and 'Bridge? What Bridge?') David Van Day (Vocals on 'Bridge? What Bridge?')

Crew & Credits

Produced by Gary Numan Engineered by Nick Smith Assisted by Sean Lynch Recorded at Rock City Studios, Shepperton

Release Index

Catalogue	Description	Date
BEGA 40 [Strawberry WLP]	LP Beggars Banquet [Strawberry Pressing WLP]	Sept 1982
BEGA 40 Promo	LP Beggars Banquet [Stamped copy]	Sept 1982
BEGA 40	LP Beggars Banquet [Initial copies with poster]	Sept 1982
BEGA 40 ND	LP Beggars Banquet [No 'Dance' Labels]	Sept 1982
BEGA 40 MP	LP Beggars Banquet [Mispressings]	Sept 1982
BEGA C 40	CA Beggars Banquet	Sept 1982
BEGA 40 Poster	Woolworths Free Poster	Sept 1982
BEGA 19CD	CD Beggars Banquet [with Telekon missing track(1)]	Apr 1988
BBL 40	LP Beggars Banquet [Lowdown Series]	1988 (TBC)
BBLC 40	CA Beggars Banquet [Lowdown Series]	1988 (TBC)
BEGA 154 CD	CD Beggars Banquet [Double CD with Telekon]	Dec 1993
BBL 40CD	CD Beggars Banquet (Remastered)	Dec 2002
BBQCD 2104-4	Disc 4. CD Beggars Banquet (5 Disc Boxset)	May 2013
BBQLP 40 WLP	LP Beggars Banquet [Arkive] White Label Test Pressing	1st March 2019
BBQLP 40	LP Beggars Banquet [Arkive] 180g Green Vinyl	1st March 2019

Released In

Release Gallery

BEGA 40 - 1982. Strawberry Pressing

Never released. Blog to follow

BEGA 40 - 1982. Utopia Pressing

BEGA 40 - No 'Dance' Labels. Utopia Pressing

In preparation for BEGA 28 release, Beggars had custom labels produced for Dance, a lot of them. It didn't sell as well as expected (it only reached number 3 in the charts). Beggars were stuck with an abundance of these unused labels, so to cut their losses they used the excess for I, Assassin. Once they were exhausted, a small batch were printed with 'Dance' omitted.

BEGA 40 - Mispressings

Credits - Stuart Hall, Matthew Ayre

BEGA C 40 - 1982

Thanks to DBR-JOE for the second pressing

BEGA 40 - 1982. Poster (Free at Woolworths)

BEGA 19CD - 1987

BBL 40 - 1988 (TBC)

Credits - Owner Unknown

BBL stickers were stuck on the front and back of the BEGA 40 covers. It is unknown at this time if any lowdown series labels or covers were produced for BBL 40.