Big Dreamers Never Sleep


Big Dreamers Never Sleep is the ninth studio album by Gino Vannelli, released in 1987. Produced like his previous work with his brothers Joe and Ross, the album was his most successful internationally but a failure in the United States where it became his lowest-charting album since his debut Crazy Life failed to dent the Top 200.

Background

Vannelli at this point in his career was coming off a mixed period, whereby the album Twisted Heart was recorded but no label would release it, followed by a label shift and 1985's Black Cars. Black Cars did not equal the chart success of his earlier A&M albums, and following that album's release Vannelli did not tour and moved from his native Canada to Los Angeles, where he would record his second album for the label.
Big Dreamers Never Sleep was released in North America at the close of winter 1987 and later that year internationally.
After the album further diminished his commercial standing in the United States – despite unprecedented success in Europe and Australia with the single "Wild Horses" – Vannelli did tour not to play music, but to inform children about the problems of illicit drugs. Excluding a few performances in late 1987 after he won a Juno Award for "Wild Horses", he would not return to live concerts until after his next album Inconsolable Man.

Personnel

Musicians
Backing vocals

Production