A Walk Across the Rooftops
| A Walk Across the Rooftops | ||||
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| Released | 30 April 1984 | |||
| Recorded | 1981–1983 | |||
| Studio | Castlesound Studios, Pencaitland, East Lothian, Scotland | |||
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| Length | 37:47 | |||
| Label | Linn, A&M | |||
| Producer | Paul Buchanan and Robert Bell | |||
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A Walk Across the Rooftops is the debut album by Scottish band The Blue Nile, released on 30 April 1984 on Linn Records in the UK and on A&M Records in the US. Although the album was released to little fanfare and was not a big hit on its initial release, it slowly accumulated fans and sales through word of mouth as the years passed, and by the time the follow-up Hats was released in 1989, A Walk Across the Rooftops had sold 80,000 copies. It continued to gather praise when reissued in 2012.