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Waking Up
Studio album by Topper Headon
Released	1986 (1986)
Recorded	July–August 1986
Studio	Wessex, London
Genre	Soul, jazz, R&B
Length	38:24
Label	Mercury
Producer	Jeremy Green, Topper Headon

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Waking Up is the debut solo album by Topper Headon, best known as the drummer of the Clash. The album was released by Mercury in 1986 with a cover photograph taken by Tim White. "Leave It to Luck" was released as a single and as part of an EP.^[2] The album was dedicated to the memory of Pete Farndon.

All tracks composed and arranged by Topper Headon, except where indicated.

1. "Leave It to Luck"
2. "I'll Give You Everything"
3. "Hope for Donna"
4. "Got to Keep on Going"
5. "Dancing"
6. "Pleasure and Pain"
7. "When You're Down"
8. "Time Is Tight" (Booker T. Jones, Steve Cropper, Donald "Duck" Dunn, Al Jackson Jr.)
9. "Just Another Hit"
10. "Monkey on My Back"

• Topper Headon - drums, percussion
• Martin Dobson - saxophone
• Mick Gallagher - keyboards
• Mark Graham - trombone
• Tom Harris - saxophone
• Jimmy Helms - vocals
• Jerome Rimson - bass, vocals
• Bob Tench - guitar, vocals
• Geoffrey Miller - trumpet, flugelhorn
• Robert Johnson - guitar on ("Just Another Hit")