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, and in 2015, was certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) in the United Kingdom, indicating sales in excess of 60,000 copies.