

Annette Cisneros, Judy Clapp, Mark Stebbeds, Jimmy Perziosi – engineering assistance.Hans Peter Huber – engineering (tracks 4, 6, 7).Spencer Proffer – production, arrangements (tracks 4, 6, 7).Rick Neigher – production, arrangements (tracks 2, 3, 5, 8–11).David Cole – production, arrangements, engineering, mixing (tracks 2, 3, 5, 8–11).Brian Foraker – engineering, mixing (track 1).Richard Marx – keyboards, production, arrangements (track 1).Share Pedersen – bass, background vocals.Roxy Petrucci – drums, background vocals.Jan Kuehnemund – lead and rhythm guitar, background vocals.Janet Gardner – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, background vocals.Ĭredits adapted from the liner notes of Vixen. The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on February 6, 1989. Vixen was featured at number 43 in Rolling Stone magazine's list of the "50 Greatest Hair Metal Albums of All Time". "Give It Away" is credited to Paris's real name Geoffrey Leib and was included on his previous album Race to Paradise from 1986. The three songs co-written by Jeff Paris, "Cryin'", "One Night Alone" and the bonus track "Charmed Life" were previously released on Paris's 1987 solo album Wired Up. Richard Marx, one of the late 1980s' most successful recording artists, was heavily involved in Vixen's early career, co-producing the album and writing one of their highest-charting singles, "Edge of a Broken Heart". It includes the singles " Edge of a Broken Heart" and "Cryin'", which reached numbers 26 and 22 on the Billboard Hot 100, respectively. Vixen is the debut studio album by American rock band Vixen, released on August 31, 1988, by EMI's Manhattan Records.
