Reach the Beach

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Reach the Beach is the second studio album by the English new wave band the Fixx, released in May 1983 by MCA Records. It was the group's most successful studio album, reaching No. 8 on the Billboard albums chart<ref name=":0">Template:Cite magazine</ref> and eventually selling two million copies in the United States alone. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA.<ref name="riaa">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was certified platinum in Canada in November 1983. The album's cover art was provided by George Underwood, who went on to illustrate future Fixx releases including Phantoms (1984), Calm Animals (1989), and Beautiful Friction (2012).<ref>Album covers by George Underwood https://www.georgeunderwood.com/#/albumcovers/</ref>

Reach the Beach contains their best-known and highest charting single, "One Thing Leads to Another", which reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.<ref name="hot100" />

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the Reach the Beach liner notes.<ref name=linernotes2>Template:Cite AV media notes</ref>

Template:Col-begin Template:Col-2 Musicians

• Cy Curnin – vocals
• Rupert Greenall – keyboards
• Jamie West-Oram – guitar
• Adam Woods – percussion; drums
• Alfie Agius – bass on "One Thing Leads to Another", "Saved by Zero" and "Liner"
• Dan K. Brown – bass on "The Sign of Fire"

Agius left the Fixx partway through the recording sessions, and is not listed as an official group member in the album credits.

Brown played bass on one track, and on the subsequent tour; he would be promoted to full group-member status as of the band's next studio album, Phantoms (1984).

Template:Col-2 Production and artwork

• Rupert Hine – producer
• Stephen W Tayler – engineer; mixing
• George Underwood – front cover painting
• Trevor Toms – photography
• The Cream Group (Design Company from Amsterdam, the Netherlands) – mechanical artwork

Charts

Chart (1983)	Peak position
Australia Kent Music Report<ref name=":Aus">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	68
Canada RPM<ref name=":Canada">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	8
Dutch Charts<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	38
UK Official Charts<ref name=":UK">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	91
US Billboard 200<ref name=":0" />	8

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1983	"One Thing Leads to Another"	Billboard Hot 100<ref name="hot100">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	4
		Top Rock Tracks	2
		Club Play Singles	14
	"Saved by Zero"	Billboard Hot 100<ref name="hot100"/>	20
		Top Rock Tracks	9
1984	"The Sign of Fire"	Billboard Hot 100<ref name="hot100"/>	32
		Top Rock Tracks	20

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