After successful albums that effectively followed contemporary hard rock trends, Cinderella reached back into the Stones and Aerosmith songbooks and created a sneering, raunchy hard rock album that was artistically their finest moment, even if it didn't reach the same commercial heights as its predecessors. But the sales figures don't matter (it only sold a million copies); Heartbreak Station shows that Cinderella has more genuine rock & roll grit than most of the metal bands of the late '80s. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
John Jansen (Producer), Carla Benson (Vocals (Background)), Andrew Love (Saxophone), Tom Keifer (Slide Guitar), John Paul Jones (Strings), Sharon Foster (Vocals (Background)), Wayne Jackson (Trumpet), Gene Foster (Assistant Engineer), Scott Townsend (Design), Jim Odom (Assistant Engineer), Tom Keifer (Mandolin), Mike Reiter (Mixing), Robert John (Collage), Fred Coury (Drums), George Cowan (Mixing), Jeff LaBar (Guitar), Eric Brittingham (Guitar (Bass)), Roy McDonald (Synthesizer), Tom Keifer (Guitar (Acoustic)), Jay Davidson (Saxophone), John Paul Jones (String Arrangements), Jeff LaBar (Slide Guitar), Curtis King (Vocals (Background)), Bashiri Johnson (Percussion), Evette Benton (Vocals (Background)), Roy McDonald (Programming), Tom Keifer (Lap Steel Guitar), Tom Keifer (Mandocello), John Paul Jones (Arranger), K. Criniti (Keyboards), Elaine Foster (Vocals (Background)), John Avarese (Synthesizer), Rick Criniti (Keyboards), Rod Roddy (Clavinet), Tawatha Agee (Vocals (Background)), Ken Hensley (Organ), Rob Schumann (Guitar), The Memphis Horns (Horn), Eric Troyer (Vocals (Background)), Mitchell Kanner (Art Direction), Neil Zlozower (Collage), Tara Pellerin (Vocals (Background)), Tom Keifer (Producer), John Avarese (Synthesizer Programming), Tom Keifer (Vocals), Brian Stover (Assistant Engineer), Tom Keifer (Dobro), Tom Keifer (?), William Hames (Collage), Gary Lyons (Engineer), Jay Levin (Pedal Steel), Jay Davidson (Piano), Tom Keifer (Guitar (Electric)), Mark Weiss (Collage), Fred Coury (Vocals (Background)), Matthew Boomer La Monica (Assistant Engineer), Jay Levin (Guitar), Tom Keifer (Guitar), Brian O'Neal (Piano), Michael Barbiero (Mixing), Mitchell Kanner (Design), Tom Keifer (Guitar (12 String)), Fred Coury (Percussion), Tom Keifer (Piano), Roy McDonald (Synthesizer Programming), Ross Halfin (Photography), Mark Weiss (Photography), Rod Roddy (Piano), Steve Thompson (Mixing), Brenda King (Vocals (Background)), Brian O'Neal (Organ), Eric Brittingham (Bass)
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Heartbreak Station is Cinderella's third studio album, released in 1990 through Mercury Records. It hit #19 in the US and went platinum for selling a million albums there the same year. The band's two previous efforts, Night Songs and Long Cold Winter, had both gone double platinum and reaching triple during the 1990s, and had each landed in the US top ten while featuring a US top 20 hit, Heartbreak Station achieved none of these things. Vocalist Tom Keifer has stated on several occasions that this is his favorite Cinderella record[citation needed]. The album featured three singles, which were "Shelter Me", hitting #36 in the US, the title track, which made #44, and "The More Things Change", which didn't chart.
