Sun City (album)

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Sun City
Studio album by Artists United Against Apartheid
Released	October 25, 1985
Recorded	Summer 1985
Studio	Shakedown Sound, NYC The Hit Factory, NYC Electric Lady, NYC M&I Recording, NYC Unique, NYC Right Track, NYC Soundworks, NYC Power Station, NYC Fallout Shelter, London The Outpost, Los Angeles Windmill Lane, Dublin Cherokee, Los Angeles Syncro Sound, Boston Eel Pie Studios, Middlesex Startling Studios, Ascot
Genre	Rock pop hip hop jazz[1][2]
Length	45:33
Label	EMI Manhattan
Producer	Little Steven Arthur Baker
Singles from Sun City
"Sun City" Released: 16 October 1985[1][3] "Let Me See Your I.D." Released: 1985 "Silver and Gold (promo)" Released: 1985

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[4]
Christgau's Record Guide	A−[5]
Rolling Stone	Not rated link

Sun City is the first and only album by Artists United Against Apartheid, released on October 25, 1985,^[1][6] by EMI Manhattan Records. The Little Steven-led project features contributions from more than 50 artists from the rock, hip hop, soul, funk, jazz, reggae, latin, and world music genres.^[1][3][6] The album contains two versions of the "Sun City" protest song against apartheid in South Africa as well as other selections in the same vein from that project.^[1]