"Breakdown Dead Ahead" is a 1980 song recorded by Boz Scaggs, and composed by Scaggs and David Foster. It was the lead single of two released from Scaggs's album Middle Man.
During May, the song reached number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number 12 on the Cash Box Top 100. The song was a bigger hit in Canada, where it spent two weeks at number eight on the Pop chart.
Charts Weekly charts Chart (1980) PeakpositionAustralia (Kent Music Report)64US Billboard Hot 100Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - 15US Cash Box Top 10012
Year-end charts Chart (1980)RankCanada67US Billboard Hot 100"Pop Singles" Billboard December 20, 1980: TIA-1097US Cash Box Top 10093
Personnel Rick Marotta – drums Boz Scaggs – lead vocals, guitar David Foster – acoustic piano Don Grolnick – electric piano Lenny Castro – percussion David Hungate – bass Steve Lukather – additional guitars, guitar solo Ray Parker Jr. – guitar Paulette K Brown – background vocals Venetta Fields – background vocals Bill Thedford – background vocals
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