Boxer : Bloodletting

LOVE HAS GOT ME

LOVE IS CHANGING ME 

TURNING ME AROUND

IT'S NOT THE 

SAME ANYMORE

Bloodletting

 is the third

 and

 final studio album

 by the

 rock band

Boxer

released on

 the Virgin 

record label

 in 1979. 

Their third album

 in order of release,

 it had in fact

 been recorded

 in 1976

 after their debut

 Below the Belt.

 It was also a 

posthumous release

 for band leader

 Mike Patto, 

who had died of

 lymphatic leukemia

 in March 1979, 

and for

 bass player

 Keith Ellis, 

who had died

 December 1978.

 Patto was credited 

as writer of all

 the album's 

original songs.

 Also featured

 were

 cover versions 

of

 "Hey Bulldog" 

by 

Lennon and McCartney,

 Leonard Cohen's

 "Teachers", 

"Dinah Low"

 by Terry Stamp 

and 

Jim Avery 

who also wrote

 "Town Drunk" 

on Boxer's 

debut album,

 Below The Belt

and 

"The Loner" 

by Neil Young.

 The cover artwork 

was by

 Tony Wright.

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