BMG, in partnership with Rhino Entertainment, will release a 40th-anniversary edition of Ratt’s third studio album, Dancing Undercover, on July 31, 2026. The limited-edition gatefold LP features reimagined cover artwork and zoetrope vinyl with moving images of the band’s logo and the classic lineup housed in an opaque bag.
Vocalist Stephen Pearcy said of the album: “With Dancing Undercover, mostly Robbin [Crosby] and I wanted to get back to a place between the Ratt EP and Out of the Cellar records. The other guys might think differently, and maybe the cracks were starting to happen, but all of us were all over the songs. I like the record, and for a minute or so, Robbin and I accomplished what we wanted to as best we could. That was to make a tougher album.”
The 40th-anniversary edition features the complete original 10-track listing:
- Side A: “Dance” / “One Good Lover” / “Drive Me Crazy” / “Slip of the Lip” / “Body Talk”
- Side B: “Looking for Love” / “7th Avenue” / “It Doesn’t Matter” / “Take a Chance” / “Enough Is Enough”
Pre-order the edition here.
The album featured the classic Ratt lineup of Pearcy, guitarists Warren DeMartini and Robbin Crosby, bassist Juan Croucier, and drummer Bobby Blotzer. Released in 1986, Dancing Undercover was Ratt’s third consecutive platinum album and reached No. 26 on the Billboard 200. The band toured behind it with a then-brand-new Los Angeles band called Poison as the opening act. Lead single “Dance” cracked the Billboard Hot 100, “Slip of the Lip” spawned another music video hit, and “Body Talk” appeared in a key scene in the Eddie Murphy film The Golden Child.
Dancing Undercover followed Ratt’s platinum debut Out of the Cellar (1984, No. 7 Billboard 200, triple platinum; “Round and Round” hit No. 12 on the Hot 100) and the double-platinum Invasion of Your Privacy (1985, No. 7). The band continued its run with Reach for the Sky (1988, No. 17, platinum, powered by MTV favorite “Way Cool Jr.”) and Detonator (1990, No. 23, gold), which featured outside contributions from Desmond Child, Diane Warren, Jon Bon Jovi and Michael Schenker. Ratt has not released new studio material since Infestation (2010).
