Maverick is the sixth studio album by the American blues rock band George Thorogood and the Destroyers. It was released in 1985 by the label EMI America Records. Some of its songs are among Thorogood's best-known, including "I Drink Alone" and "Willie and the Hand Jive". The album peaked at No. 32 on the Billboard 200 chart. In 1982 the Destroyers released their album Bad to the Bone, which they supported with a worldwide tour. In July 1984 they began recording of Maverick, which was released on January 25, 1985. The album received mixed reviews from critics, but ended up selling more than 500,000 copies, and together with Born to Be Bad is their highest-charting studio album on the Billboard 200 chart. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maveric...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)