Body and the Beat is the seventh studio album recorded by Australian-New Zealand rock band, Dragon.

The album was released in June 1984 and peaked at number 5 on the Australian Kent Music Report.

The album was certified gold in the week of release[1] and achieved platinum status in Australia.

Although Dragon had reformed with the "classic" 1970s line-up which had produced the group's biggest hits of the previous decade, this album saw some line-up changes: the addition of second keyboard player Alan Mansfield and the substitution of Terry Chambers for Kerry Jacobson.

Between the demise and revival of Dragon, Pigott and Hunter had been members of, and songwriting contributors to, the group XL Capris.