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World Party is a successful British pop/rock band, which is essentially the solo project of its multi-talented only member, Karl Wallinger. The band was started in 1985 after Wallinger amicably left The Waterboys. The name "World Party" reflects Wallinger's Green and radical interests. For popular forms of music in general, see Popular music. ...
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Karl Wallinger (born October 19, 1957 in Prestatyn, Wales), is a Welsh musician. ...
Year 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays 1985 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Waterboys are a band formed in 1983 by Mike Scott. ...
Formation After a stint as musical director of a West End performance of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, Wallinger joined a funk band dubbed The Out, before signing on with Mike Scott's Waterboys in 1984 to record the LP A Pagan Place. After 1985's superb This Is the Sea, Wallinger amicably departed to form World Party, a one-man project heavily indebted to Revolver-era Beatlesque pop modified for the eco-generation; recorded at Wallinger's home, his debut album Private Revolution from late-1986 scored a UK Top 40 hit with the infectious lead single "Ship of Fools." After a long layoff (during which time Wallinger aided Sinéad O'Connor in recording her 1988 debut, The Lion and the Cobra), World Party returned in 1990 with Goodbye Jumbo, another successful collection offering the minor hits "Way Down Now" and "Put the Message in the Box", together with songwriting collaborator Guy Chambers. After the 1991 stopgap EP Thank You World (including a cover of the Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun"), Wallinger recruited guitarist David Catlin-Birch and drummer Chris Sharrock as full-fledged members for 1993's big hit album Bang!, which reached the number two position on the British album charts and re-launched Wallinger as a hero of the Glastonbury and green crowds. After 1997's Egyptology, Wallinger took a three-year break from World Party, returning in 2000 with the less successful Dumbing Up. The Rocky Horror Picture Show (first released in the United Kingdom on 14 August 1975) is a comedy-horror musical film directed by Jim Sharman from a screenplay by Sharman and Richard OBrien, who also composed the songs. ...
The Waterboys is a band formed 1983 by Mike Scott. ...
A Pagan Place was an album released in June 1984 by The Waterboys. ...
This Is The Sea was The Waterboys third and last of their Big Music era albums. ...
The ship of fools, depicted in a 1549 German woodcut The ship of fools is an old allegory that has long been used in Western culture in literature and paintings. ...
Sinéad Marie Bernadette OConnor (born December 8, 1966) is a Grammy Award winning Irish singer and songwriter. ...
The Lion and the Cobra is the 1987 debut album by Irish singer Sinéad OConnor. ...
Although ostensibly the second album by British group World Party, Goodbye Jumbo (1990) was essentially a solo project by one-man orchestra Karl Wallinger, aided by a number of guest artists. ...
Guy Chambers (born January 12, 1963 in London) is an English songwriter and record producer best known for his long partnership with Robbie Williams. ...
Happiness Is a Warm Gun is a song by The Beatles featured on the double-disc album The Beatles (also known as The White Album). ...
Most famously the World Party bassist, including their Is It Like Today track from No. ...
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or Glasto, is the largest[1] greenfield music and performing arts festival in the world. ...
Green politics or Green ideology is the ideology of the Green Parties, mainly informed by environmentalism, ecosophy and sustainable economics and aimed at developing a sustainable society. ...
Dumbing Up is an album by World Party released in 2000 and then re-released with a special DVD and new track listing in 2006. ...
Music World Party's music is hard to categorise, being a tuneful but sophisticated pop and rock combination, with elements of folk, funk, R n B and soul thrown in with a lot of sound samples to give a "recycled" feel in accordance with the band's "Green" image. Wallinger cites as influences The Beatles, Bob Dylan, The Beach Boys, Junior Walker, Neil Young (that love of sublime guitar solos), and Prince (most obviously on the Goodbye Jumbo track "Love Street"). Wallinger sings and plays most of the instruments himself, using multitracking to create a polished studio sound. Lyrically, many of the songs feature thoughtful and occasionally political sentiments. Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including: Traditional music: The original meaning of the term folk music was synonymous with the term Traditional music, also often including World Music and Roots music; the term Traditional music was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the...
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The White Album, see The Beatles (album). ...
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The first album was Private Revolution, released in 1987, which yielded two minor hits in the UK, "Private Revolution" and "Ship of Fools", however the latter was to reach number 4 in Australia and number 27 in the USA (when the album charted); but it wasn't until the follow up, Goodbye Jumbo (1990) that World Party came to more widespread notice. This album yielded two significant hits - "Put the Message in the Box" (#39 in the UK) and "Way Down Now". Goodbye Jumbo was voted album of the year by Q magazine and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Alternative Music Performance in the USA. The influence of British Invasion rock on World Party's music was much more obvious on this effort, from the "hoo hoo" chorus on "Way Down Now" coming straight from the Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil," to the album photography that was laid out in the same manner as the promotional poster from the Beatles' so-called "White Album." Private Revolution is the 1986 debut album by the British rock band World Party. ...
Year 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar). ...
Although ostensibly the second album by British group World Party, Goodbye Jumbo (1990) was essentially a solo project by one-man orchestra Karl Wallinger, aided by a number of guest artists. ...
Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...
Q is a music and entertainment magazinepublished monthly in the United Kingdom. ...
The third album, Bang! (1993), continued the band's creative borrowing of classic rock tropes and nicked the bridge from The Who's "Getting In Tune" for the track "Sunshine". Bang was a bigger success in chart placing terms, reaching number 2 in the UK album chart, with the track "Is It Like Today?" also being a successful single in Europe, but sales were already on the slide. Even so, the fourth album, Egyptology (1996), written following the death of Wallinger's mother, was commercially disastrous, although "She's The One" won an Ivor Novello award and was subsequently recorded by Robbie Williams. The album Dumbing Up was released in 2000 on the band's own label, and was a real return to form, arguably Wallinger's best work since Goodbye Jumbo. Shortly afterwards, however, Wallinger was struck down by an aneurysm that left him unable to speak. Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ...
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Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ...
For footballers with the same name, see Robbie Williams (footballer). ...
Dumbing Up is an album by World Party released in 2000 and then re-released with a special DVD and new track listing in 2006. ...
Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...
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After a long rehabilitation, Wallinger re-emerged onto the scene in 2006. With his back catalogue reclaimed from EMI, a distribution deal was struck (via his own Seaview label) with Universal, and he played his first live show in a decade at the Austin-based South by Southwest festival. Further US dates have been set up for May and June 2006. Big Blue Ball, a joint project with Peter Gabriel with production work by Stephen Hague (Pet Shop Boys, New Order) is also in the pipeline. Downtown Austin, Texas, where SXSW is held each spring Bloc Party performing at Stubbs BBQ in 2007 Carrie Rodriguez, a SXSW 2007 performer Morrissey at SXSW 2006 South by Southwest (SXSW) is a set of interactive, film, and music festivals and conferences that have taken place every spring in...
Big Blue Ball is an upcoming album by Peter Gabriel, to be released in autumn 2007. ...
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Discography
Albums Private Revolution is the 1986 debut album by the British rock band World Party. ...
Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ...
Although ostensibly the second album by British group World Party, Goodbye Jumbo (1990) was essentially a solo project by one-man orchestra Karl Wallinger, aided by a number of guest artists. ...
Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...
This article is about the Bang! card game. ...
Year 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar). ...
The Great Sphinx of Giza against Khafres Pyramid at the Giza pyramid complex. ...
For the band, see 1997 (band). ...
Dumbing Up is an album by World Party released in 2000 and then re-released with a special DVD and new track listing in 2006. ...
Year 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display full 2000 Gregorian calendar). ...
Dumbing Up is an album by World Party released in 2000 and then re-released with a special DVD and new track listing in 2006. ...
Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Hit singles - Ship of Fools (1987) : #4 in Australia; #27 in the US, #42 in the UK
- Put the Message in the Box (1990) : #39 in the UK; #8 in the US Modern Rock chart
- Way Down Now (1990) : #1 in the US Modern Rock chart, #66 in the UK
- Thank You World (1991) : #68 UK
- Is It Like Today (1993) : #19 in the UK; #52 in Germany; #5 in the US Modern Rock chart
- Give It All Away : (1993) #43 UK
- All I Gave (1993) : #37 in the UK
- Beautiful Dream (1997) : #31 in the UK
Modern rock or Nu-breed is term commonly used to describe a rock music format found on American commercial radio. ...
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