''Private Revolution'' is the debut album by the Welsh-British rock band

World Party World Party was a musical group, predominantly the solo project of its sole consistent member, the songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Karl Wallinger.

. At this point, singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist

Karl Wallinger Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger (19 October 1957 – 10 March 2024) was a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. He was best known for leading the band World Party and for his mid-1980s membership of the Waterboys (contributing in parti ...

was the only member of World Party, and the only person pictured on the cover. Wallinger is assisted on this album by several session musicians, including

Anthony Thistlethwaite Anthony "Anto" Thistlethwaite (born 31 August 1955, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, England) is an English-born Irish multi-instrumentalist best known as a founding member (with guitarist Mike Scott) of the folk rock group, The Waterboys and lat ...

Steve Wickham Steve Wickham is an Irish musician. Originally from Ballyfermot, Dublin, but calling Sligo home, Wickham was a founding member of In Tua Nua (left in 1985 replaced by Aingeala de Burca) and played violin on the classic U2 song " Sunday Blo ...

and

Sinéad O'Connor Shuhada' Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor; , ; 8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023) was an Irish singer, songwriter, record producer and activist. Her debut studio album, ''The Lion and the Cobra'', was released in 1987 and achieve ...

. Several other musicians listed in the credits are actually whimsically named pseudonyms for Wallinger himself.

Track listing

All songs written by Karl Wallinger except "Dance of the Hoppy Lads", written by Wallinger with Stephen Wickham, and "All I Really Want to Do", written by

Bob Dylan Bob Dylan (legally Robert Dylan; born Robert Allen Zimmerman, May 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter. Described as one of the greatest songwriters of all time, Dylan has been a major figure in popular culture over his nearly 70-year ...

. # "Private Revolution" – 4:01 # "Making Love (To the World)" – 2:30 # "

Ship of Fools The ship of fools (Modern German: ; ), is an allegory, first appearing in Book VI of Plato's ''Republic'', about a ship with a dysfunctional crew. The allegory is intended to represent the problems of governance prevailing in a political system ...

" – 4:27 # "All Come True" – 5:52 # "Dance of the Hoppy Lads" – 0:44 # "It Can Be Beautiful (Sometimes)" – 3:00 # "The Ballad of the Little Man" – 5:02 # "Hawaiian Island World" – 4:20 # " All I Really Want to Do" – 4:43 # "World Party" – 4:36 # "It's All Mine" – 5:33

Personnel

;World Party *

— vocals, guitars, bass, sampling keyboards, drum programming with: *Rufus Dove — guitars ''(probably a pseudonym for Wallinger - pun on " rufous dove")'' *Will Towyn — sampling keyboards ''(probably a pseudonym for Wallinger - pun on "will to win")'' *Delahaye — drums, percussion ''(possibly a pseudonym for Wallinger, or for Mike Scott - this is an alias also used on several Waterboys albums)'' *Millennium Mills — piano ''(probably a pseudonym for Wallinger - name taken from Millennium Mills building in London Docklands)'' *Ahmed Gottlieb — sitar and tabla ''(probably a pseudonym for Wallinger)'' ;Additional personnel *

— backing vocals on "Hawaiian Island World" *

— violin on "All Come True" and "Dance of the Hoppy Lads" *Martin Finnucane — harp on "Dance of the Hoppy Lads" ''(probably a pseudonym for Wallinger - this is the name of a character in the

Flann O'Brien Brian O'Nolan (; 5 October 19111 April 1966), his pen name being Flann O'Brien, was an Civil Service of the Republic of Ireland, Irish civil service official, novelist, playwright and satirist, who is now considered a major figure in twentieth- ...

novel The Third Policeman)'' *

— saxophone on "Ship of Fools" *Rear cover monoprint – Edward Durdey *Cover photographs – Steve Wallace assisted by Mathew Stevens *Design – Stephanie Nash and Josh Riley

Charts

References

{{Authority control World Party albums 1987 debut albums Chrysalis Records albums