''Up'' is the fifth
studio album
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by English
pop
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Arts, entertainment, and media
* Pop music, a musical genre
Artists
* POP, a Japanese idol group now known as Gang Parade
* Pop! (British group), a UK pop group
* Pop! featuring Angie Hart, an Australian band
Album ...
band
ABC
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* American Broadcasting Company, a commercial American ...
, released in October 1989. This time experimenting with
house music
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, it was ABC's first album not to make the top 40 in the UK. However, they scored a minor UK hit with the single "
One Better World
"One Better World" is a song by the English band ABC, released as the first single from their fifth studio album
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", an ode to love, peace and tolerance. "
The Real Thing" was also released as a single. ''Up'' was the band's final album released on the
PolyGram label.
In 2005, a digitally remastered CD of the album was released with five bonus tracks.
Track listing
Personnel
ABC
*
Martin Fry
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– vocals
*
Mark White – keyboards, programming
Additional personnel
* Dave Clayton – keyboards
* Ritchie Close – keyboards
*
Mike Pickering
Mike Pickering is an English musician, DJ, songwriter, A&R Executive from Manchester, UK.
Career
Pickering was a DJ at The Haçienda's Nude and Hot nights, and later Shine. He worked for Factory Records, where he signed Happy Mondays, To Hell ...
– keyboards, programming and
DJ (9)
*
Rob Dean
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He is fr ...
– guitars
* Maurice Michael – guitars, backing vocals
* Danny Cummings – drums, percussion
* David Palmer – drums, percussion
* Phil Smith – saxophones
* Graeme Park – DJ (9)
* Alan Carvell – backing vocals
* Lorenza Johnson – backing vocals
Production
* Producers – Martin Fry and Mark White
* Additional production on tracks 3 & 9 – Blaze
* Engineers –
Mark Stent
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* Mark the Evangelist (5–68), traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark
* Gospel of Mark, one of the four canonical gospels and one of the three synoptic gospels
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* Mark (currency), a curren ...
(tracks 1 & 3–11);
Bob Kraushaar
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(track 2).
* Assistant engineer – Tim Burrell
* Mixing – Bob Kraushaar (tracks 1, 2 & 4–8);
Julian Mendelsohn
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Early life
After completing school in Australia, Mendelsohn moved to the United Kingdom. He secured his first job in 1974 at Milner Sound Fulham Rd. Chelsea, run by ...
(track 3).
* Remix – Graeme Park and Mike Pickering (track 9); Bob Kraushaar (tracks 10 & 11).
* Mixed at Marcus Studios and
Sarm West Studios
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(London, UK).
* Mastered by Ian Cooper at
Townhouse Studios
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(London, UK).
* Sleeve design – ABC and
Design KB
* Photography – Paul Cox
* Management – Bennett Freed
Chart performance
Weekly charts
References
External links
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1989 albums
ABC (band) albums
Mercury Records albums