When The World Knows Your Name

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When The World Knows Your Name
Studio album by Deacon Blue
Released April 1989
Recorded 1988
Genre Pop, Soul, Blues
Label Columbia Records
Producer(s) Deacon Blue, David Kahne
Deacon Blue chronology
Raintown (1987) When The World Knows Your Name (1989) Fellow Hoodlums (1991)


When The World Knows Your Name is the second album for the Scottish rock band Deacon Blue. It was released in 1989 and attained the number 1 chart position in the United Kingdom. Real Gone Kid was the band's first Top 10 hit, reaching #8 in October 1988. Wages Day, Fergus Sings The Blues, Love And Regert and Queen Of The New Year were all lifted from the album and reached the Top 30.


[edit] Track Listing

All songs written by Ricky Ross, except where noted:

  1. Queen Of The New Year (Ross/Prime)
  2. Wages Day
  3. Real Gone Kid
  4. Love And Regret
  5. Circus Lights
  6. This Changing Light (Ross/Prime)
  7. Sad Loved Girl
  8. Fergus Sings The Blues (Ross/Prime)
  9. The World Is Lit By Lightning (Ross/Prime)
  10. Silhouette
  11. One Hundred Things
  12. Your Constant Heart
  13. Orphans (Ross/Vernal)

[edit] Deacon Blue

  • Ricky Ross
  • Lorraine McIntosh
  • James Prime
  • Ewan Vernal
  • Graeme Kelling
  • Douglas Vipond