Always Guaranteed

Always Guaranteed
Studio album by Cliff Richard
Released September 1987
Recorded 13 October - November 1986, RG Jones Recording Studios/Wimbledon
Genre Pop
Label EMI
Producer Alan Tarney
Cliff Richard chronology
The Rock Connection (1984) Always Guaranteed (1987) Stronger (1989)

Always Guaranteed is an album by Cliff Richard.

Contents

Overview

Always Guaranteed was released in 1987 and reached #5 on the UK Albums Chart. Four songs were released as singles - "My Pretty One" #6, "Some People" #3 (Certified Silver in UK for 250,000 sales), "Remember Me" #35 and "Two Hearts" #34.

The album marked a strong chart comeback for Richard, giving him a second spell of success in the 1980s, which continued with "Mistletoe and Wine" as the single following on from "Two Hearts".

All the singles collectively have sold over 850,000 copies worldwide and the album has passed sales of 2 million worldwide.

Track listing

# Song title Songwriter length
1 One Night Alan Tarney 4:31
2 Once Upon a Time Tarney 4:34
3 Some People Tarney 3:52
4 Forever Tarney 4:03
5 Two Hearts Tarney 4:10
6 Under Your Spell Chris Eaton 4:20
7 This Time Now Tarney 3:59
8 My Pretty One Tarney 3:58
9 Remember Me Tarney 3:54
10 Always Guaranteed Tarney 4:40
CD Re-issue: Bonus tracks
11 Under the Gun J.D. Martin, James Andrew Rushing 4:13
12 Brave New World Tarney 4:19
13 Wild Geese Jon Sweet, Rod Trott 4:39
14 Love Ya Richard 3:28
15 One Time Lover Man Richard 3:31
16 Another Christmas Day Richard 3:08
17 Yesterday, Today, Forever Richard 3:36
18 Reunion of the Heart Maldwyn Pope 4:24

Chart positions

Chart (1987/88) Position
Australian Albums Chart 6
Austrian Albums Chart 23
German Albums Chart 9
New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart[1] 3
Swedish Albums Chart 49
Switzerland[2] 21
UK Albums Chart[3] 5
Country Provider(s) Certification Sales/Shipments
Australia[4] ARIA Platinum 70,000+
Austria[5] IFPI No Certificate 8,000+
Denmark IFPI Platinum 30,000+
Germany IFPI No Certificate 40,000+
New Zealand[1] RIANZ Gold 10,000+
Sweden IFPI No Certificate 5,000+
Switzerland[2] IFPI No Certificate 25,000+
UK[6] BPI 2x Platinum 750,000+

References

  1. ^ a b "New Zealand Certification (RIANZ)". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. http://www.rianz.org.nz/rianz/chart.asp. Retrieved 12 May 2007. 
  2. ^ a b "Swiss Certification (IFPI)". IFPI. http://www.hitparade.ch/awards.asp?year=2000. Retrieved 12 May 2007. 
  3. ^ "UK Albums Chart (Search)". Everyhit.com. http://www.everyhit.com/. Retrieved 12 May 2007. 
  4. ^ "Australian Certification (ARIA)". Australian Recording Industry Association. http://www.aria.com.au/pages/aria-charts-accreditations-albums-2002.htm. Retrieved 12 May 2007. 
  5. ^ "Austrian Certification (IFPI)". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. http://www.ifpi.at/. Retrieved 7 May 2007. 
  6. ^ "UK Certification (BPI)". British Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 11 March 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070311010631/http://www.bpi.co.uk/index.asp?Page=stats/content_file_118.shtml. Retrieved 12 May 2007. 
Cliff Richard
Albums (UK)
1950s:
Cliff (1959) · Cliff Sings (1959)
1960s:
Me and My Shadows (1960) · Listen to Cliff! (1961) · 21 Today (1961) · The Young Ones (1961, soundtrack) · 32 Minutes and 17 Seconds (1962) · Summer Holiday (1963, soundtrack) · When in Spain (1963) · Wonderful Life (1964, soundtrack) · Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp (1964, stage show album) · Cliff Richard (1965) · Love Is Forever (1965) · When in Rome (1965) · Kinda Latin · Finders Keepers (1966, soundtrack) · Cinderella (1967, soundtrack) · Don't Stop Me Now (1967) · Good News (1967, gospel) · Cliff in Japan (1968, live) · Two a Penny (1968, soundtrack) · Established 1958 (1968) · Sincerely Cliff (1969)
1970s:
Tracks and Grooves (1970) · All My Love (1970) · About the Man (1970, gospel) · His Land (1970, gospel) · Cliff: Live at the Talk of the Town (1970, live) · The 31st February Street (1974) · Take Me High (1974, soundtrack) · Help It Along (1974, gospel) · I'm Nearly Famous (1976) · Every Face Tells a Story (1977) · Green Light (1978) · Small Corners (1978, gospel) · Rock 'n' Roll Juvenile (1979) · Thank You Very Much (1979, live)
1980s:
I'm No Hero (1980) · Wired for Sound (1980) · Now You See Me... Now You Don't (1982, gospel) · Silver (1983) · Dressed for the Occasion (1983, live) · The Rock Collection (1984)  · Always Guaranteed (1987) · Stronger (1989)
1990s:
From a Distance: The Event (1990, live) · Together with Cliff Richard (1991) · The Album (1993) · Songs from Heathcliff (1995, stage show album) · Heathcliff Live (1996, stage show album, live) · Real as I Wanna Be (1998)
2000s:
Wanted (2001) · Live at the ABC Kingston, 1962 (2002, live) · Cliff at Christmas (2003) · Something's Goin' On (2004) · Cliff Richard - The World Tour (2004, live) · Two's Company The Duets (2006) · Love... The Album (2007, Part new songs, part compilation) · Reunited – Cliff Richard and The Shadows (2009)
2010s:
Bold as Brass (2010) · Soulicious (2011)
EPs (UK)
Serious Charge  · Expresso Bongo
Compilations (UK)
Cliff's Hit Album (1963) · More Hits by Cliff (1965) · The Best of Cliff (1969) · The Best of Cliff, Vol. 2 (1972) · 40 Golden Greats (1977) · Love Songs (1981) · Walking in the Light (1984) · Private Collection: 1979-1988 (1988) · My Kinda Life (1992) · The Hit List (1994) · At the Movies 1959-1974 (1996) · Yesterday, Today, Forever (1997, gospel) · The Whole Story: His Greatest Hits (2000) · Miss You Nights: The Ballads Collection (2004) · The Platinum Collection (2005) · And They Said It Wouldn't Last (My 50 Years in Music) (2008) · The 50th Anniversary Album (2008) ·
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