Private Revolution

Studio album by World Party

Released

1986

Genre

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World Party chronology

Private Revolution
(1986)

Goodbye Jumbo
(1990)

Private Revolution is the 1986 debut album by the British rock band World Party. At this point, singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Karl Wallinger 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, Steve Wickham and Sinéad O'Connor. Several other musicians listed in the credits are actually whimsically named pseudonyms for Wallinger himself (listed under "Performers" below).

1 Track listing
2 Performers
3 Charts
4 External links

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.

Private Revolution (4:01)
Making Love (To the World) (2:30)
Ship of Fools (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)

Performers

Karl Wallinger — vocals, guitars, bass, sampling keyboards
Delahaye — percussion
Rufus Dove — electric guitars
Martin Finnucane — harp ("Dance of the Hoppy Lads")
Ahmed Gottlieb — sitar and tabla
Millennium Mills — piano
Sinéad O'Connor — backing vocals ("Private Revolution", "Hawaiian Island World")
Anthony Thistlethwaite — saxophone ("Ship of Fools")
Will Towyn — sampling keyboards
Steve Wickham — violin

Charts

Album

Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1987	The Billboard 200	39

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