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Biography
BLP sources|date=July 2010Infobox musical artist | name = World Party| image =| caption =| image_size =| background = group_or_band| alias =| origin = London , England | genre = pop music|Pop / alternative rock | years_active = 1986& ndash;present| label = Ensign Records|Ensign , Chrysalis Records|Chrysalis , Papillon Records|Papillon | associated_acts =| website = http://www.worldparty.net/ World Party website| current_members = Karl Wallinger | past_members =| notable_instruments = World Party is a United Kingdom|British pop music|pop / alternative rock band, which is essentially the solo project of its sole member, Karl Wallinger . He started the band in 1986 in London after leaving The Waterboys .
Career
After a stint as musical director of a West End theatre|West End performance of The Rocky Horror Show , Wallinger joined a funk band dubbed The Out, before signing on with Mike Scott (musician)|Mike Scott 's Waterboys in 1984 to record the album A Pagan Place . After 1985's This Is the Sea , Wallinger departed to form World Party.
Recorded at Wallinger's home in 1986, his debut album Private Revolution yielded two minor hit record|hits in the United Kingdom|UK , "Private Revolution" and " Ship of Fools (World Party song)|Ship of Fools ". "Ship Of Fools", however, did much better outside the UK — it reached no. 4 in Australia , no. 21 in New Zealand, and no. 27 in the United States|US , in the process becoming the act's only major international hit.
Between World Party's first and second albums, Wallinger aided Sinéad O'Connor in recording her 1988 debut, The Lion and the Cobra . O'Connor, then an unknown, had appeared as a guest on World Party's first album. She would go on to appear as a guest on the second LP as well.
Goodbye Jumbo , World Party's second album, contained the minor UK hit singles "Way Down Now" and "Put the Message in the Box". Wallinger collaborated with fellow songwriter Guy Chambers on some of the tracks. Goodbye Jumbo was voted "album of the year" by Q (magazine)|Q magazine and was nominated for a Grammy Award for "best alternative music performance" in the US.
After the 1991 Extended play|EP Thank You World (including a cover version|cover of The Beatles ' " Happiness Is a Warm Gun "), Wallinger recruited guitarist David Catlin-Birch and ex-Icicle Works drummer Chris Sharrock as fully-fledged members for 1993's hit album Bang& #33; (World Party album)|Bang! . It reached no. 2 in the UK Albums Chart , with the track "Is It Like Today? " (no. 19 on the UK Singles Chart ) also becoming a moderately successful single in Europe . The success of Bang! saw World Party in the line-up for the Glastonbury Festival .
In 1994, World Party recorded "When You Come Back to Me" for the Reality Bites soundtrack .
Their fourth album, Egyptology (album)|Egyptology (1997), written following the death of Wallinger's mother, was commercially disastrous, although " She's the One (World Party song)|She's the One " won an Ivor Novello Award and was subsequently recorded by Robbie Williams . Wallinger took a three-year break from World Party, before the release of Dumbing Up in 2000. However, in February 2001 he was struck down by an aneurysm that left him unable to speak.
After a long, five-year rehabilitation, in 2006 Wallinger re-emerged onto the scene. With his back catalogue reclaimed from EMI, a distribution deal was struck (via his own Seaview label) with Universal, and he played his first live show in a decade at the Austin, Texas -based South by Southwest festival. He played additional US dates in 2006. Big Blue Ball , a joint project with Peter Gabriel with production work by Stephen Hague (Pet Shop Boys, New Order) has also been released.
In September 2007, World Party supported Steely Dan in their first tour of Australia .
In 2011 the band returned to the South by Southwest festival to play a free concert in which they opened for Blue October . In 2012 World Party released a new five CD collection of new songs, live recordings and cover versions. Titled "Arkeology".
Music
Wallinger cites influences such as The Beatles , Bob Dylan , The Beach Boys , Junior Walker , Neil Young and Prince (musician)|Prince . He sings and plays most of the instruments himself, using multi-tracking to create the studio sound. Lyrically, many of his songs feature thoughtful and occasionally political sentiments.Citation needed|date=July 2010
Dumbing Up (2006) ( limited edition with bonus DVD )
Best in Show (2007) ( greatest hits compilation album|compilation )cite book
| first= Martin C. | last= Strong | year= 2000 | title= The Great Rock Discography | edition= 5th | publisher= Mojo Books | location= Edinburgh | page= 1084 | isbn= 1-84195-017-3cite book | first= David | last= Roberts | year= 2006 | title= British Hit Singles & Albums | edition= 19th | publisher= Guinness World Records Limited | location= London | isbn= 1-904994-10-5 | page= 610
Arkeology (World Party album)|Arkeology (2012)
Hit singles
"Ship of Fools" (February 1987): no. 42 ( UK Singles Chart|UK ), no. 4 ( Australia|AUS ); no. 27 ( Billboard Hot 100|US )
"Message in the Box" (May 1990): no. 39 (UK); no. 8 ( Alternative Songs|US Modern Rock )
"Way Down Now" (August 1990): no. 66 (UK), no. 1 (US Modern Rock)
"Thank You World" (April 1991): no. 68 (UK)
"Is It Like Today" (March 1993): no. 19 (UK); no. 52 ( Germany|GER ); no. 5 (US Modern Rock)
"Give It All Away": (July 1993): no. 43 (UK)
"All I Gave" (September 1993): no. 37 (UK)
"Beautiful Dream" (May 1997): no. 31 (UK)
"She's the One" (Nov 1999): no. 1 (UK) (when covered by Robbie Williams )
Other contributions
Acoustic 05 (2005, Echo) — "She's the One"
References
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