World (album)

Infobox Album | Name = World
Type = Studio album
Artist =


Released = August 10, 1995
Recorded = 1994 - 1995
Route Studios
(recording)
Matrix Recording Studios, Sarm West
(mixing)
Genre = electronic
pop
synthpop
dance
ballad
Label = Magnet Records / Warner Bros. Records
Producer =
& Tom Frederikse
for FXU Management
Length = 48:53
Last album = ""
(1993)
This album = "World"
(1995)
Next album = ""
(1997)

World was the second and last studio album by British synthpop / dance band , released in 1995, two years after their debut album, "", which was out in late 1993.

Overview

Both were published by Magnet Records label, distributed by Warner Music major, and managed by FXU Management (some songs being published by EMI Publishing and Pumphouse Songs Inc.), and both got to Number 5 in the UK Albums Chart. Unlike the somehow luckier first album, which produced no less than 7 different singles, some re-releases and tons of remixes, only three singles (and a limited number of alternative versions) were taken out of this album. The first, "Shoot Me with Your Love", was the only one which made it to the Top Ten, getting to Number 7. The second, "Party Up the World", including, within its own title, the name of the whole album - "World", was a Top 20, peaking exactly at Number 20. The third, latest and last new single released by was the song called "The Power (Of All the Love in the World)", again including the name of the whole album - "World", this time within its own sub-title, and featuring T.J. Davis on co-lead vocals, along with the band's lead singer, Peter Cunnah. This song was only a minor hit or, according to the group's previous standards, a flop, which didn't get no higher than Number 40.

The very last single ever released by D:Ream, before the project was ultimately shelved by leader Peter Cunnah, was in fact the second re-release of the band's only UK Number 1 hit, "", which was adopted by the UK Labour Party as their theme for the 1997 UK General Election, getting to Number 19 in the UK Top 75. The re-release was followed by the group's first greatest hits album, "", that their label, in agreement with Cunnah, who decided to end his one mand band, preferred to issue, instead of the group's third studio album, which was to be entitled "Heap of Faith", and was never so far released.

World was mostly written, arranged, played and produced by Peter Cunnah himself, with the collaboration of some other musicians and vocalists on some tracks. In particular, the album features T.J. Davis on background vocals on all tracks (besides co-lead vocals on the second single off the long playing), as well as Simon Ellis from Ellis, Beggs & Howard, and Nick Beggs, a former member of Kajagoogoo, also from Ellis, Beggs & Howard. Ellis plays additional keyboards on "You've Saved My World" and "Heart of Gold", while Beggs plays bass guitar and his renowned chapman stick on "Hold Me Now".

Track listing

#"The Power (Of All the Love in the World)" featuring T.J. Davis - 4:55 (Peter Cunnah)
#"Shoot Me with Your Love" - 4:12 (Peter Cunnah/Tim Hegarty)
#"You've Saved My World" - 5:09 (Peter Cunnah/Al Mackenzie)
#"The Miracle" - 4:20 (Peter Cunnah)
#"Call Me" - 5:22 (Peter Cunnah)
#"Enough Is Enough" - 4:43 (Peter Cunnah)
#"You Can't Tell Me You Cannot Buy Me Love" - 4:59 (Peter Cunnah)
#"Party Up the World" - 4:43 (Peter Cunnah/Peer)
#"Hold Me Now" - 4:53 (Peter Cunnah/Jamie Petrie)
#"Heart of Gold" - 5:37 (Peter Cunnah)

Credits

*Peter Cunnah: lead vocals, all instruments
*Derek Chai: background vocals tracks 1, 2, 3, 8, 9; additional bass tracks 3, 10; additional guitar track 8
*Nicole Patterson: background vocals tracks: 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10
*TJ Davis: co-lead vocals track 1; background vocals tracks 2 to 10
*James Mack: additional LP percussion, Zildjian cymbals tracks 2, 3, 10
*Jools Holland: piano track 2
*Mark Roberts: additional drums track 3
*Simon Ellis: additional keyboards tracks 3, 10
*Nick Beggs: bass guitar, Chapman Stick track 9
*Simon Bates: Yamaha wind synth track 9
*, Tom Frederikse for FXU: production
*Mike Diver: photography and digital manipulation
*Blue Source: sleeve

Release details

External links and references

* [http://www.d-ream.net www.d-ream.net] : D:Ream's Official Website
* [http://www.discogs.com/release/572941 Discogs] : "World" album details with links to all performers
* [http://www.everyhit.com EveryHit.com] : UK Top 40 Database

*Paul Gambaccini, Tim Rice, Jonathan Rice (1995), "British Hit Singles", Guinness Publishing