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Goodbye Jumbo is the second studio album by Welsh-British alternative rock band World Party, released in May 1990 on Ensign Records.. The album received generally positive reviews from critics and peaked at No. 73 on the US Billboard 200 and No. 36 on the UK Albums Chart.
Relocating to a 32-track studio in London (which he called "Seaview"), Wallinger began work on the second World Party album, Goodbye Jumbo. [2] [3] As with Private Revolution, he played almost all of the instruments himself. [2] In 2000, recalling his songwriting aims at the time, Wallinger explained "I wanted to personify the world and sing ...
In December 1985, Chambers joined The Waterboys, touring with them on a tour supporting Simple Minds until the end of the year. [2] [3] Chambers joined World Party in 1986.He co-wrote "Love Street" with Karl Wallinger, who he had replaced in The Waterboys, on the band's album Goodbye Jumbo.
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It was released at the first single for their 1990 album, Goodbye Jumbo. The song contains a nod to "Sympathy for the Devil" by the Rolling Stones. [1] When released as a single in 1990, the song topped the US Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, reached No. 21 on the Album Rock Tracks chart, and peaked at No. 10 in the Netherlands.
Wallinger was born on 19 October 1957, in Prestatyn, Wales, to Julian and Phyllis Wallinger, and was one of six children. [2] His father was an architect. [4] He showed musical promise from an early age, immersing himself in the music of the Beatles (notably studying Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and attempting not only to sing the words but to vocally recreate all of the sounds on the ...
World Party. Karl Wallinger — vocals, guitars, bass, sampling keyboards, drum programming; with: Delahaye — drums, percussion (possibly a pseudonym for Wallinger, or for Mike Scott - this is an alias also used on several Waterboys albums)
While previous World Party albums were essentially solo projects by multi-instrumentalist Karl Wallinger, for this album World Party officially became a three-person group: Wallinger (vocals, keyboards, guitars, basses, etc.), David Catlin-Birch (guitars), and Chris Sharrock (drums).