Private Revolution

Private Revolution is the debut album by the Welsh-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.

Track listing

Personnel

• Karl Wallinger — vocals, guitars, bass, keyboards, sampling, drum programming

with:

• Rufus Dove — guitars (probably a pseudonym for Wallinger - pun on "rufous dove")
• Will Towyn — sampling keyboards (probably a pseudonym for Wallinger - pun on "will to win")
• Delahaye — drums, percussion (possibly a pseudonym for Wallinger, or for Mike Scott - this is an alias also used on several Waterboys albums)
• Millennium Mills — piano (probably a pseudonym for Wallinger - name taken from Millennium Mills building in London Docklands)
• Ahmed Gottlieb — sitar and tabla (probably a pseudonym for Wallinger)

• Sinéad O'Connor — backing vocals
• Steve Wickham — violin
• Martin Finnucane — harp (probably a pseudonym for Wallinger - this is the name of a character in the Flann O'Brien novel The Third Policeman)
• Anthony Thistlethwaite — saxophone
• Rear cover monoprint — Edward Durdey
• Cover photographs — Steve Wallace assisted by Mathew Stevens
• Design — Stephanie Nash and Josh Riley

Charts

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