Private Revolution is the 1986 debut album by the British rock band World Party

World Party

World Party is a British 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:...

. 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

Anthony Thistlethwaite

Anthony "Anto" Thistlethwaite is a British multi-instrumentalist best known as a founder member of the folk-rock group The Waterboys and later as a long-standing member of Irish rock band The Saw Doctors.After a year busking in Paris, playing tenor saxophone around the streets of the Latin...

, Steve Wickham

Steve Wickham

Steve Wickham is an Irish musician described by Mike Scott as "the world's greatest rock fiddle player" and by New Musical Express as a "fiddling legend." Originally from Marino, Dublin, but calling Sligo home, Wickham has appeared on recordings by Elvis Costello, the Hothouse Flowers, Sinéad...

 and Sinéad O'Connor

Sinéad O'Connor

Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....

. Several other musicians listed in the credits are actually whimsically named pseudonyms for Wallinger himself (listed under "Performers" below).

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

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an American singer-songwriter, musician, poet, film director and painter. He has been a major and profoundly influential figure in popular music and culture for five decades. Much of his most celebrated work dates from the 1960s when he was an informal chronicler and a seemingly...

.

1. Private Revolution (4:01)
2. Making Love (To the World) (2:30)
3. Ship of Fools
   Ship of Fools (World Party song)
   "Ship of Fools" is a rock song performed by World Party. It was written and produced by singer and multi-instrumentalist Karl Wallinger, formerly of The Waterboys. Wallinger is the sole member of World Party....
   
    (4:27)
4. All Come True (5:52)
5. Dance of the Hoppy Lads (0:44)
6. It Can Be Beautiful (Sometimes) (3:00)
7. The Ballad of the Little Man (5:02)
8. Hawaiian Island World (4:20)
9. All I Really Want to Do (4:43)
10. World Party (4:36)
11. It's All Mine (5:33)

Performers

• Karl Wallinger
  Karl Wallinger
  Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger is a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for leading the band World Party and for his mid-1980s stint in The Waterboys...
  
   — 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
  Sinéad O'Connor
  Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor is an Irish singer-songwriter. She rose to fame in the late 1980s with her debut album The Lion and the Cobra and achieved worldwide success in 1990 with a cover of the song "Nothing Compares 2 U"....
  
   — backing vocals ("Private Revolution", "Hawaiian Island World")
• Anthony Thistlethwaite
  Anthony Thistlethwaite
  Anthony "Anto" Thistlethwaite is a British multi-instrumentalist best known as a founder member of the folk-rock group The Waterboys and later as a long-standing member of Irish rock band The Saw Doctors.After a year busking in Paris, playing tenor saxophone around the streets of the Latin...
  
   — saxophone ("Ship of Fools")
• Will Towyn — sampling keyboards
• Steve Wickham
  Steve Wickham
  Steve Wickham is an Irish musician described by Mike Scott as "the world's greatest rock fiddle player" and by New Musical Express as a "fiddling legend." Originally from Marino, Dublin, but calling Sligo home, Wickham has appeared on recordings by Elvis Costello, the Hothouse Flowers, Sinéad...
  
   — violin

Charts

Album

Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
1987	The Billboard 200	39

Singles

Billboard (North America)

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1986	"Ship of Fools"	Mainstream Rock Tracks Mainstream Rock Tracks Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks is a ranking in Billboard magazine of the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that includes stations that play primarily rock music. Modern rock tracks are counted in the Alternative Songs chart.This chart began with the March 21, 1981, issue...	5
1987	"Ship of Fools"	The Billboard Hot 100	27

External links

• World Party Official Site
• Information on Private Revolution from Connolly & Company