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World Party's music is hard to categorise, being a tuneful but sophisticated pop and rock combination, with elements of folk, funk, R n B and soul thrown in. Wallinger sings and plays most of the instruments himself, using multitracking to create a polished studio sound. Lyrically, many of the songs feature thoughtful and occasionally political sentiments. The first album was Private Revolution, released in 1987, which yielded a moderate hit, Ship of Fools, but it wasn't until the follow up, Goodbye Jumbo ( 1990) that World Party came to more widespread notice. This album yielded two significant hits - Put the Message in the Box and Way Down Now. Goodbye Jumbo was voted album of the year by Q magazine. The third album, Bang! ( 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic.) was an even bigger success, reaching number 2 in the UK album chart, with the track Is It Like Today? also being a successful single. Egyptology ( 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan) was a fourth album, but did not do so well commercially. The album Dumbing Up was released in 2000This page is about the year 2000. See 2000 AD for the UK comic book, Number 2000 for other uses. 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar), and also the International Year for a Culture of Peace''. Events Y2K passes without the seri. World Party occasionally tours, with Wallinger and a band formed using session musicians.

Wallinger's musical career began in the 1970sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s Years: 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Events and trends with a couple of unsuccessful bands, after which he became musical director of The Rocky Horror ShowThe Rocky Horror Show was a long running stage musical (in London initially, on June 16, 1973) which inspired the movie The Rocky Horror Picture Show''. It was written by Richard O'Brien, who returned to his native England after growing up in New Zealand.. He joined The Waterboys from 1983-86. While working on his World Party material, he also worked on Sinéad O'ConnorSinead O'Connor (born December 8, 1966) is an Irish pop singer and songwriter. Her biggest hit single was "Nothing Compares 2 U", a cover of a song written by Prince, and arranged for her by him. She was born in Glenageary, a suburb of Dublin in the Repub's 1987 debut album The Lion and the Cobra - Sinéad also sings some backing vocals on the World Party track Sweet Soul Dream. Wallinger was also musical director for the 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an film Reality Bites, and also contributed to the soundtrack of Clueless, 1996. Most recently, Wallinger has written hit songs for others, most notably She's The One for Robbie Williams (another Williams hit, Angel was written by Guy Chambers, who was originally with World Party).

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