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Mar 12, 2024 · In 1990, World Party’s Goodbye Jumbo heralded a restoration of ’60s pop values and promised the big time for its eccentric auteur, Karl Wallinger. But the obsessiveness that made a masterpiece could have cost him his life, and a “horribly clandestine” flit by his band didn’t help.
The Woman’s Boat is a conceptual work about the female life cycle: life, love, birth of a child, death. For men I think it’s life, love, work, death. Of course, I’m not suggesting that’s a hard template or anything, but women write songs about childbirth more often than men.
World Party. Karl Edmond De Vere Wallinger (19 October 1957 – 10 March 2024) was a Welsh musician, songwriter and record producer. He was best known for leading the band World Party and for his mid 1980s membership of the Waterboys (contributing in particular to the arrangement of their hit single "The Whole of the Moon").
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Mar 12, 2024 · Remembering Karl Wallinger, who died last Sunday. We had the pleasure to work with him when he visited the 2 Meter Sessions in April 1993 with his band World...
Mar 21, 2024 · Karl Wallinger, the visionary bandleader, singer, songwriter, composer, and all-around sonic Svengali of the alt-pop-leaning British collective known as World Party, sadly passed away on March 10, 2024, at the still young age of 66.
Mar 12, 2024 · Karl Wallinger, a singer and songwriter best known for his work in his band World Party, has died. He was 66. The Welsh musician was also known for his time in the folk-rock group The...
