Released 1989 Length 49:40 Label EMI Music Australia | Recorded 1989 Release date 1989 Genre World music | |
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Producer Hilton Rosenthal and Bobby Summerfield Cruel, Crazy Beautiful World
(1989) Heat, Dust And Dreams
(1993) Artists Johnny Clegg, Johnny Clegg and Savuka Similar Johnny Clegg and Savuka albums, World music albums | ||
Johnny clegg savuka cruel crazy beautiful world
Cruel, Crazy Beautiful World is a studio album from South African artist Johnny Clegg and his band Savuka.
Contents
- Johnny clegg savuka cruel crazy beautiful world
- Cruel crazy beautiful world johnny clegg savuka live at zenith paris
- Track listing
- Personnel
- Additional personnel
- Songs
- References
Released in 1989 and produced by Hilton Rosenthal and Bobby Summerfield, it is today recognized as probably the band's greatest album, containing hits such "Dela" and "Cruel, Crazy Beautiful World". The title track is addressed and dedicated to Clegg's son Jesse, born in 1988, who is depicted on Clegg's shoulders on the album cover. The song "One (Hu)'Man One Vote" was written in honor of David Webster, a friend of Johnny Clegg and anti-apartheid activist who had been assassinated three weeks earlier. The lyrics of "Warsaw 1943" were inspired from the works of Polish author Czesław Miłosz.
In 1997, the song "Dela (I Know Why The Dog Howls at the Moon)" was released on the soundtrack of Disney's George of the Jungle.
Cruel crazy beautiful world johnny clegg savuka live at zenith paris
Track listing
All songs written by Johnny Clegg except as noted.
- "One (Hu)' Man One Vote" (Johnny Clegg, Bobby Summerfield)
- "Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World"
- "Jericho"
- "Dela (I Know Why the Dog Howls at the Moon)"
- "Moliva"
- "It's an Illusion"
- "Bombs Away"
- "Woman Be My Country"
- "Rolling Ocean" (Clegg, Steve Mavuso)
- "Warsaw 1943 (I Never Betrayed The Revolution)"
- 'Vezandlebe"
Personnel
Additional personnel
Songs
1One (Hu)' Man One Vote
2Cruel Crazy Beautiful World4:25
3Jericho4:17