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Life and Rhymes

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Released
  
October 1982

Artist
  
Gilbert O'Sullivan

Producer
  
Graham Gouldman

Genre
  
Pop music

Life & Rhymes(1982)
  
In the Key of G(1989)

Release date
  
October 1982

Label
  
Union Square Music

Recorded
  
Windmill Lane Recording Studios, Dublin, Eire

Length
  
39:56 (46:55 with bonus tracks)

Similar
  
Singer Sowing Machine, Irlish, A Stranger In My Own Back Yard, Off Centre, Back to Front

Life & Rhymes is Irish-English singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan's seventh studio album, produced by Graham Gouldman and originally released in October 1982. Union Square Music re-released it in August 2012 on the Salvo label as part of the Gilbert O'Sullivan – A Singer & His Songs collection.

Contents

Track listing

All songs written by Gilbert O'Sullivan.

  1. "Live Now Pay Later" – 3:03
  2. "Bear With Me" – 3:22
  3. "You Don't Own Me" – 3:38
  4. "A Minute of Your Time" – 3:40
  5. "Is It a Crime?" – 2:54
  6. "Got To Be That Way" – 3:15
  7. "Has Been" – 2:51
  8. "I Promise Honest" – 3:25
  9. "Wonder Why" – 3:15
  10. "Looking (A Tale of Two Meanings)" – 3:16
  11. "If I Know You" – 4:06
  12. "At Least I'm Honest" – 3:09

Bonus tracks on the 2012 remaster

  1. "Don't Bother At All" (b-side of "Bear With Me") – 3:26
  2. "In Other Words" (b-side of "A Minute of Your Time") – 3:33

Personnel

  • Gilbert O'Sullivan – vocals, piano, electric piano, synth
  • Graham Gouldman – all guitars, bass, backing vocals, percussion
  • Paul Burgess – drums, percussion
  • Vic Emerson – electric piano, synth
  • Pete Wingfield – electric piano, synth, melodica
  • Tessa Webb – backing vocals
  • Bim Sinclair – synth, organ
  • Bud Sinclair – percussion
  • Duncan Mackay – organ
  • Lenny – sax
  • Orchestra arranged and conducted by Richard Niles

    • Songs

    1Live Now Pay Later3:03
    2Bear With Me3:22
    3You Don't Own Me3:38

    References

    Life & Rhymes Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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