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Whenever You Need Somebody

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Released
  
16 November 1987

Studio
  
PWL Studios (London)

Artist
  
Rick Astley

Label
  
RCA Records

Recorded
  
1986–87

Length
  
39:52

Release date
  
16 November 1987


Producer
  
Stock Aitken Waterman, Phil Harding, Ian Curnow, Daize Washbourn

Whenever You Need Somebody (1987)
  
Hold Me in Your Arms (1988)

Genres
  
Pop music, Dance-pop, Adult contemporary music

Similar
  
Rick Astley albums, Pop music albums

Whenever you need somebody 1987 full album


Whenever You Need Somebody is the debut studio album by British recording artist Rick Astley released on 16 November 1987 on RCA Records. It is his best-selling album and, according to his own official website, sold 15.2 million copies worldwide. The album is listed as the #136 best-selling album in Spain, and was the #7 best-selling album in the UK in 1987.

Contents

A remastered version, containing all remixes, was released in 2010. In 1989, he received a nomination for Best New Artist at the 31st Grammy Awards.

Personnel

  • Rick Astley: lead vocals, guitar (8 & 9)
  • Matt Aitken: guitars & keyboards (1-4, 6, 10)
  • Mike Stock: keyboards (1-4, 6, 10)
  • "A. Linn": LinnDrum programming (1-4, 6, 10)
  • Ian Curnow: keyboards (5 & 7), Fairlight programming
  • Gary Barnacle: saxophone (7)
  • Daize Washbourn: keyboards & drums (8 & 9)
  • Dee Lewis, Shirley Lewis, Mae McKenna & Suzanne Rhatigan: backing vocals

    • Production

  • Producers: Stock Aitken Waterman (tracks 1-4, 6 & 10); Phil Harding & Ian Curnow (tracks 5 & 7); Daize Washbourn (tracks 8 & 9).
  • Mixed by Pete Hammond (tracks 1, 2, 3, 6 & 8); Mark McGuire (tracks 4 & 10); Phil Harding (tracks 5 & 7).
  • Senior Engineer: Mark McGuire
  • Assistant Engineers: Boky, Gordon Dennis, Jonathan King, Peter Day & Yoyo.
  • Additional Engineering: Jamie Bromfield, Mike Duffy, Karen Hewitt & Phil Harding.
  • Mastered by Noel Summerville
  • Arrangements on "When I Fall In Love": Gordon Jenkins
  • Photography: Paul Cox
  • Sleeve Design: Mainartery (London, UK)

    • Songs

    1Never Gonna Give You Up3:29
    2Whenever You Need Somebody3:57
    3Together Forever3:29

    References

    Whenever You Need Somebody Wikipedia
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