Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Cooking and music obviously a theme lately. World Party's "Put The Message In The Box" came on tonight - what a great song. Got me wondering about what Karl Wallinger is up to. I know he has been unwell - is he on the mend? It would be nice to get a catch up in The Word on him - a hugely talented man.
Celebrity VIP Lounge (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Comedian Chris Kattan is 39. Artist Peter Max is 72. Actor John Lithgow is 64. Singer Jeannie C. Riley is 64. Singer Patrick Simmons of The Doobie Brothers is 61. Talk-show host Charlie Chase is 57. Singer-keyboardist Karl Wallinger of World Party is 52. Singer Jennifer Holliday is 49. TV host Ty Pennington (”Extreme Makeover: Home [...]
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
Celebrity birthdays for the week of Oct. 18-24:
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 09/07/2009
Karl Wallinger brings his World Party to Bumbershoot.
country love songs lyrics (Free subscription) | 08/25/2009
The first single was followed by a surprisingly strong debut album, entitled “Life Thru a Lens. However Angels song had even made Robbie Williams reach the top rank. Robbie was born 13 February 1974 in Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire, England. Williams was the cheeky chappie in hugely successful boy band Take That, and at the [...]
TexasLiberal (Free subscription) | 05/31/2009
Above is the video for the song “Ship of Fools” by World Party. The song is from 1987. If you’re old enough, you likely recall the song and the video. The lyrics say–” I don’t want to sail with this ship of fools.” The song is about economic and environmental exploitation. The lyrics also say–”You’re gonna pay tomorrow.” Here are the...
Stop Okay Go (Free subscription) | 04/24/2009
- It's quite a shame that the clean and easy-to-navigate World Party website, designed by Slender Fungus, hasn't been updated in the past year. The last new news about World Party, (which isn't really a band as much it is...
John Gushue . . . Dot Dot Dot (Free subscription) | 01/14/2009
Karl Wallinger's solo project got extended with hired hands for concerts and, evidently, videos. A Facebook friend asked for a tune so, by request, sort of, here it is - a single from 1990, I'm recalling, with a hook and chanted chorus ripped right from the Rolling Stones catalogue, circa the Jimmy Miller era.
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 12/03/2008
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Wolfgangs Vault (Free subscription) | 11/21/2008
Listen to World Party performed at Warfield Theatre on September 10, 1990
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 08/14/2008
Almost eighteen years in the making, 'Big Blue Ball' grew from three extraordinary Recording Weeks at Real World Studios in the summers of 1991, 1992 and 1995. The project's originators and curators were Real World founder Peter Gabriel and Karl Wallinger ...
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