Happiness

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Recorded with producers Paul Staveley O'Duffy and Martyn Phillips, Happiness exemplifies the Beloved's new house-styled dance-pop material, becoming one of the first albums to fuse house and pop music, and features optimistic lyrics that helped it fit in with the hedonism of the UK's contemporary music scene and the Second Summer of Love. Aided by four charting singles, including the group's breakthrough hit—the ambient-styled " The Sun Rising"—and their first Top 20 success in " Hello", Happiness reached number 14 on the UK Albums Chart and number 154 on the US Billboard 200 chart. It also received critical acclaim, and numerous magazines ranked the album among the greatest of the year. a b c d Doerschuk, Robert L. (September 1990). "The Beloved on Hot House Grooves & Happiness". Keyboard. Vol.16, no.9. pp.26–27 . Retrieved 29 January 2019. The reissue has taken one of the best ever recordings and squashed/compressed it way too much which has reduced overall dynamic range. Official Dance Albums Chart Top 40 | Official Charts Company". Official Charts Company . Retrieved 1 September 2020. a b Paphides, Peter (6 June 2017). "Pete Paphides (06/06/2017)". Mixcloud . Retrieved 8 September 2020.

A second Peel session followed in October 1985 and soon afterwards their first single, "A Hundred Words", was released in April 1986. A summation of this stage of their career can be found on a compilation album, Where It Is, which is a compilation of previously released material, consisting of singles and related B-sides, pressed onto one individual long playing work. The record includes all the early singles, "A Hundred Words", "This Means War", the double A-side "Surprise Me" / "Forever Dancing" and the EP "Happy Now", all released throughout 1986 and 1987, all making the top 30 in the UK Indie Chart, [3] and all failing in the UK Singles Chart. [4] Change in direction and Happiness [ edit ] dutchcharts.nl > The Beloved in Dutch Charts" (in Dutch). Hung Medien . Retrieved 16 September 2016.

a b c "British certifications – Beloved". British Phonographic Industry . Retrieved 12 July 2023. Type Beloved in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter. Robert Smith's merry men jumped on the dance bandwagon with this album of remixes, which bore a hit in the baggied-up version of the classic Close To Me. Chart placings are from the UK Singles Chart and UK Albums Chart, [11] except those marked *, which are from the UK Indie Chart. [3] Albums [ edit ] Year

Martyn Phillips is a London-based award-winning producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, recording engineer and mix specialist, helping craft the sounds of artists such as Londonbeat, Erasure, The Beloved, Swing Out Sister, Lisa Stansfield, and many more. The New York club act released their most famous album, which include the monster dancefloor hit Groove Is In The Heart. According to a commonly known account of the band's formation, Jon Marsh placed an advertisement in the music press in 1983, which read as follows:

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Tim Burgess released his debut album, which featured the single Then and the live favourite Sproston Green. Later editions included the dancefloor hit The Only One I Know. The Best Albums Of 1990". Radio X. Archived from the original on 28 December 2017 . Retrieved 29 January 2019. Sadly the postal services round the world have been swamped and caught out by the COVID19 pandemic - It's been like double Holiday / Christmas service with reduced staff in most territories. This delay and chaos has hit services in North America especially badly. So we have switched all shipments ex UK via UPS.