Walking Back to Happiness

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Walking Back to Happiness
Live album (mini-album) by
Released1979
RecordedLive, 1979
GenreSpoken word
LabelEpic
ProducerMartin Hannett
John Cooper Clarke chronology
Disguise in Love
(1978)
Walking Back to Happiness
(1979)
Snap, Crackle & Bop
(1979)

Walking Back to Happiness is the third album by John Cooper Clarke,[1] originally released on 10" clear vinyl in 1979,[2] and long out of print. All tracks were recorded live, with the exception of the final track, "Gimmix", was re-recorded in studio and became a UK top 40 hit that year. The penultimate track refers to The Marble Index a 1969 album by Nico.

Track listing[edit]

All tracks written by John Cooper Clarke

  1. "Gaberdine Angus" - 1:15
  2. "Majorca" - 2:28
  3. "Bronze Adonis" - 2:22
  4. "Spilt Beans" - 2:22
  5. "Twat" - 2:24
  6. "The Pest" - 2:16
  7. "Nothing" - 0:42
  8. "Limbo" - 4:21
  9. "Who Stole the Marble Index?" - 1:22
  10. "Gimmix Play Loud" - 3:26

Personnel[edit]

with:

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Walking Back to Happiness ". All Music, Retrieved 30 April 2016
  2. ^ "Walking Back To Happiness (1979)". JJC official site; 13 December 2009

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