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2 unusual facts about World Party


World Party

In 1994, World Party recorded "When You Come Back to Me" for the Reality Bites soundtrack influenced by David Bowie's 1975 song, "Young Americans".

After a stint as musical director of a West End performance of The Rocky Horror Show, Wallinger joined a funk band dubbed "The Out", before signing on with Mike Scott's Waterboys in 1984 to record the album A Pagan Place.


The Immediates

In 1997 Frank Dunne executive produced the album 'Now and In Time to Be' (Grapevine), a compilation of W.B. Yeats poems made into songs by artists such as Van Morrison, The Cranberries, World Party, The Waterboys, Christy Moore and Shane McGowan.


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Ainsley Harriott

The son of pianist Chester Harriott, whose cousin was free jazz alto saxophonist Joe Harriott, his talents also lay in comedy and singing as well as cooking and Harriott formed the Calypso Twins with schoolfriend Paul Boross, releasing a hit record in the early 1990s, "World Party".

EastSiders

Thom, Cal, Kathy and Ian all attend an "End of the World" party hosted by party promoter, Quincy (Stephen Guarino).

Workers World Party

In more recent years the Workers World Party has been controversial for its support of many things that other communist parties of similar political roots very strongly oppose: These include the regimes of Slobodan Milosevic, Saddam Hussein, and Kim Jong-il; also, the WWP supported the Chinese crackdown on the “counter-revolutionary rebellion” in Tiananmen Square.