Walking Back to Happiness

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Walking Back to Happiness
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Live album (mini-album)by
John Cooper Clarke
Released1979
RecordedLive, 1979
Genre Spoken word
Label Epic
Producer Martin Hannett
John Cooper Clarke chronology
Disguise in Love
(1978)		Walking Back to Happiness
(1979)		 Snap, Crackle & Bop
(1979)
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Walking Back to Happiness is the third album by John Cooper Clarke, released in 1979.

Contents

Description

All of the tracks on the album were recorded live, with the exception of the final track, "Gimmix", which 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.

Walking Back to Happiness is the third album by Clarke. [2] It was originally released on 10" clear vinyl in 1979, [3] and long out of print.

Track listing

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

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Notes

  1. ↑ "Album Reviews: John Cooper Clarke — Walking Back to Happiness" (PDF). Music Week . Gwent: Pensord Press Ltd. 23 June 1979. p. 40. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 May 2024. Retrieved 28 March 2025– via WorldRadioHistory.com.
  2. ↑ "Walking Back to Happiness ". All Music, Retrieved 30 April 2016
  3. ↑ "Walking Back To Happiness (1979)". JJC official site; 13 December 2009
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