The Best of Prefab Sprout: A Life of Surprises

~ Release by Prefab Sprout (see all versions of this release, 3 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
# Title Rating Length
1 The King of Rock ’n’ Roll
4:25
2 When Love Breaks Down
3 4:10
3 The Sound of Crying
4:44
4 Faron Young
3:47
5 Carnival 2000
3:23
6 Goodbye Lucille #1 (Johnny Johnny)
5 4:28
7 I Remember That
4:16
8 Cruel
5 4:20
9 Cars and Girls
4:27
10 We Let the Stars Go
3:36
11 Life of Surprises
5 4:05
12 Appetite
5 3:57
13 If You Don’t Love Me
3:44
14 Wild Horses
5 3:42
15 Hey Manhattan!
4:46
16 All the World Loves Lovers
3 3:51

Credits

CD 1

bass guitar:
Martin McAloon (track 8)
strings:
Gavyn Wright (track 15)
strings arranger:
John Altman (track 15)
Wil Malone (track 13)
drums:
Graham Lant (track 8)
brass:
The Phantom Horns (track 5)
percussion:
Luis Jardim (tracks 5, 9, 14–16)
keyboard:
Thomas Dolby (tracks 1, 7)
Gary Hughes (keyboardist) (track 11)
Gary Moberley (track 9)
Prefab Sprout (track 9)
Andy Richards (Strawbs keyboard player/record producer) (track 15)
Paul Wickens (track 9)
guitar family and keyboard:
Paddy McAloon (track 8)
additional mixer:
Stephen Lipson (track 16)
additional producer:
Stephen Lipson (track 16)
assistant engineer:
Paul Cuddeford (tracks 5, 14, 16)
Derek McCartney (tracks 5, 14, 16)
Adrian Moore (recording engineer) (tracks 5, 14, 16)
Chris Puram (Mix Engineer) (tracks 5, 14, 16)
Charlie Smith (production) (tracks 5, 14, 16)
Karen White (tracks 5, 14, 16)
Mark Williams (Engineer) (tracks 5, 14, 16)
background vocals:
Wendy Smith (British musician, formerly with Prefab Sprout) (track 8)
composer:
Paddy McAloon (tracks 1–16)
conductor:
John Altman (track 15)
engineer:
Heff Moraes (tracks 3, 13, 16)
Jon Anderson Turner (track 8)
guest acoustic guitar:
Pete Townshend (of The Who) (track 15)
lead vocals:
Paddy McAloon (tracks 1, 7–9, 15)
lyricist:
Paddy McAloon (tracks 1–16)
mastering:
George Marino (tracks 1, 7, 9, 15)
mixer:
Thomas Dolby (tracks 4, 6, 12)
Eric Calvi (tracks 5, 14, 16)
David Leonard (US producer and engineer) (tracks 1, 7)
Richard Moakes (track 9)
Tony Philips (track 15)
Lance Phillips (track 11)
Mike Shipley (tracks 4, 6, 12)
Richard Digby-Smith (track 11)
producer:
David Brewis (track 8)
Thomas Dolby (tracks 1, 4–7, 12, 14, 16)
Jon Kelly (track 9)
Stephen Lipson (track 13)
Prefab Sprout (tracks 8, 11)
Andy Richards (Strawbs keyboard player/record producer) (track 15)
Phil Thornalley (track 2)
Paddy McAloon (tracks 9, 15)
recording engineer:
Richard Digby-Smith (track 11)
Paul Gomersall (tracks 5, 14, 16)
John Timperley (track 15)
remixer:
Thomas Dolby (track 2)
spoken vocals:
Jenny Agutter (tracks 5, 14)
vocals:
The Andraé Crouch Singers (track 7)
phonographic copyright by:
Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd. (not for release label use! pre-Aug 2004 subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Inc.) (tracks 1, 13)
Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd. (not for release label use! pre-Aug 2004 subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment Inc.) (1988) (track 11)
publisher:
EMI Blackwood Music Inc. (tracks 5, 10, 14, 16)
EMI Songs Ltd. (tracks 1–2, 5, 10–11, 13–14, 16)
Kitchen Music Ltd. (tracks 5, 10–11, 14, 16)
SBK Songs Ltd. (track 11)
remixes:
If You Don’t Love Me (Deep Field mix) by Prefab Sprout (track 13)
If You Don’t Love Me (Stateside mix) by Prefab Sprout (track 13)
recording of:
All the World Loves Lovers (track 16)
Appetite (track 12)
Carnival 2000 (track 5)
Cars and Girls (track 9)
Cruel (track 8)
Faron Young (track 4)
Goodbye Lucille #1 (track 6)
Hey Manhattan! (track 15)
I Remember That (track 7)
If You Don't Love Me (track 13)
The King of Rock ’n’ Roll (track 1)
The Sound of Crying (track 3)
We Let the Stars Go (track 10)
When Love Breaks Down (track 2)
Wild Horses (track 14)
Life of Surprises (1985) (track 11)