Happiness (The Beloved album)

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Happiness
Studio album by The Beloved
Released	1990
Genre	Pop, Acid House
Label	East West Records (UK) Atlantic Records (USA)
Producer	Paul Stavely O'Duffy, Martin Phillips
Professional reviews
All Music Guide Link
The Beloved chronology
Where It Is (1987) Happiness (1990) Chilled Out (1990)

Happiness is a 1990 album from British Pop band The Beloved.

Having slimmed down from a four piece to a duo comprising Jon Marsh and Steve Waddington in 1987 following the departure of original members Tim Havard and Guy Gausden, Marsh and Waddington soon fell under the influence of the burgeoning Acid House scene emerging in London at the time from clubs such as Shoom. The duo changed their style from the New Order influenced synthpop and took in influences from Acid House, Pop and Techno.

The change in style proved to be their commercial breakthrough as the album yielded three top 40 UK singles, The Sun Rising #26, Hello #19 and Your Love Takes Me Higher #39. The album reached #14 on the UK albums chart on its release in March 1990 and subsequently reached #154 on the Billboard Top 200 albums.

[edit] Track listing

All songs by Jon Marsh unless stated.

1. Hello
2. Your Love Takes Me Higher (Jon Marsh, Steve Waddington)
3. Time After Time
4. Don't You Worry
5. Scarlet Beautiful
6. The Sun Rising (Jon Marsh, Steve Waddington)
7. I Love You More
8. Wake Up Soon
9. Up, Up And Away
10. Found

[edit] Personnel

• Jon Marsh - Keyboards, Vocals, Rhythm
• Steve Waddington - Guitar, Keyboards
• Kym Mazelle - Vocals
• Daniel Abraham - Engineer
• Paul Staveley O'Duffy - Producer, Engineer
• Martin Phillipps - Programming, Producer, Engineer