How to Be a...Zillionaire!

by ABC

How to Be a...Zillionaire! cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1985
  • Label: Mercury
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:09:52
  • Community rating: 2.77/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Skip McDonald, Jackie Challenor, Mae McKenna, Don Snow, Mark White, Alan Carvell, Guy Barker, David Williams, Lorenza Johnson, Brad Lang, Martin Fry

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Following a rocky period of shifting band members and declining commercial reception, frontman Martin Fry radically restructured the group's sound around heavy, dance-oriented electronics. 'How to Be a...Zillionaire!' heavily utilizes the newly available Fairlight CMI synthesizer to construct deeply artificial, beat-driven synthpop arrangements peppered with early digital sampling. The distinctly cartoonish, ultra-modern aesthetic successfully yielded the massive international hit 'Be Near Me.'

Genres

Descriptors: sampling

Tracklist

  1. Fear Of The World (3:50)
  2. Be Near Me (3:39)
  3. Vanity Kills (3:29)
  4. Ocean Blue (3:33)
  5. 15 Storey Halo (5:34)
  6. A To Z (2:49)
  7. How To Be A Millionaire (3:35)
  8. Tower Of London (3:39)
  9. So Hip It Hurts (4:19)
  10. Between You And Me (3:20)
  11. How To Be A Trillionaire - Harajuku Mix (3:36)
  12. What's Your Destination (3:36)
  13. Vanity Kills - U.S.A. Remix (5:38)
  14. Vanity Kills - Abigails Party Mix (5:10)
  15. Ocean Blue (3:38)
  16. Judy's Jewels (2:01)
  17. Fear Of The World - In Cinemascope (4:41)
  18. Tower Of London - Instrumental (3:38)

Credits

  • ABC - primary artist, artwork
  • Keith Breeden - artwork
  • Keith Leblanc - drum programming [beatbox programming], drums
  • David Yarritu - performer
  • Eden - performer
  • Don Snow - piano, synthesizer
  • Gary Moberley - sampler [fairlight c.m.i.], sampler [fairlight guitar solo], arranged by [gundigai brass]
  • Jackie Challenor - backing vocals

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