It has been some time since you have been able to buy the hits of John Paul Young but they are about to go back in store.
Albert Productions is about to release the compilation ‘I Hate The Music’ featuring the hits of John Paul Young.John Paul Young was discovered by Simon Napier-Bell, manager of The Yardbirds, T. Rex and Wham, who was in Australia and heard JPY in a Newcastle pub.
Napier-Bell produced his first hit song ‘Pasadena’. It reached no. 16 in Australia. Young would eventually score 12 top 40 hits in Australia during his career.
Young went on to have international successes in Europe and South Africa. He clocked up four top ten hits in South Africa.
The tracklisting for ‘I Hate The Music’ is:
St Louis
Pasadena (16)
If I Could Live My Life Again
I Hate The Music (2)
I Wanna Do It With You (7)
Keep On Smilin’ (15)
The Next Time
The Love Game (4)
Where The Action Is (33)
Yesterday’s Hero (8)
Standing In The Rain (12)
Love Is In The Air (3)
Heaven Sent (53)
Soldier of Fortune (17)
65 33 54
Don’t Sing That Song
Happy The Man
Isn’t It Sunshine
They missed ‘The Day That My Heart Caught Fire, no 20 in 1978). Maybe they are hoping for a Volume 2?
