Always Guaranteed

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Always Guaranteed
Studio album by Cliff Richard
Released September 1987
Recorded October – November 1986, RG Jones Recording Studios/Wimbledon
Genre Pop
Label EMI
Producer Alan Tarney
Cliff Richard chronology
The Rock Connection (1984) Always Guaranteed (1987) Private Collection: 1979–1988 (1988)

Always Guaranteed is an album by Cliff Richard which was released in 1987. It reached #5 on the UK Albums Chart and sold 1.3 million copies worldwide.[1][2] Four songs were released as singles - "My Pretty One" #6, "Some People" #3 (Certified Silver in UK for 250,000 sales), "Remember Me" #35 and "Two Hearts" #34.

The album marked a strong chart comeback for Richard, giving him a second spell of success in the 1980s, which continued with "Mistletoe and Wine" as the single following on from "Two Hearts".

Contents

Track listing [edit]

# Song title Songwriter length
1 One Night Alan Tarney 4:31
2 Once Upon a Time Tarney 4:34
3 Some People Tarney 3:52
4 Forever Tarney 4:03
5 Two Hearts Tarney 4:10
6 Under Your Spell Chris Eaton 4:20
7 This Time Now Tarney 3:59
8 My Pretty One Tarney 3:58
9 Remember Me Tarney 3:54
10 Always Guaranteed Tarney 4:40
CD Re-issue: Bonus tracks
11 Under the Gun J.D. Martin, James Andrew Rushing 4:13
12 Brave New World Tarney 4:19
13 Wild Geese Jon Sweet, Rod Trott 4:39
14 Love Ya Richard 3:28
15 One Time Lover Man Richard 3:31
16 Another Christmas Day Richard 3:08
17 Yesterday, Today, Forever Richard 3:36
18 Reunion of the Heart Maldwyn Pope 4:24

Chart positions [edit]

Chart (1987/88) Position
Australian Albums Chart 6
Austrian Albums Chart 23
German Albums Chart 9
New Zealand RIANZ Albums Chart[3] 3
Swedish Albums Chart 49
Switzerland[4] 21
UK Albums Chart[2] 5
Country Provider(s) Certification Sales/Shipments
Australia[5] ARIA Platinum 70,000+
Austria[6] IFPI No Certificate 8,000+
Denmark IFPI Platinum 30,000+
Germany IFPI No Certificate 40,000+
New Zealand[3] RIANZ Gold 10,000+
Sweden IFPI No Certificate 5,000+
Switzerland[4] IFPI No Certificate 25,000+
UK[7] BPI Platinum 300,000+

References [edit]

  1. ^ "BBC review". BBC Music. Retrieved 14 February 2012. 
  2. ^ a b "UK charts archive". Retrieved 14 February 2012. 
  3. ^ a b "New Zealand Certification (RIANZ)". Recording Industry Association of New Zealand. Archived from the original on 4 May 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2007. 
  4. ^ a b "Swiss Certification (IFPI)". IFPI. Archived from the original on 15 April 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2007. 
  5. ^ "Australian Certification (ARIA)". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 13 June 2007. Retrieved 12 May 2007. 
  6. ^ "Austrian Certification (IFPI)". International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. Archived from the original on 18 May 2007. Retrieved 7 May 2007. 
  7. ^ "UK Certification (BPI)". British Phonographic Industry. Retrieved 14 February 2012. 

External links [edit]

Cliff Richard
Albums (UK)
1950s:
1960s:
1970s:
1980s:
  • I'm No Hero (1980)
  • Wired for Sound (1981)
  • Now You See Me... Now You Don't (1982, gospel)
  • Silver (1983)
  • Dressed for the Occasion (1983, live)
  • The Rock Collection (1984)
  • Always Guaranteed (1987)
  • Stronger (1989)
1990s:
  • From a Distance: The Event (1990, live)
  • Together with Cliff Richard (1991)
  • The Album (1993)
  • Songs from Heathcliff (1995, stage show album)
  • Heathcliff Live (1996, stage show album, live)
  • Real as I Wanna Be (1998)
2000s:
2010s:
EPs (UK)
  • Serious Charge
  • Expresso Bongo
Compilations (UK)
Filmography
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