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Line-Up Ex-Members Albums Singles Various Refers
CHINA CRISIS
Liverpool, GB
*  1981

Line-Up (1983):

Garry Daly - voc,kb
Eddie Lundon - g,voc
Gazza Johnson - bg
Robert Lythgoe - kb
Gary O'Toole - ds
Steve Levy - sax

Former Members:

Michael Douglas (kb,synths, cca 11/82); Brian McNeil (kb, 1983)
Dave Reilly (ds, cca 2/82); Kevin Wilkinson (ds, cca 11/82)

Albums Discography:

#TitleRelease DateLabelTypeUKUSA
1.Difficult Shapes And Passive Rhythms, Some People Think It's Fun To Entertain
produced by: China Crisis/Steve Levine/Pete Walsh
11/1982 Virgin21
2.Working With Fire And Steel31.10.1983Virgin20
3.Flaunt The Imperfection
produced by: Walter Becker
5/1985 Virgin9 171
4.What Price Paradise11/1986 Virgin63 114
5.Diary Of A Hollow Horse5/1989 Virgin58
6.The China Crisis Collection
(2CD)
8/1990 Virgin32
7.Diary - A Collection1992
8.Warped By Success1994 Stardumb
9.Acoustically Yours9/1995 Telegraph
10.Wishful Thinkin'1998 Recall
11.Wishful Thinking: The China Crisis Spectrum Collection17.06.2014Spectrum Music

Singles Discography:

#SP/EP TitleRelease DateLabelUKUSA
1.African And White / Be Suspicous05.02.1982Inevitable
2.Scream Down At Me / Cucumber Garden07.05.1982Virgin
3.African And White / Red Sails
12" + Be Suspicious
7/1982 Virgin45
4.No More Blue Horizons (Fool, Fool, Fool) / No Ordinary Lover
12" + Watching Over Burning Fields
15.10.1982Virgin
5.Christian / Greenacre Bay / Performing Seals14.01.1983Virgin8
6.Tragedy And Mystery / A Golden Handshake For Every Daughter13.05.1983Virgin46
7.Working With Fire And Steel / Dockland
12" + Forever I and I
03.10.1983Virgin48
8.Wishful Thinking / This Occupation
12" + Some People I Know To Lead Fantastic Lives
03.01.1984Virgin7
9.Hanna Hanna / African And White (live)
12" + Here Comes A Raincloud
27.02.1984Virgin44
10.Black Man Ray / Animalistics (A Day At The Zoo)3/1985 Virgin11
11.King In The Catholic Style (Wake Up) / Blue Sea5/1985 Virgin15
12.You Did Cut Me
12" + Christian
7" + Seven Sports For All (live)
8/1985 Virgin54
13.The Highest High / 96.8
12" + Orange Mutt Mutt Dance
11/1985 Virgin82
14.Arizona Sky / Trading In Gold10/1986 Virgin47
15.Best Kept Secret / The Instigator
12" + Little Italy
CD + Black Man Ray / You Did Cut Me / Arizona Sky
1/1987 Virgin32
16.Black Man Ray / Animalistics (A Day At The Zoo) / Hampton Beach6/1988 Virgin
17.Christian / Wishful Thinking11/1988 Old Gold
18.Black Man Ray / King In The Catholic Style (Wake Up)11/1988 Old Gold
19.St. Savior's Square / Back Home3/1989 Virgin81
20.Red Letter Day / Diary Of A Hollow Horse
12",CD + Strength Of Character
5/1989 Virgin84
21.Every Day The Same / Tell Me What It Is01.08.1994Stardumb

Various:

Compilation Appearances:

"King In A Catholic Style" on compilation "Mersey Boys And Liverpool Girls: The Sounds From The Mersey 1978-2001" (2.4.01, EMI)

Press References:

Melody Maker
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
1982606.02.198219Singlessingle review
1982820.02.198211interview
19821327.03.198237Caught In The Actgig review
19821908.05.198223Singlessingle review
19821908.05.198231Caught In The Actgig review
19821908.05.198233Datelines
19824216.10.198223Singlessingle review
19824720.11.198221Albumsalbum review
19824904.12.198217interview
1983315.01.198319Singlessingle review
1983819.02.19838interview
19832014.05.198323Singlessingle review
19832304.06.198316It's Alivegig review
19834001.10.19834Fast Forward - Record News
19834108.10.198322Singlessingle review
19834429.10.19834Fast Forward - Record News
19834612.11.19836interview
19834612.11.198323Albumsalbum review
19834719.11.198322It's Alive - Tour Dates
19835010.12.198316It's Alivegig review
19835224.12.19836Fast Forward - Record News
1984214.01.198418Singlessingle review
1984504.02.198416interview
1984718.02.198416It's Alive!gig review
1984825.02.19844Fast Forward - Record News
1984903.03.198426Singlessingle review
19841621.04.198418It's Alivegig review
19943106.08.199431Singlessingle review
Rock & Pop
YearIssueDatePageColumnType
20025 7Co víme, povímediscography