Up (Right Said Fred album)
Up is the debut album by English pop group Right Said Fred, released in 1992 on Charisma Records and Tug Recordings. It contains the UK number-one hit "Deeply Dippy", which reigned for three weeks from April to May 1992, and the US number-one "I'm Too Sexy", which topped the charts for three weeks in February 1992.
Up is Right Said Fred's sole UK-number one album and was also their only US album release, where it peaked at number 46 on the Billboard 200.
Critical reception
In addition to "I'm Too Sexy", Arion Berger from Entertainment Weekly stated that the Up album has "relentless hooks, more goofy catchphrases, and camp sensibility coming out of its ears." He highlighted ”No One on Earth”, ”Do Ya Feel” and ”Deeply Dippy”, adding, "If Martians tried to approximate Earth music by channeling frivolous Top 40 like ABBA’s, overwrought cabaret like Liza Minnelli’s, and smart disco like the Pet Shop Boys’, the result might sound like Up. How all this would go over on Mars is hard to say; down here, it’s good-bad disposable pop." USA Today called the album "a collection of bubbly electronic disco."Track listing
- Track listing as above on sleeve but actual DVD contains "Stick It Out" instead of "Hands Up for Lovers".
Personnel
- Richard Fairbrass – lead vocals and backing vocals, bass
- Fred Fairbrass – guitars and backing vocals
- Rob Manzoli – electric guitar and backing vocals
- Phil Spalding – bass
- TommyD – synthesizers, sampler, arranger, producer and backing vocals
- Phil Taylor – piano
- Malcolm Duncan – saxophone
- Sid Gould – trombone
- Neil Sidwell – trumpet
- Chuck Sabo – drums
- Jocelyn Brown – backing vocals
- Lily D – backing vocals
- Graham Bonnett – backing vocals, engineer
- Massive Gut – backing vocals
- Juliet Roberts – backing vocals
- Nick Ingman – arranger and string arrangements
- Ian Craig Marsh – programming
- Brian Pugsley – programming
- Guy Holmes – executive producer
- John McDonnel – engineer
- Ronen Tal – engineer
- Donal – assistant engineer, assistant
- Andy Houston – assistant engineer
- Andy Smith – assistant engineer