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What Price Paradise is the fourth studio album by English new wave group China Crisis. It was released on CD, LP and Cassette in 1986. The CD version featured one bonus track: "Trading in Gold", originally released on the B-side of the "Arizona Sky" single.

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What Price Paradise
Studio album by China Crisis
Released	24 November 1986 (1986-11-24)[1]
Recorded	Summer 1986
Studio	The Manor Studio, Shipton-on-Cherwell, Oxfordshire and Westside Studios, London
Genre	New wave
Length	45:36
Label	Virgin
Producer	Clive Langer, Alan Winstanley
China Crisis chronology
Flaunt the Imperfection (1985) What Price Paradise (1986) Diary of a Hollow Horse (1989)
Singles from What Price Paradise
"Arizona Sky" Released: 13 October 1986[2] "Best Kept Secret" Released: 12 January 1987[3]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[4]

A three CD deluxe edition of the album was released in January 2022. As well as a remaster of the original album, it also featured B-sides, previously unheard four-track demos and a 1987 live performance at the Liverpool Empire.[5]

Track listing

All tracks written by Gary Daly, Gary "Gazza" Johnson, Eddie Lundon, Brian McNeill and Kevin Wilkinson, except where stated.

1. "It's Everything" – 5:09
2. "Arizona Sky" – 5:24
3. "Safe as Houses" – 4:26
4. "Worlds Apart" (Daly, Johnson, Lundon, McNeill, Wilkinson, Kevin Kelly) – 3:35
5. "Hampton Beach" – 4:47
6. "The Understudy" – 5:45
7. "Best Kept Secret" – 4:08
8. "We Do the Same" – 4:21
9. "June Bride" – 3:50
10. "A Day's Work for the Dayo's Done" – 4:17
11. "Trading in Gold" – 4:27 (Only appears on the CD version)

Personnel

China Crisis

• Gary Daly – vocals
• Eddie Lundon – guitar, vocals
• Brian McNeill – synthesizer, vocals
• Gary "Gazza" Johnson – bass
• Kevin Wilkinson – drums, percussion

with:

• Stuart Nisbet - guitar
• Gary Barnacle - saxophone, flute
• Luke Tunney - trumpet, flugelhorn
• Pete Thoms - trombone
• Martin Ditcham - percussion
• Davie Dover, John Lewis - backing vocals
• David Bedford - string arrangements, conductor

References

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