China Crisis - Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms: Some People Think It's Fun ToEntertain

Digitally remastered and expanded two CD edition of the Liverpool band's 1982 album. The bonus CD includes non-album tracks, radio sessions and more. Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms Some People Think It's Fun to Entertain spent 17 weeks on the UK Albums Chart and peaked at #21 in February 1983. The album includes the singles "African And White", "No More Blue Horizons" and "Christian". China Crisis were formed in 1979 in Kirkby, near Liverpool, Merseysidewith a core of vocalist/keyboardist Gary Daly and guitarist Eddie Lundon. They were part of a wave of new Liverpool acts in the late 1970s and early 1980s, led by OMD and also including Echo and the Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes, A Flock of Seagulls and Frankie Goes to Hollywood. China Crisis had moderate success in the United Kingdom in the 1980s with five Top 40 singles and three Top 40 albums. The band also achieved a modest level of commercial success in Western Europe and Australia, and some minor chart successes in the Americas.