''A Child's Adventure'' is the ninth studio album by British singer

Marianne Faithfull Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull (29 December 1946 – 30 January 2025) was an English singer and actress who achieved popularity in the 1960s with the release of her UK top 10 single " As Tears Go By". She became one of the leading female art ...

, released on

Island Records Island Records is a multinational record label owned by Universal Music Group. It was founded in Jamaica by Chris Blackwell, Graeme Goodall, and Leslie Kong in 1959, and was eventually sold to PolyGram in 1989. Island and A&M Records, another ...

in 1983.

Background and recording

After two albums with Mark Mundy as producer, Marianne Faithfull recorded ''A Child's Adventure'' without a separate producer; the album was produced by backing musicians Wally Badarou and Barry Reynolds and engineer Harvey Goldberg. In an interview following the album's recording, she remarked, "On this album, because we didn't have a producer as such, we could really work closely together on the finer bits - the harmonics, which a producer often doesn't have the time for." Faithfull had been performing "She's Got a Problem", a poem written by Caroline Blackwood and put to music by Faithfull's then-husband Ben Brierley, since 1978.

Track listing

Personnel

* Marianne Faithfull – vocals * Barry Reynolds – vocals, guitar * Ben Brierley – vocals, guitar * Wally Badarou – vocals, keyboards * Mikey Chung – guitar * Fernando Saunders – bass * Terry Stannard – drums * Rafael de Jesus – percussion

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Childs Adventure, A 1983 albums Marianne Faithfull albums Albums produced by Wally Badarou Island Records albums