''You've Got to Laugh'' is the seventh studio album by the English singer

Nik Kershaw Nicholas David Kershaw (born 1 March 1958) is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He came to prominence in 1984 as a solo artist. He released eight singles that entered the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart during the decade, i ...

, released on 26 October 2006 under his own record label. Initially, the album was only available for purchase online vi
his web site
through his own studio, Shorthouse Records. The album is currently available for digital download via

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. In a 2008 interview, Kershaw spoke of the album. "''You've Got to Laugh'' took about five years to get together. That wasn't intense recording, obviously. I just waited until I'd got enough tracks and that was the time to release it. Had it not been for my girlfriend, it probably wouldn't have been released at all. The songs are all about my own experiences or those of people around me; they're about friends and foes; they're about real life, which means there's nothing too glamorous going on". No songs from the album were released as singles. At the end of the CD sleeve, there is a dedication note to Kershaw's late father, Douglas John Kershaw (24 February 1920 – 30 July 2005). The holding page on the official Nik Kershaw website had an instrumental in-work version of the closing track "You Don't Have to Be the Sun".

Track listing

All songs written by

Credits

Credits adapted from

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. Personnel *

– vocals, guitars, keyboards, programming * Stuart Ross - bass (tracks 5-7, 9, 12) * Nick Beggs – bass, Chapman Stick (tracks 2-4, 11) * Julian Brown – drums (tracks 2-6, 8-9) * Simon Phillips – drums (tracks 1, 7, 11) *

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– backing vocals (tracks 5, 8, 12) * Lily Gonzalez – backing vocals (tracks 1-4, 11) Production * Julian Brown's drums recorded by Mark "Tufty" Evans at Wispington Studios * Tracks 8 & 12 mixed by Mark "Tufty" Evans at Wispington Studios * Mastered by Simon Heyworth at Super Audio Mastering, Devon * Published by Zomba Music Artwork * Graphic Design by Aurile Ltd. * Main cover artwork by Frank Renlie * Photography by Kim Zumwalt

References

External links

Lyrics for all tracks on this album (scroll down to the bottom to see links to them)
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