Life & Rhymes

Life & Rhymes
Studio album by
Gilbert O'Sullivan
ReleasedOctober 1982
RecordedWindmill Lane Recording Studios, Dublin, Eire
GenrePop
Length39:56 (46:55 with bonus tracks)
LabelCBS
ProducerGraham Gouldman
Gilbert O'Sullivan chronology
Off Centre
(1980)		 Life & Rhymes
(1982)		 Frobisher Drive
(1987)

Life & Rhymes is the seventh studio album by Irish singer-songwriter Gilbert O'Sullivan, released in October 1982.

The album was produced by Graham Gouldman of 10cc and featured several musicians of various 10cc lineups: Paul Burgess, Vic Emerson and Duncan Mackay. Gouldman relocated to record the album: “Graham came over here to Ireland...We did the album here; Graham’s just great! We meet up every now and then, and we got him onstage to play bass for ‘Nothing Rhymed’ in the United Kingdom. A great bass player, and a great songwriter; all those things he wrote for the Yardbirds were great.”

Union Square Music re-released it in August 2012 on the Salvo label as part of the Gilbert O'Sullivan – A Singer & His Songs collection.

Track listing

All songs written by Gilbert O'Sullivan.

  1. "Live Now Pay Later" – 3:03
  2. "Bear With Me" – 3:22
  3. "You Don't Own Me" – 3:38
  4. "A Minute of Your Time" – 3:40
  5. "Is It a Crime?" – 2:54
  6. "Got To Be That Way" – 3:15
  7. "Has Been" – 2:51
  8. "I Promise Honest" – 3:25
  9. "Wonder Why" – 3:15
  10. "Looking (A Tale of Two Meanings)" – 3:16
  11. "If I Know You" – 4:06
  12. "At Least I'm Honest" – 3:09

Bonus tracks on the 2012 remaster

  1. "Don't Bother At All" (b-side of "Bear With Me") – 3:26
  2. "In Other Words" (b-side of "A Minute of Your Time") – 3:33

Personnel

Sources

  1. ↑ "Gilbert O'Sullivan Is 'On the Record' and Being Irish". 16 October 2026.