Performance · Production
Wreckless Eric
United Kingdom • b. 1954-05-18
Wreckless Eric is credited on 225 releases across 66 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1977–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
225
Pressings credited
66
Albums
6
Decades active
37
In collections
Biography
Eric Goulden (born 18 May 1954), known as Wreckless Eric, is an English rock and new wave singer-songwriter, best known for his 1977 single "Whole Wide World" on Stiff Records. More than two decades after its release, the song was included in Mojo magazine's list of the best punk rock singles of all time. It was also acclaimed as one of the "top 40 singles of the alternative era 1975–2000".
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Credited work
225 releases · 66 albums · active 1977–2024
- Performance · 390
- Production · 27
- Other credits · 14
- Engineering · 9
Studios: The Church, London · Dierks Studios · Nas Nuvens · Britannia Row Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Wreckless Eric
1978
Pink Strat
2009
That Summer!
1979
Live Stiffs Live
1978
Learning English, Lesson One
1991
Big Smash!
1980
The Old Guys
2018
Anarchy In The UK - 30 Years Of Punk - Volume 1
2007
Whole Wide World · You're So Square
1998
The Stiff Years
1994
The Whole Wide World
1979
Reconnez Cherie
1978
The Donovan Of Trash
1993
The Wonderful World Of Wreckless Eric
1978
Whole Wide World
1977
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Die Toten Hosen
- Eppu Normaali
- This Perfect Day
- Laptop
- The Blockheads
- Dump
- Dogs
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