Fate for Breakfast
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{{Infobox album
| name = Fate for Breakfast
| type = studio
| artist = Art Garfunkel
| cover = Fate for Breakfast album cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = March 15, 1979
| recorded = 1979
| venue =
| studio =
| genre = Soft rock
| length = 36:44
| label = Columbia
| producer = Louie Shelton (except "Bright Eyes" produced by Mike Batt)
| prev_title = Watermark
| prev_year = 1977
| next_title = Scissors Cut
| next_year = 1981
| misc = {{Singles
| name = Fate for Breakfast
| type = studio
| single1 = Bright Eyes
| single1date = 1979
}}
}}
{{Music ratings
| rev1 = AllMusic
| rev1Score = {{Rating|2|5}}{{AllMusic|class=album|id=fate-for-breakfast-mw0000204036|first=William|last= Ruhlmann|accessdate=2011-10-10}}
| rev2 = Rolling Stone
| rev2Score = (Not Favorable){{citation|author-link=Ken Tucker|last= Tucker|first= Ken|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509062715/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/artgarfunkel/albums/album/129711/review/5943709/fate_for_breakfast|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/artgarfunkel/albums/album/129711/review/5943709/fate_for_breakfast|archive-date=2008-05-09 |date=1979-06-28|accessdate=2008-05-09|title=Music Reviews : Fate for Breakfast by Art Garfunkel|url-status=dead|magazine=Rolling Stone}}
|rev3 = The Rolling Stone Album Guide
|rev3score = {{rating|2|5}}{{cite book |title=The Rolling Stone Album Guide |date=1992 |publisher=Random House |pages=272, 273}}
}}
Fate for Breakfast is the fourth solo studio album by Art Garfunkel, released in March 1979 on Columbia Records.
It was his first album to miss the U.S. Billboard Top 40 (charting at 67) and his first album containing no U.S. Top 40 singles. Yet the album garnered international success, reaching the top-ten in some European countries. The European release includes "Bright Eyes", which was featured in the film version of the novel Watership Down, and reached the number-one spot in the United Kingdom, becoming the biggest-selling single of 1979 there.
The album was issued in six different sleeves, each with a different shot of Art Garfunkel at the breakfast table. David Sanborn covered "And I Know" entitled "Love Will Come Someday" for his 1982 album As We Speak. Also on the album is a cover of Cliff Richard's 1976 hit "Miss You Nights".
Track listing
{{Track listing
| headline = Side 1
| title1 = In a Little While (I'll Be on My Way)
| writer1 = Dennis Belfield
| length1 = 3:27
| title2 = Since I Don't Have You
| writer2 = Joe Rock, Jimmy Beaumont, Lennie Martin, Janet Vogel, John Taylor, Joseph Verscharen, Walter Lester
| length2 = 3:39
| title3 = And I Know
| writer3 = Michael Sembello, David Batteau
| length3 = 3:40
| title4 = Sail on a Rainbow
| writer4 = Stephen Bishop
| length4 = 3:45
| title5 = Miss You Nights
| writer5 = Dave Townsend
| length5 = 3:47
}}
{{Track listing
| headline = Side 2
| title6 = Bright Eyes
| note6 = Not included on U.S. album release
| writer6 = Mike Batt
| length6 = 4:00
| title7 = Finally Found a Reason
| writer7 = Michael Sembello, David Batteau, Craig Bickhardt, Rick Bell
| length7 = 2:41
| title8 = Beyond the Tears
| writer8 = Jeffrey Comanor, Robert Gundry
| length8 = 3:53
| title9 = Oh How Happy
| writer9 = Charles Hatcher
| length9 = 2:41
| title10 = When Someone Doesn't Want You
| writer10 = Jeffrey Staton
| length10 = 3:34
| title11 = Take Me Away
| writer11 = Grant Gullickson, Lance Gullickson
| length11 = 4:04
}}
Personnel
- Art Garfunkel – vocals, harmony vocals
- Penny Nichols, Bobby Alessi, Carolyn Dennis, Leah Kunkel, Jimmy Gilstrap, Billy Alessi, Maxine Anderson – background vocals
- Stephen Bishop – guitar, background vocals
- Michael Brecker, Tom Scott – tenor saxophone
- Rob Mounsey – synthesizer, piano, clavinet, Fender Rhodes, keyboards
- Chris Spedding – acoustic guitar on "Bright Eyes"
- Gene Page – arranger
- Simon Phillips, Steve Gadd, Roy J. Morgan, Mike Baird – drums
- Louis Shelton – acoustic guitar, backing vocals
- Dennis Belfield, Lyle Harper, Les Hurdle, Neil Jason – bass guitar
- Ray Cooper, Errol "Crusher" Bennett, Alan Estes, Lyle Forman – percussion
- Edwin Roxburgh – oboe
- Roland Harker – lute
- Larry Knechtel – piano
- Del Newman – string arrangement
- Lee Ritenour, Richie Zito, Hugh McCracken – electric guitar
- Larry Rolando – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
- Jeffrey Staton – acoustic guitar, background vocals
- Richard Tee – piano, Fender Rhodes
Charts
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{{Certification Table Entry|title=Fate for Breakfast|type=album|artist=Art Garfunkel|region=United Kingdom|award=Gold|id=2232-2696-2|relyear=1979|certyear=1979|access-date=April 2, 2022}}
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