On October 15, 2007, “Fiction” label released “The World is Yours”, the fifth Ian Brown album. It was recorded in 2007, and was produced by Emile Haynie, Robert Maxfield, and Tim Wills.

Personnel:

• Ian Brown – vocals, guitar, keyboards, harmonica
• Tim Wills – guitar, piano, keyboards, programming, engineer, mixing
• Steve Davidson – guitar
• Tim Hutton – bass guitar, trumpet, trombone
• David Ayre – double bass
• Mary Scully – double bass
• Andrew Pask – double bass
• Matt Pegg – bass guitar
• Andy Rourke – bass guitar
• Paul Ryder – bass guitar
• Paul Cook – drums
• Emile Haynie – drums, programming, mixing
• Dave McCracken – drums, synthesizer, programming
• Inder Matharu – percussion
• William Lockhart – timpani
• Andy Ross – saxophone
• Michael Thompson – French horn
• Richard Watkins – French horn
• Mark Berrow – violin
• Boguslav Kostecki – violin
• David Woodcock – violin
• Liz Edwards – violin
• Emlyn Singleton – violin
• Gillian Findlay – violin
• Alison Kelly – violin
• Johnathan Rees – violin
• Christopher Tombling – violin
• Patrick Kiernan – violin
• Julian Leaper – violin
• Shelley Van Loen – violin
• Warren Zielinski – violin
• Christopher Clad – violin
• Cathy Thompson – violin
• Rachel Bolt – viola
• George Robertson – viola
• Bruce White – viola
• Peter Lale – viola
• Garfield Jackson – viola
• Ben Chappell – cello
• Martin Loveday – cello
• Caroline Dale – cello
• David Daniels – cello
• Caroline Dearnley – celli
• Frank Schaefer – celli
• Tony Pleeth – celli
• Skaila Kanga – harp
• Simon Hale – conductor, orchestral arrangements
• Sinéad O’Connor – backing vocals
• Rhianna Kenny – backing vocals
• Steve Price – engineer
• Mat Bartram – engineer assistant
• Raj Das – engineer assistant
• Howie Weinberg – mastering
• Benet Walsh – illustrations

Track listing:

1. The World Is Yours
2. On Track
3. Sister Rose
4. Save Us
5. Eternal Flame
6. The Feeding of the 5000
7. Street Children
8. Some Folks Are Hollow
9. Goodbye To the Broken
10. Me And You Forever
11. Illegal Attacks
12. The World Is Yours (reprise)