Good Times is the debut and only album by the British actor and pop artist Adam Rickitt, released in 1999.
[1] After leaving the soap opera Coronation Street, Rickitt signed a £100,000 six-album deal with Polydor Records.
For his first effort he contributed to the composition of several songs, something unusual for a pop music artist more oriented towards teenagers.
[8][9] Rickitt composed most of the songs, something that was highlighted in some media outlets,[10] in an interview he said: "Well, I've written about half the album.
[10] He also commentend in an interview to the Evening Mail newspaper: "[I] worked with some top people like Todd Terry and Ray Hedges.
[12] The label rejected the request, arguing that they had invested too much money in recording the album and would need a financial return.
[9] The singer revealed that the popstar's life had turned out to be worse than he imagined: "I knew pop music especially was going to be pretty hollow," he says.
[9] After the success of the album in the country, the record company rejected the idea of breaking the contract with the singer, which was broken only after a legal process.
Murthi from Malasian New Straits Times newspaper, considered the album "lushly-arranged dance-pop that's not so much bad as utterly boring".
[14] Although the single " Everything My Heart Desires", peaked at #15 in the same week of the album release, Good Times failed to get the top 40.