Good Morning Revival is the fourth album by Good Charlotte and the follow up to the 2004 release The Chronicles of Life and Death.
The album’s original release date was June 2006, but was was pushed back to October, after which it was pushed back further to February 2007. Lead singer Joel Madden said in an interview with MuchMusic that the album release has been pushed back once more to March 5, 2007. On December 6, 2006, the band’s website said that the album would now be released March 20, 2007. Days later the band posted a new message on their website saying that the album would be released March 27, 2007. However, "Top20 Music" reported on March 18 that the album was fully avaliable for download on the UK iTunes Music Store. (The album was leaked in its entirety – with two bonus tracks – on March 14, 2007. )
On Good Charlotte’s website, Benji Madden posted a video and announced that the song "Keep Your Hands Off My Girl" would be posted on the band’s MySpace. The song premiered September 22nd, 2006 online and it is available now to hear at the band’s MySpace[3] account and at the Good Charlotte website. Later, a video for the song was posted in the band’s MySpace page on October 26th, 2006. The first single from the album, The River, featuring Avenged Sevenfold’s lead singer, M. Shadows and guitarist Synyster Gates, appeared online January 4th, 2007.
At midnight, on January 23rd, the forthcoming record was made available for preorder on iTunes. When pre-ordered, the single, "The River" is downloaded immediately, while the rest of the album is queued to be downloaded on the released date. Preordering on iTunes also provided the exclusive bonus version of the aforementioned single, and a music video of an acoustic session of the song, "Misery".
Recorded in 2006. Length 44:27. Label Epic Records/Daylight Records. Producer(s) Don Gilmore.