What is "good fortune"

n. good luck

1. n. an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes [syn: good luck] [ant: misfortune, misfortune]

2. a stroke of luck [syn: good luck, fluke]

Good Fortune may refer to:

• Good Fortune (78 Saab album)
• Good Fortune (Brotherhood of Man album)
• Good Fortune (song), a song by PJ Harvey
• Good fortune

Good Fortune is the ninth album by British pop group Brotherhood of Man. The album was recorded on manager Tony Hiller's label, Dazzle Records in 1980, but went unreleased in the UK. The album did get a release however in Australia on RCA Records. Today the album is virtually impossible to get hold of and is considered to be the 'holy grail' among fans.

Good Fortune is a song by English alternative rock musician PJ Harvey. It is the second track and lead single from her fifth studio album Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea, and was released on 13 November 2000 on Island Records. The song was written by Harvey and self-produced with Mick Harvey and Rob Ellis.

Upon its release, "Good Fortune" received positive critical acclaim and charted in both France and the United Kingdom, peaking at number 100 and number 41 respectively. The song had an accompanying music video, directed by Sophie Muller.

Good Fortune is the fourth and final album by Australian rock band 78 Saab, released in 2010.

The album came three years after its predecessor, The Bells Line, during which time frontman Ben Nash said the band had been drifting and procrastinating. The catalyst for a return to songwriting and recording was the death of a photographer friend in 2008, which inspired the song "Warm Jets". Nash told Beat magazine: "We were going through a difficult time as a band anyway. We didn't really talk about things, we just internalised a lot of stuff lyrically, maybe that's why the album is a bit darker than usual. But when you have a close friend that passes away or issues on the home front, it makes you realise how fleeting life can be and how important it is to grab those opportunities. You just may not be here next month. As soon as that hit home for us, we realised we still had a purpose as a band and we'd been coasting around for too long. We knew we were capable of walking into the rehearsal room and punching out a couple of good songs - so we decided to do that and concentrate completely."

Nash said "Warm Jets" was built around the friend who died and his love of photography, "but the trick was to write this song about a mate passing away, though without sounding too heavy-handed. In the end I was happy with the way the message is conveyed—it's still uplifting at the same time as touching."

He said the album's title was a recognition that the band had "really had good fortune in that we are still mates with a good body of work behind us as a band. From day one the philosophy has always been that you're in charge of your own destiny. It's amazing when you think that we started out in Canberra back in 1996 after winning a band competition. Once the band managed to find its own identity and its true sound - that was the most exciting experience ever. When you start putting together quality songs you realise that this is no longer an illusion, you're a real band. It's that moment of, 'wow, we're really onto something here.'"