Simple Minds and Billy Ocean both appear in shorter edits that have appeared in the intervening years. You will notice the sticker on the front sleeve stating that there’s a bonus track contained therein. m.) to get acccess to all the albums, but I stopped precisely because so many songs were either missing or not the version they originally used.

The Special Editions series includes a wide range of Now anniversary collections, different music genres, eras, and decades, as well as commercial tie-ins with Smash Hits, Disney, Eurovision, HMV and the Official Chart Company. Album opener Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer is the precise mix used on the original Now 7 cassette with opening intro and vocal fade out. The frequency in which they were released also varied from year to year; initially, and most frequently across the series, there would be one Now Dance volume per year, but in 1994 for example, there were four volumes released, and in 1996, there weren't any Now Dance compilations released. Now Dance 92 (2 November 1992) Uniquely, 2-LP/2-MC/CD* with 12" mixes,*single CD with abridged tracklisting and 7" edits.Through the release of Now 90 on 30 March 2015, the release date in Ireland was three days before the UK release.

Initially, a special edition of a Now compilation was quite rare, and between 1994 and 2002, there weren't any released at all. Elsewhere The Housemartins finally make a breakthrough with the infectious Happy Hour [their third single after the lack of success for Flag Day and Sheep]. All series with the exception of United Kingdom and the United States have been discontinued, New Zealand had two more albums released as a playlist only on Spotify, South Africa had three more albums released as a playlist on Spotify under DJ Kurtis. We managed to get David Bowie and Eurythmics who’d refused permission for the first one and ended up striking a deal with Queen on the agreement that they would appear in the TV ad and be the first track on the album. While the Hits team at CBS and WEA put out their fourth instalment in March 1986, the subsequent months were quiet with no Now Dance or new entrants into the market.Some hipsters I know have removed the ‘i’ from ‘Going’ in some sort of ironic and chinstroking prog rock stunt.

Condition - This item is in Excellent condition or better (unless it says otherwise in the above description). While other countries had started truncated CD releases a couple of years earlier, their selections also could be a little random.

s last single ‘The Edge of Heaven’, Bowie‘s ‘Absolute Beginners’, a-ha‘s ‘Hunting High and Low’, Simply Red‘s ‘Holding Back The Years’ and ‘bonus track’ Queen‘s ‘A Kind of Magic’. Jaki Graham’s Set Me Free makes me want to dance till I drop and is her third successive appearance.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The latter contains a new retro-70s Now logo design and artwork which complements its 80s sister Yearbook series. The military theme is continued with ex-Wall of Voodoo man Stan Ridgway’s Nam-twanging Camouflage which is expertly slotted after Max Headroom and The Art of Noise’s sleep-pleading Paranoimia. additional programming: Stephen Lipson and James McMillan ( arranger) programming: Oskar Paul ( producer, engineer and programmer) additional producer: Stephen Lipson producer: C. first reissued 2009 for the 25th anniversary, then again 20 July 2018 to coincide with Now 100) re-issued on 2CD (gatefold in 2009, jewel case in 2018), audio cassette, and a 2LP vinyl release.Great blog though, as I’ve been going through my old 80s compilations recently, this is essential reading for me. The series is then moved forward again, with the release of Now Yearbook 1992 in July 2023 (an Extra followed in August). The first two volumes were not released on compact disc, and all subsequent releases were either single, double, or triple disc sets.