Our teacher then invited us to spare a thought for the poor bugger who had to slap a sticker on every damn sleeve! Simply Red and Nu Shooz appear in longer album versions than the radio edits that originally appeared. I reckon in another world the Queen track would have opened the album rather than being tagged on at the end of a side.

July 2019) re-issued on 2-CD - 28 tracks with only Bob Marley and the Wailers and Gary Glitter missing. Have only ever owned Now 7 on cassette and not vinyl so I’d be curious to find out, whilst the inlay doesn’t make any reference to the Queen track, does the label? These were all released on CD and magnetic cassette, but with the 1993 and 1994 volumes also being released on the vinyl format. Once again thanks for another really interesting response and for posting some text from your interview with Ashley Abraham. A further release, The Final Chapter, a deluxe 4-CD and 3-LP set, was issued in December 2022, rounding off the Yearbook years 1980 to 1984.album, from June to August in 1993, a series of ten, 40-track yearly collections were released on CD and cassette (but not vinyl), covering the years 1983 to 1992. There are three super slices of poptasticness here; Bananarama’s glorious cover of Shocking Blue’s Venus, Amazulu’s self-fulfilling Too Good To Be Forgotten and Bucks Fizz wonderful back-from-the-crash epic New Beginning (Mamba Seyra). Three tracks are missing from this reissue: David Bowie’s ‘Absolute Beginners’, ‘On My Own’ (Patti Labelle And Michael McDonald) and The Real Roxanne’s Bang Zoom (Let’s Go Go). Due to the higher cost of pressing vinyl and the limited time they are available, they are at least three times more expensive than their compact disc counterparts.

Queen had already appeared on volumes 2, 3, 4, 6 and the Christmas album so it was expected that A Kind Of Magic would feature on Now 7. They try and kid people into believing that they're exactly the same as the original albums, but they're not. Some dispute over whether Big Country is the right mix although I have listened to both single and album mix on YouTube and I can't tell them apart. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Since its inception, the series has captivated audiences in numerous countries, including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, expanding its reach far and wide.it doesn’t have the promo mix of ‘Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots Of Money)’ 3:20, it’s the (Full Length Original Seven-Inch) 4:37. track was a good coup for the compilers given that Freedom, Careless Whisper and I’m Your Man featured on the Hits series. The Germans and Dutch were much more proactive in this regard with CDs of V/A comps emerging from 1984. 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. In terms of the sleeve, the words "32 Top Chart Hits" have been removed for obvious reasons, but also UB40 are also absent from the front cover despite their song still being on the album.

In the age of discovery, fans trust NOW to bet right on artists who are ready to take the next step. Great blog though, as I’ve been going through my old 80s compilations recently, this is essential reading for me. One of them starts the second side – Chris De Burgh’s Lady In Red – which was still climbing the charts as the sleeve went to press.Due to licensing issues, these re-compiled versions often use alternative mixes such as album versions. Initially, a special edition of a Now compilation was quite rare, and between 1994 and 2002, there weren't any released at all. In November 2018, the Now team took over the " 100 Hits" brand from Demon Music Group, and in 2019 and 2020, the Special Editions series was effectively rested while 24 different Now 100 Hits compilations were issued in very quick succession, until the end of November 2020. The only way to hear the early Nows on CD is to rip a near-mint vinyl copy [there’s still a few out there]. UK series, comprising: compact discs (CD), magnetic audio cassettes (AC), vinyl ( LP), VHS tape, DVD, and on other short-lived formats.