NOW Thats What I Call Music! 7

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Simply Red and Nu Shooz appear in longer album versions than the radio edits that originally appeared. July 2019) re-issued on 2-CD - 28 tracks with only Bob Marley and the Wailers and Gary Glitter missing.

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. 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.These were all released on CD and magnetic cassette, but with the 1993 and 1994 volumes also being released on the vinyl format.

We sign off with two smooth soul numbers; Aurra’s magical You And Me Tonight with its dual-interplay and the sweet duet On My Own from Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald. Maybe the thing that stops this reissue being a complete disaster is some of the mixes that were expected to be wrong are actually correct although not all. Component parts came into the studio in large numbers so it was always chaos in Abbey Road with packages of master tapes arriving the whole time so not everything always went exactly to plan. Released in association with the Official Chart Company to "celebrate 70 years of the official UK singles chart".and has a ridge around the edge of the labels, this issue has smooth labels with no ridge around the and was pressed by EMI Records. The inaugural album graced the United Kingdom's music scene in 1983, with the United States following suit in 1998. 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). The sleeve and inner labels make no reference to the track; it appears right after Side 3, track 8 [Simply Red’s strong slow set mainstayer Holding Back The Years]. Some of them have unique track listings and are not related to similarly themed collections already issued on compact disc, however, more recent releases have been 'selections' taken from a larger CD collection (Rock, for example).

Due to licensing issues, these re-compiled versions often use alternative mixes such as album versions. I hadn’t actually noticed before that it was a different version of ‘Opportunities’ (in fact I didn’t even know there was one, not being a big PSB fan) but that is another selling point for Now 7 which is a pretty good one.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. Originally, the series captured extended 12" mixes of dance hits of the time, but from 1991 onwards, all Now Dance compilations featured 7" edits with only occasional extended versions or mixes included. while on 1986’s Now 7 we got treated to the Alternative 7” of Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money). For the 30th anniversary of Now in 2013 and the release of Now 100 in Summer 2018, the first Now album was re-compiled and re-issued. Another strand of the Now Yearbook series, in August 2022, is the somewhat experimental release of a limited edition, extended play, 7" vinyl single, containing 2 tracks each from the 1983 and 1984 Yearbooks.

Irrespective of the source, all of our collectables meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.Each release is issued as a limited edition mini-hardback book, with the CDs in sleeves forming the pages of the ' yearbook' which contains an introductory overview of the year, original 7" single artwork, trivia, chart positions and a quiz. The latter contains a new retro-70s Now logo design and artwork which complements its 80s sister Yearbook series. UB40’s Sing Our Own Song is a pleasant interlude before Sly Fox’s raunchy and suggestive Let’s Go All The Way blasts out of the speakers. 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. According to our music teacher at the time, they had compiled the album and had all the sleeves and inlay cards pressed, when Queen stepped forward and said: “Hang on!