NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC! NOW YEARBOOK 198380 TRACK 4CD W/28 PAGE HARDBACK BOOK & VERY LIMITED 43 TRACK TRANSLUCENT RED VINYL 3LP SETCELEBRATING THE FIRST YEAR OF ‘NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC’ 1983 WITH 80 TRACKS FEATURING THE POLICE, DURAN DURAN, SPANDAU BALLET, CULTURE CLUB, ELTON JOHN BILLY JOEL, U2, THE HUMAN LEAGUE, THE CURE, LIONEL RICHIE, EURYTHMICS, TINA TURNER, GENESIS AND MANY MANY MOREOFFICIAL PRESS RELEASENEWS PROVIDED BY JMSPR NOW YEARBOOK 1983 is the new 80 track 4CD & strictly limited edition 43 track triple translucent red vinyl set from NOW That’s What I Call Music. 1983 was a watershed year for pop music, the first CDs went on sale, the UK charts were compiled electronically for the first time, MTV turned British acts like The Police, Duran Duran, Culture Club and Spandau Ballet into global megastars and the first NOW album was released which changed the way we listened to music forever. As NOW YEARBOOK 1983 proves, it was undoubtedly one of the greatest ever years for pop music. NOW YEARBOOK 1983 presents a stellar selection of the years biggest and best-loved hits, alongside enduring and well-loved classics. Featuring 80 tracks on 4 CD’s, NOW YEARBOOK 1983 is available as a limited edition one run only deluxe hardback book-style package featuring a 28-page booklet that includes a summary of 1983, a track by track guide, a quiz and original singles artwork. In a first for NOW there is also a strictly limited edition 3LP translucent red vinyl set featuring 43 handpicked tracks. 1983 saw British artists achieving unprecedented success across the world with ‘Every Breath You Take’ from The Police being the year’s biggest seller in the U.S., and ‘Karma Chameleon’ from Culture Club having that honour in the U.K. In addition, future superstars acts were having their first breakthrough hits, including U2, Eurythmics, Wham!, The Cure & New Order. 1983 was a signature year for more established artists scoring their biggest ever hits: Bonnie Tyler had a global smash with ‘Total Eclipse Of The Heart’, Billy Joel’s ‘Uptown Girl’ introduced his biggest ever selling album in the U.K., Lionel Richie’s ‘All Night Long’ was the year’s feel-good track, Elton John’s ‘I’m Still Standing’ was an instant classic on release, and Tina Turner returned with her first-ever UK solo top ten hit ‘Let’s Stay Together’, which would lead to the huge success of the ‘Private Dancer’ album the following year. 1983 also saw huge hits from Genesis, Donna Summer, Mike Oldfield, Joan Armatrading, Robert Plant, and huge three superstar duet hits; Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes’ theme from ‘An Officer And A Gentleman’, ‘Up Where We Belong’, the stunning collaboration between Robert Flack & Peabo Bryson on ‘Tonight I Celebrate My Love’ and the Bee Gees penned ‘Islands In The Stream’ from Dolly Parton & Kenny Rogers. 1983 was the year when artists on the fringes of the chart started to achieve mainstream success, such as The Cure, & Echo And The Bunnymen. Former punk/new-wave chart regulars Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Stranglers, Public Image Limited, and Elvis Costello were also seeing renewed success. Synthesised/Synth Pop started to dominate the charts with continued to dominate with Tears For Fears, The Human League, Heaven 17 and Howard Jones all having a hit-packed year. 1983 was also the year that electro-dance music began to break through with songs like Freeez’s IOU, Malcolm McLaren’s Double Dutch, Hey You The Rock Steady Crew and New Order delivered the genre-defining classic, and a truly iconic 12” single, Blue Monday. The break-out stars of 1980-1982 were still going strong with big hits from Madness, Adam Ant, Altered Images, Bananarama, and the first solo song from Nick Heyward. These sat alongside classic tracks that endure to this day; Toto’s ‘Africa’, UB40’s ‘Red Red Wine’ and Luther Vandross’ ‘Never Too Much’. Bringing 1983 to a close NOW YEARBOOK 1983 features the Christmas #1 from The Flying Pickets with their cover of Yazoo’s ‘Only You’ and ‘2000 Miles’ from Pretenders, which nearly 40 years later is still regarded as one of the all-time classic Christmas songs NOW YEARBOOK 1983 features 80 songs that reflect the charts in the year that NOW began and celebrates the huge hits that are still played on the radio today, alongside some of the lesser-heard but equally cherished tracks. NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC NOW YEARBOOK 1983 LIMITED EDITION 80 TRACK 4CD 28 PAGE HARDBACK BOOK VERY LIMITED 43 TRACK TRANSLUCENT RED 3LP SET 80 TRACK 4CD DIGIPAK RELEASED 25th JUNE 2021 NOW YEARBOOK 1983 4CD SET TRACKLISTING CD1 CD 2: CD 3: CD 4: NOW YEARBOOK 1983 STRICTLY LIMITED 3LP TRANSLUCENT RED VINYL SET TRACKLISTING LP 1 – Side A: LP 1 – Side B: LP 2 – Side A: LP 2 – Side B: Kajagoogoo - Too Shy LP 3 – Side A: LP 3 – Side B: NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MUSIC - NOW YEARBOOK 1983 LIMITED EDITION 80 TRACK 4CD 28 PAGE HARDBACK BOOK, VERY LIMITED 43 TRACK TRANSLUCENT RED 3LP SET, 80 TRACK 4CD DIGIPAK RELEASED 25th JUNE 2021
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