Tears For Fears

NOW Music is proud to present NOW That’s What I Call Unforgettable – Out Jan 26th! 84 tracks across 4CDs, showcasing some of the most beloved hits from the best artists across six decades. With too many to mention them all, this is an album where the track list alone really speaks for itself.

Master mixer Ben Liebrand has been busy again selecting and mastering 40 gems from the late 70s and 80s for the new Grand 12-inches. All in the special, long versions with a sublime sound quality such as the disco Classics.

Greatest Ever! Electric Eighties is a budget three-CD compilation that features 59 tracks from the 1980s. The bulk of the collection falls a little left of the dial, and highlights synth pop and new wave along with instrumental keyboard standards like Herbie Hancock's "Rockit" and the themes from Beverly Hills Cop ("Axel F") and Miami Vice ("Crockett’s Theme"). Much of the collection pools from the big-hooked pop music of one-hit wonders, such as the Waitresses' "I Know What Boys Like," the Buggles' "Video Killed the Radio Star," Animotion's "Obsession," Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)," and Taco's "Puttin' on the Ritz." As eclectic as music was in the '80s, this set does a nice job of pulling it all together into a solid anthology where the synthesizer takes priority.

80’s music remains as popular as ever and this 3CD, 60 track collection highlights some of the greatest hits of all time, including 24 UK Chart No. 1 singles!Disc 1 kicks off with three of the biggest tracks of the decade - all sounding as fresh today as they did then - from Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Dead Or Alive and The Human League.Synth pop is well represented from Soft Cell, Visage, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark and Japan as is timeless pop from Tears For Fears, Nik Kershaw, ABC, Paul Young, Haircut 100 and Culture Club.Steve Winwood’s ‘Higher Love’ (recently a hit again by Kygo & Whitney Houston), Malcolm McLaren’s ground-breaking ‘Double Dutch’ and Roxy Music’s exquisite ‘Avalon’ all feature alongside Number 1’s from Men At Work, Billy Ocean and Whitney Houston’s first chart-topper ’Saving All My Love For You’.

1-2-3: The 80s – Discover 60 Fab Favourite #1s, #2s and #3s across the 80s. Includes Philip Bailey & Phil Collins, Dead Or Alive, Whitney Houston, Tears for Fears, Kim Wilde, Kool & The Gang, Toto, Donna Summer, Aswad, Billy Ocean, Culture Club, Soft Cell and Blondie. 3CDs packaged in an attractive fold out card digipack.

Featuring 80 tracks on 4 CD’s – available as a limited edition of 5000 units 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…
Celebrating the first year of ‘NOW That’s What I Call Music’ – 1983. ‘Now Yearbook’ presents a stellar selection of 1983’s biggest and best hits… huge chart hits from the year, alongside enduring and well-loved classics…

Every episode of BBC Radio 2’s popular Sounds Of The 80s show takes listeners on a journey back to a well-loved decade with its distinctive musical landscape. Hosted by Gary Davies (and formerly Sara Cox) the show delves into the various genres that made the 80’s so musically diverse from classic and alternative pop to rock, dance and hip-hop. UMC and the BBC have teamed up to compile a set of official Sounds Of The 80s branded collections that will showcase the decade’s fabulous sounds in three bite-size chunks.

Music is shaped by the time and place it’s created… And in the 80s changes in politics, technology and culture came together to produce an explosion of new sounds that have come to define a generation. The importance and continued popularity of the 80s can’t be underestimated, from the pioneering producers of synthesised music like The Human League, Gary Numan and Giorgio Moroder to the immortal David Bowie. In addition, there are the brilliant electronic pop sounds of Soft Cell, Yazoo, Tears For Fears, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, Boy George and Visage… Play just one of these epoch defining tracks and you can feel the electricity of the era. And then there are the sounds which are uniquely British; from The Cure, New Order, Dream Academy and Black to Spandau Ballet and Bryan Ferry. These bands/artists perfectly summarise the mood of 80s Britain. Chilled Electronic 80s brings to life an alternative side of the decade; One of equal wonder to the dance floor electro classics but also of chilled cool. Over 3CDs, these classic laid back tracks chart the birth of modern chill-out, chilled dance and electronic today… So sit back, relax and drift back in time as Ministry of Sound presents… Chilled Electronic 80s.

Im Gonna Be is a song written and performed by Scottish duo The Proclaimers, and first released as the lead single from their album Sunshine on Leith. You Spin Me Round is a song by British band Dead or Alive on their album Youthquake. The song was the first UK number-one hit by the Stock Aitken Waterman production trio. She Drives Me Crazy is a song recorded by group Fine Young Cannibals. Everybody Wants to Rule the World is a song by English band Tears for Fears. It was their seventh Top chart hit, peaking at number two. Footloose is a song co-written and recorded by American singer-songwriter Kenny Loggins. The Way You Make Me Feel was written and co-produced by Jackson, and produced by Quincy Jones.