To Rule The Waves

The Now That’s What I Call Music team are effectively issuing a companion 3CD set to Now Yearbook 1980-1984: The Final Chapter, itself a companion to the ten previous Yearbook releases covering those five years.The ‘Extra’ version of Yearbook 1980-1984 is, as usual, a 3CD set in a card sleeve and this one features 63 “essential hits” from the period. Remarkably, the early 1980s can handle what is in effect a ‘fourth level’ of examination (Yearbook > Yearbook Extra > Final Chapter > Final Chapter Extra) and this is far from ‘the dregs’ of the era with loads of classic pop hits from Queen, Eurythmics, Pretenders, Elvis Costello, The Smiths, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Japan, Heaven 17, Level 42, Nik Kershaw, XTC, Elton John and more.

"DRIVEN BY THE 80s serves up 100 tracks of pure 80s pleasure. The 1980s were a golden decade for popular music. Delivering an eclectic mix of styles, that spawned everything from electro and new wave to punk and hip-hop, dance to alternative. Driven By The 80s includes big hitters across 5 CDs; Pop classics from the likes of Kylie Minogue, Kim Wilde, Culture Club, Salt-n-Pepa through to Synth-pop from Human League, Heaven 17 and Japan. Who doesn’t love the 80s? So dust off those wayfarer sunglasses, and lose yourself in the decade that was, this is a must have collection for all those Driven by The 80s."

It’s time to celebrate an amazing decade for pop music – as popular today as it was back then…and with so many fantastic hits to choose from we had to make this a 100 track selection across 5 CDS including over 50 #1 singles. Time to immerse yourself in the decade that never stops legwarmers on it’s: ‘NOW That’s What I Call The 80s’. The material is designed and signed as a reference on your choice of several exchangers file.

Cnut, or Canute, is one of the great 'what ifs' of English history. The Dane who became King of England after a long period of Viking attacks and settlement, his reign could have permanently shifted eleventh-century England's rule to Scandinavia. Stretching his authority across the North Sea to become king of Denmark and Norway, and with close links to Ireland and an overlordship of Scotland, this formidable figure created a Viking Empire at least as plausible as the Anglo-Norman Empire that would emerge in 1066.