NOW Decades - The Anniversary Collection

2003 looked like just another year until the people behind the NOW series brought us this!
NOW Decades
The Now compilation CD’s to most people have been around forever but when this was released we were reminded that a mere 20 years earlier they didn't even exist!
The release itself compiles of 3cds. Every song here reached number one in the UK charts between 1983 and 2003.... .
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Catalogue no.CDNOW1985 ARTIST SONG TITLE XTRAs?
Track01 Dire Straits Money for nothing 	Listen out for Sting on backing vocals
Track02 Feargal Sharkey A good heart 	Written by Maria McKee of Show me Heaven fame
Track03 Eurythmics There must be an angel playing with my heart 	Their only no.1?
Track04 Prince 1999 	No.2 Jan85
Track05 Talking Heads Road to nowhere 	Biggest ever hit for the Heads
Track06 Kate Bush Running up that hill 	10th top 30 hit for Kate
Track07 Fine Young Cannibals Johnny come home
Track08 UB40/Chrissy Hynde I got you babe 	20 years after Sonny&Chers original made the top this version did so as well
Track09 Bryan Ferry Slave to love
Track10 Phil Collins One more night 	In April 85 Phil had this and what other song in the top 20?
Track11 Elton John Nikita 	Very nearly Eltons first no.1 but stalled at no.3
Track12 The Cars Drive 	This made no.5 in 84 and no.4 in 85
Track13 Marillion Kayleigh
Track14 John Parr St Elmos fire 	Theme from movie of same name
Track15 Starship We built this city
Track16 Huey Lewis & the News The power of love 	From the film Back to the Future
Track17 Katrina & the waves Walking on sunshine
Track18 Gary Moore & Phil Lynott Out in the fields 	Made no.5 in June
Track19 Kirsty MacColl A new England
Track20 Tears for Fears Everybody wants to rule the world 	Original version. See Now86 for rerelease
Track21 A-HA Take on me 	One of the great no.2s of the 80s
Track22 Duran Duran A view to a kill 	Theme to James Bond film of the same name
Track23 Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy Kiss me
Track24 Pet Shop Boys West End Girls
Track25 Go West We close our eyes 	April 85 made no.5
Track26 Paul Hardcastle 19 	Anti Vietnam song that made no.1 in May/June
Track27 Midge Ure If I was
Track28 Simple Minds Alive and Kicking 	No.7 in '85 and no.6 in '92
Track29 Scritti Politti The word girl
Track30 Jimmy Nail Love dont live here anymore 	Not just an actor
Track31 Foreigner I want to know what love is 	No.1 in Jan/Feb
Track32 Phyllis Nelson Move Closer 	One of the greatest one hit wonders ever?
Track33 Whitney Houston Saving all my love for you 	Her first ever Uk hit
Track34 Ashford & Simpson Solid
Track35 Simply Red Moneys too tight (to mention) 	Mick Hucknalls first ever hit
Track36 Eurythmics & Aretha Franklin Sisters are doin it for themselves 	Sometime this is just listed as Annie Lennox with Aretha but on this NOW it says the Eurythmics.
Track37 James Ingram & Michael McDonald Yah mo B there 	No.12 in Feb
Track38 Colonel Abrams Trapped 	This was dance music at its best in 1985
Track39 Level 42 Something about you
Track40 Wham! Everything she wants 	The other side of the double A sided Last Christmas

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